[AccessD] Moderator Message

I also like the email format. I've been on Access-L since 95 I believe, and
one AccessD since before it
was AccessD. What was it again? Blue Moutain Group? or something like it.

Like Jim's company, my company restricts access to blog sites.

As for the different lists, I like it as it is. I have filters in Gmail all
set up and it works great.




On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Hewson, Jim <JHewson at nciinc.com> wrote:

> I, for one, like the email format.
> Most blogs are hidden from me.  The company I work for restricts access
> to ALL blogs including those by Microsoft.
> They use a proxy server and it filters a LOT of stuff.
> I have found a work around... I use a laptop at work so have to disable
> the locate network connection (Cat5), turn off the connection to proxy
> server, locate the local wireless connection, log on and then sometimes
> I can get to a blog.
> There are some customer sites that also use a proxy to limit employees
> access to the internet.
> Besides, most of the blogs that I have encountered (at work and at home)
> contain little substance and lots of arrogant "experts" that chide the
> questioner.  They do that by answering with responses like:  "We
> discussed this last month. Don't you read all the posts?" or "I am tired
> of answering the  same question - do a search on the archives."
>
> Jim
>
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> Ismert
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:55 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moderator Message
>
>  OK, I've been harping on the way things are, so I want to offer some
> positive suggestions:
>
> 1. Produce web content, not email content.
> Our content needs to be visible to the outside world. A mail digest is
> hidden from search engines. Even the archive is a black hole -- I've
> never
> seen any AccessD post show up on any web search, ever. Someone tell me
> if
> they've ever seen AccessD in even the first ten pages of search results.
>
> 2. Move to a blog format.
> I increasingly rely on blog posts in my technical searches. I appreciate
> that someone has taken the care to produce a cogent post that answers a
> particular topic. Blog posts can be perma-linked, tagged, and
> categorized --
> a huge boon for search engines. You also get a constant, fresh stream of
> new
> content, which boosts search rankings.
> One of the problems with an email thread is that you get: Question,
> debate,
> flames, baiting, then off-topic rambling near the end. Sometimes there
> is an
> answer in there, sometimes not. That's why email-thread format groups
> are my
> last option in search.
> But, if you reframe the email thread as an incubator for a blog post,
> you
> present the opportunity for the person with the best response to
> summarize
> their post as a blog entry. That's easy, because most of the article is
> already written.
> Everyone wins -- blog posters get web exposure, questions get distilled
> into
> a clear and easy-to-follow format, answers get vetted by a community of
> experts, and you gain in search engine rankings which will draw new
> subscribers.
>
> 3. Co-opt Experts Exchange
> It burns me that experts-exchange, AKA 'drooling idiots trying to charge
> money for non-answers', is so dominating in technical search results.
> They
> understand SEO, and are clobbering use in terms of exposure, even if
> they
> have nothing to offer. What a waste!
> We have an incredible pool of talent, that, given convenient tools,
> could
> handily beat expert sex change in terms of quality of content.
>
> But, if we keep hiding our light under a bushel, we really need to
> accept
> that AccessD is a private club of friends who chat about what's going on
> in
> their technical lives, and occasionally answer an Access question, too.
>
> -Ken
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