Re: membership and participation (was RE: ghost town)

[Simon North <simonxml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

About 20 years I got fired for posting to techwirl. Literally marched off the premises for "disclosing classified information" (someone on the list was curious about the company I worked for so I copied a few paras out of one of our public publicity brochures). Luckily, my dismissal was quashed by the court and I stayed on for another couple of years. 

I used to post a lot, but for the past 12 years or so I've only listened. The stuff I'm doing now - auto generated code documentation, wiki on a stick to replace online help, agile software development, is so specific that I doubt anyone would be interested. 

Simon.

> On Feb 13, 2014, at 23:47, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> The last two places I had contracts with had their networks set to block
> all posting to web forums under the heading of "social networking."  You
> could read the TECHWR-L forum but not post to it.  In order to post, you
> had to justify a business need *for the company.*  Since both contracts
> were very short term and I was mostly off-site, there wasn't much point in
> doing that, but it might help explain lower traffic levels, especially
> during normal M-F office hours.
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> My vote would DEFINITELY be forum out of all the avenues I have experience
>> with. If I want to chit chat with like-minded individuals, twitter -- but
>> for this type of thing, forum.
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