Beta response
Dear, Alumni Blogger,
I have two immediate first impressions………Wow, this is pretty neat and at first glance it probably does what we want it to be able to do for us……..my second and stronger impression is , will it keep people away because of the layers or stuff one needs to move through to actually communicate? I’m guessing that response might be surprising to you as this is very much your domain but for a more tech adverse person/personality I could see where it might be an impediment and I would be interested in what the response of others might be. Right now or as of this morning I could just go to your previous site and everything I wanted to see was available from the first page even after you added the welcome section as a new addition, and now I must navigate around to get to the place I want to go in order to communicate by just looking for something and or by setting up and account in order to write an email or blog. This is not a criticism from me only an observation. I know that I would go through the process as I’m pretty excited about it…..but it does make me wonder. I have a similar response as when we first started to talk about organizing an event for next winter, which is before going to too much trouble setting thing up, does it first make sense to open “Yesterday’s” site up to the masses and see what kind of response we get from the masses to know if all of this work you have started to do is worthy of the audience? I thought you weren’t going to start this for a week or two……..You are such a treat!
I didn’t really have any trouble navigating around nor did I try to register yet to set up a Google blog account. Is that something you wanted me to do in this process?
Now I’m going to call you and do this by voice all over again.
ttfn
j
posted by Mt Pleasant High School '67 Alumni @ 8:30 PM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
John...
What I like about this setup is that for the READ_ONLY crowd, they can post a message from the AddOn website without going through creation of a personalized Google Account.
For the WRITERS, they can do the same. No Google Account required.
For the PROLIFIC WRITERS, they will soon tire of embedding their name into the messages and comment to identify who they are. For these mainstream contributors, it is worth using the GoogleAccount so that their messages are tagged with their names automatically. (I am guessing but I'll bet many of the pro-writers have been blogging for sometime elsewhere and will have an existing gmail account)
Will you add a comment? I want to see how the blog will handle a READ_ONLY entry.
What I don't like is the complexity.
The complexity is mostly in becoming familiar with the Google BLOGGER. Others may have mastered different blogging software. Each has its own idiosyncrasies.
B,
Let me try this again now that i have registered as a blog-ie. My original comment that didn't get published stated that I didn't SEE that you had posted three comments to my first email and that I needed to become more familiar with how this all worked. I'm still not clear on the READ-ONLY crowd vs the Google Account which I just registered for. Are you saying that if I go to the ADD on account that I can comment from that location? I tried to leave a comment from this location in the Comment Box but it wouldn't publish before and now that I have registered I think it's going to work.....this will frustrate the uninformed amunst us. I will now fo to the ADd on site to see if that completes my understanding of what you were trying to tell me.
OK,
Now this is becoming a little more fun......no wonder Wittenberg turned me down on my first application :)
B,
Now I see how this works....it will be interesting to see how others react to the different ways of using the site/sites. If I'm an annomoly were are home free, if not we will just haveto construct an instruction page to send out with whatever invitation we mail out to the greater group.
j
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