Forum and Grouptalk

[edwschreiber at earthlink.net]

Hi Adam Blatner,

I think you are quite wrong on all counts.

1) As someone who is quite ill at ease with computer-techno-stuff, once I got to the forum I have found it easy to use.

2) Many many people are viewing the ASGPP forum.  If you go to some of the "hot topics" and look on the number of viewers, the numbers are in the hundreds.

3) I find the forum to be easy now, and I enjoy the way it operates.  I can go to a message I posted and change it, or correct it.  And I can track a sequence of posts related to a topic.

4) Athough I love grouptalk and think it serves a purpose, John R and Mike T are urging us to use the forum.  Let's follow that lead for a year and see how it works to draw us closer as a community of practitioners with concerns.   We have nothing to lose other than our resistance.

Ed


Subject:   	forum
Hi, I haven't been back to the forum for a while. How many people aside from
Ed S. and 
Adam M. Barcroft are using it in the last month? Do we have any serious discussions?
     I'm still wary:   1. the process is clumsy, awkward to access and use. 
One needs 
passwords, one needs to go
 to a website. Several additional operations. I told Mike Traynor this.

      2. I have little motivation, because
                 a. I don't sense there are enough people checking in regularly
for me to 
bother saying anything and think it will be read, thought about, responded to..
     b. The people I would like to read my ideas or suggestions are not, to my knowledge,
checking in to either grouptalk or the forum: i.e., all the executive council, even
half 
of the executive council, folks on the Board of Examiners, the  president of the
ASGPP or 
any officers, committee members, other sociometric stars in the organization, etc.
           So what's the point?

   Still, perhaps all the above might change. I've written to Mike Traynor and
John 
Rasberry and others, asking for them to make their email addresses available, suggesting
that they engage in outreach.

      I wrote this a few weeks ago... has anything begun to change?  Warmly, Adam