Forum and Grouptalk

[Adam Blatner]

Okay, responses...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
To: <list at grouptalkweb.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: Forum and Grouptalk


> 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.
>      AB: Yes, I just went, and the program /my computer remembered my password..  so I 
> got on, and looked around for about 40 minutes, made a few comments...

> 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.
       ab: maybe a handful, or two is what I saw... but okay...
>
> 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.
       ab: yes
>
> 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.
>       ab: Okay, I'll try to be a team player.


       One thing that's interesting.. I don't know the email etiquette for.. is when 
someone like a barcroft puts out several paragraphs, I sometime wish I could intersperse 
my comments...
    but that's not possible, so it becomes difficult to write a point-by-point commentary, 
agreeing here, modifying my position there, disagreeing then, agreeing with that with 
modifications, etc.
       It poses an interesting process for audience, too. I'm not sure what to say.

    About the sociatry dialogue, for instance.. I certainly agree with the general 
sentiment and find it difficult to disagree with platitudes, i.e., noble-sounding 
generalizations. However, I generally prefer some effort at greater specificity.
    but sometimes I'll just let go...

       So, I'll try for a while and we shall see.

Warmly, Adam
> 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
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