On 11 Jun 2013, at 09:03 , Andreas Wagner Andreas.Wagner@em.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
To possibly provoke some comments, here are a few intuitions of mine. Please contradict and challenge (or confirm) based on your experiences, or your intuitions:
- Blogs are easily accessible and can be viewed/read comfortable, but they tend to have a restriced set of authors. Can anyone imagine applying for authorship rights to a blog administration in order to just pose one question or to advertise one conference?
I find blogs not the right tool for community-building -- and possibly also becoming a bit old fashioned!
- Mailing lists are not subscribed to because they look old-fashioned. Being somewhat nerdy myself, they are my personal favorites, however.
Me too. :) But an arrangement that combines, or offers options of either, mailing-list and forum interfaces (e.g. Yahoo and Google Groups both do this, more or less) seems all right. Likewise, a forum that sends me email alerts about new posts or replies is OK.
Cheers, Carl
-- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com mailto:carl.anderson@unisabana.edu.co http://unisabana.academia.edu/CarlAnderson http://laclil.unisabana.edu.co/ Department of Languages & Cultures Universidad de La Sabana Chía, Colombia