Under Construction
Well, I had another look at Yahoo Groups, and they have changed substantially since the last time I looked at using them to power CANWINE.
I'm still not 100% keen on them, but most of my concerns have been addressed: the biggest downer, for me, is losing the real-time interactivity that a blog demands. It's what's happening, we had a nice little readership base that was new from the move, and, to be honest, it's where the web is eventually heading anyway.
A Yahoo Group allows for some of that functionality, but not quite in the same way: I'm also thinking about starting up a CANWINE group in Facebook, if anyone is interested in using that format for real-time wine tasting parties.
So there's still a lot of construction dust (and will be for awhile), and I suggest you wear your hardhat, but you keeners can visit http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/canwine to stick your hands in the wet cement. I will be sending out an email to all currently subscribed members here on the blog to notify them of the shift, and possibly a blanket mailing out to everyone who was on the old list as well but who didn't make the leap here.
I'm still not 100% keen on them, but most of my concerns have been addressed: the biggest downer, for me, is losing the real-time interactivity that a blog demands. It's what's happening, we had a nice little readership base that was new from the move, and, to be honest, it's where the web is eventually heading anyway.
A Yahoo Group allows for some of that functionality, but not quite in the same way: I'm also thinking about starting up a CANWINE group in Facebook, if anyone is interested in using that format for real-time wine tasting parties.
So there's still a lot of construction dust (and will be for awhile), and I suggest you wear your hardhat, but you keeners can visit http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/canwine to stick your hands in the wet cement. I will be sending out an email to all currently subscribed members here on the blog to notify them of the shift, and possibly a blanket mailing out to everyone who was on the old list as well but who didn't make the leap here.
posted by Linda | 8:51 a.m.
1 Comments:
You move quickly... I didn't realize you were wanting to make a change so fast or I would have put in my 2 cents worth for using Google Groups which I find more easy to work with than Yahoo Groups...
Anyhoo... if I had more wine knowledge to share I'd be more of a contributor than a lurker!
I will be happy to follow the group wherever and will now head over to Yahoo Groups to see what's cooking there.
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