Wow, what an awesome set of responses. Thank you VERY much. There are consistent opinions in many of the responses. So I hope all of you will forgive if I respond to my own post here with a new sub-thread, and with another blog, as I wanted to keep all of the thoughts together. http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/03/socialmv2.html In summary, what We think about social media is unimportant. What is important is, that is where other people are, so that is where we should be too. I'd be interested to know if this second blog entry prompts any re-consideration.
I recognize that this isn't directly a U2 topic. This is more of an industry topic, of which U2 users are a part. Increasingly, U2 is becoming less associated with the MV industry and more a self-contained industry of its own. I don't think that's the right direction. We all lose personally, and "the industry" suffers, because there are so few common places where MV/Pick users congregate. I'm encouraging people to broaden the horizons rather than furthering the contraction. Our scope as more diversified professionals shouldn't be limited to any one group, or just to U2 groups in different web sites. In this forum in the past, we've discussed the merits of email versus browser-based forums, Usenet, Google Groups, etc. The passionate preferences expressed for all of these media is exactly the same as that expressed, for or against the various social media. I'm suggesting that now the question is not just "which forum" but what other media should we consider in addition to forums? It's almost the next inevitable question ... Twitter is OK for some purposes, not others. Same with LinkedIn, etc. No one medium is good for all purposes. I think everyone should give proper consideration to each venue, individually, on its merits as a tool for providing and receiving specific kinds of information. Your (really really verbose, thankful, and apologetic) colleague :) Tony Gravagno, Nebula Research and Development USA 949-380-1668 Skype: gravagnot http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/TonyGravagno Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
