congratulations folks…you’ve just gotten your ass kicked!
his point?
because there is no one riding herd on these groups, they are, for the most part…a completely & utterly worthless waste of time.
strong words, to be sure. too strong? no way.
your friendly neighborhood happyfunboy’s productivity skyrocketed the day he flipped every single one of the yahoo groups to daily digest mode. now, he reads them only when someones asks if he saw a certain comment or flame. and even then he complains about being pulled back in a la michael corleone.
i’d argue that the managed services group still offers a lot of value.
as it has from its inception, that group has managed to keep an excellent signal-to-noise ratio, which i chalk up to a combination of the members of that group, the topic at hand & the firm but gentle hand of mastermind, one ms. amy luby.
the few times things have threatened to flare up, they’ve been handled, dealt with & everyone’s been professional about it.
even so…
no amount of moderation in the world can change the fact that the value of any group is the quality of its membership.
a couple of posts ago, i alluded to this fact, when talking about the action pack & the registered partner program.
the diva has been kind enough to keep me from pulling a david banner hulk-out about the issue, but the fact remains:
the reason it folks as a general rule get no respect is it folks themselves
for every good, conscientious, talented it professional…
there are at least 20 jackleg morons whose only talent is fubaring systems til the cows come home.
and if you think that mothership’s continued gutting of the action pack is a sign of respect…
i’ve got some beachfront property here in central alabama to sell you.
as walt kelly’s pogo might say…
that’s right folks. nobody to blame for this turn of events but ourselves.
|| posted by chris under community, it pro, opinion, thumbs down || || ||
[...] There have been a few comments made by respected members of the community regarding the current state of our international network. Vlad talks about how the waters are muddied with those who engage in conversations that they don’t contribute to which helps fuel the ‘noise’ that can be created through endlessly long conversational threads on forums. Chris continues on a similar thread and even David is wondering about the current state of our community… [...]
pingback by UK SMB Girl » Sometimes it’s like pushing concrete… — December 18, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
Agreed HFB. I had to switch off the Yahoo mess a while back myself. I just don’t have the bandwidth anymore for the ‘SMB Drunk Girl‘ watering hole. The value has migrated into the back-channel on IM anyway.
comment by timbarrett — December 18, 2006 @ 3:59 pm
[...] better validation of registered partners & action pack enrollees i’ve mentioned this more times than i care to remember. here’s one idea: make sbsc a minimum requirement for the action pack. there are paths for oem builders & non-builders. i don’t see the big deal with this, altho others will. [...]
pingback by welcome to the funcave » dear mothership aka eric ligman — January 16, 2007 @ 12:36 pm