Feedback About OnlineGroups.Net
From:
ETJ Kansai
Date:
May 05 07:04 UTC
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Hello Dan,
Having all the groups on a single site would be great. Having all the
groups public may or may not be a good thing. Some of the groups are
limited to certain segments of our membership (for example school owners,
coordinators, etc.) and the discussions, especially for the administrative
group, need to be kept private.
Having advertising on the site and in messages isn't a big concern, so if
something could be worked out in this regard, that might work.
>I'd be very
> interested to hear non-native English-speakers get on with it.
>
I've set up a small local group on onlinegroups.net and will run it by some
of the Japanese members to see how they manage the registration process.
>our sites do
> support Unicode, which makes it possible to display a wide range of
> character sets.
Most of the posts so far have been in English, but having the ability to
post in Japanese would be great. Again, I'll do a test run with some of the
Japanese members and see what happens.
>Looks like you've been reading our design goals! Please let me know if I
> can help you with this.
You've been plenty of help so far, Dan. Thank you. Not sure exactly how to
proceed, to be honest, so any help would be appreciated.
What I'll do is get moving on the local group I've set up, test it out with
our local membership (about 90 members) and see how it works, then, once we
establish a workable system, I'll make a proposal to the national group.
One issue that will probably come up is what to do with the archive of posts
on the yahoogroup. The archives are a great reference for newer members.
Not sure if there's any way to export from yahoo and import into
onlinegroups.net
Regards,
Kaj Schwermer
Ps. For more information on ETJ as a whole, please have a look at our
website:
http://www.eltnews.com/ETJ/
On 5/5/08 3:30 PM, "Dan Randow" <<email obscured>> wrote:
>
> Hi Kaj,
>
> With our service, all the ETJ groups would be on a single site. Would
> that be an advantage to you?
>
> If your groups were all public, then your OnlineGroups.Net site would be
> free.
>
> Registration is a challenge on any system, but we have recently improved
> our registration so that it is fairly simple (we think). I'd be very
> interested to hear non-native English-speakers get on with it.
>
>> We're looking at onlinegroups.net and Google groups as possible alternatives
>> to our existing arrangement. Something that would provide the convenience
>> and ease of use of an email-based system (but without having to go through a
>> lengthy registration process in a foreign language) with the power of a
>> traditional online forum.
>
> Looks like you've been reading our design goals! Please let me know if I
> can help you with this.
>
> By the way, do you have any requirement to support Japanese character
> sets? While we do not yet offer a multi-lingual interface, our sites do
> support Unicode, which makes it possible to display a wide range of
> character sets. (If you are interested in testing this, try posting some
> Hiragana ひらがな, Kanji 漢字 or Katakana カタカナ to this group, and
> viewing it on the Web.)
>
> cheers
>
> Dan