[DM-MUG] A blog for the group.

[Ray Bowler]

Jon,

My comments are mainly to get response and help clarify my thinking.  My first concern is  what use would we have for it as a group? If we were still meeting it would be an easy way to update our meeting topic or right now we could have your program topics in a running series to keep people informed. Would there be other uses? You mentioned hosting it at wordpress.com (the cost is now $12/year) and I am wondering if you just mean the blog or the whole DMMUG site. If we had a blog could we include it in the present site as a link or have the blog and the web site be a link from it?  One use I can see for a blog is that this conversation would be a lot easier with one.

Ray B.

On Jan 18, 2011, at Jan 18, 201111:37 AM, Jon Thompson wrote:

> No, you wouldn't want to replace the mailing list with anything. A
> blog would be article-type submissions, or it could be used to host a
> static site, but with the ability to dynamically update the content
> without the need to ftp upload anything.
> --
> Jon Thompson
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> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Jon.
>> 
>> I have looked at wordpress.com and it looks interesting.  Questions galore. How would DMMUG use a blog? This is perhaps my main concern. I think that needs to be answered before any of the rest of them.
>> 
>> Later questions: Would it be a replacement for the mailing list and if so how? Could we move www.dmmug.org and have it hosted at Wordpresss.com and then have a blog as a part of it or it as a part of the blog?  When it mentions a limit of 35 users is this the same as the number of people who can comment or is it the number who can originate blogs?
>> 
>> As I look at it I can see an application for my wife and her genealogy.
>> 
>> Ray
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2011, at Jan 17, 20117:58 AM, Jon Thompson wrote:
>> 
>>> I would strongly recommend using wordpress.com over using iWeb if the
>>> website is going to turn into a blog. It's a whopping $9/year  to
>>> point the domain to a wordpress.com domain, and you'll get infinitely
>>> better tools.
>>> --
>>> Jon Thompson
>>> Evolve
>>> www.dmevolve.com
>>> Macintosh IT Management for Small and Large Business
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks to Dennis Adamson's response to an earlier post I was able to use iWeb to create a blog, make entries and then let others make comments.
>>>> The owner of the blog controls the conversation by starting an entry then the discussion can run on. How would having a DMMUG blog help the group?
>>>> 
>>>> Ray Bowler
>>>> rbowler at mchsi.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
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