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Re: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community
Subject:Re: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community From:Lisa Wright <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:29:28 -0700
(Tried to post last night but forgot about the repeated text issue.)
HATT and other good Yahoo groups not withstanding, my biggest
frustration with Yahoo Groups is the search (in)capability. What kind of
list would we have if we had such a pathetic search tool that Whirlers
everywhere were deprived of the "check the archives" response???? LOL!
Seriously, Rays, you've built a great community here. It will be
interesting to see what sort of transition comes out of it. It's very
funny that so many posters have gone straight to the issue of tools,
even though it's not broken, it just needs new stewardship. I don't have
much constructive to add to that thanks, except to say that there are
numerous resources and examples of online communities going through such
transitions. The Framers list, HATT, www. pinecam.com, various sites run
by Derek Powazek (www.fray.com, www.designforcommunity.com), who also
wrote a book on communities. Many of these transitions are accompanied
by drama, I guess because change is hard. Hopefully this one will be
relatively drama free. After all, change and renewal are positive, too.
Lisa
Greg Thompson wrote:
> For example?
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>
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> Karen wrote:
> Oh, please, not Yahoo! I've belonged to several lists hosted at Yahoo,
> and personally and across the lists there have been multiple and
> differing problems.
>
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> Karen L. Zorn
> Zorn Technologies, Inc.
> Mesa, AZ
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