Re: Website for MAPICS users

["Bob Tenney" <bobtenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks, I estimate that our techy / user mix is currently 70/30. I pick-up a
lot of interesting tidbits from the techy discussions.

You techyies could help create a better balance by telling your user
colleagues about this discussion group and encouraging them to participate.
They really do know how to send and receive e-mails. I have also heard that
many of them know how to press the delete button when messages get too
technical.

According to the guidelines "Any discussion related to MAPICS in particular
or ERP systems
in general is acceptable." Therefore mentioning non-MAPICS "annointed"
products and services seems to be in bounds.

There is a gray area between mentioning and promoting. When I discusssed
this with Dave Shaw, the answer came back that I could mention my books as
long as I did it in response to a previous posting. The way I interpret this
is that it is OK to answer a general ledger interfaces question and then
mention my "MAPICS XA General Ledger Interfaces Book"  as a way to learn
MORE about that topic. It would not be OK to say that you can get the answer
by buying my book or that I provide consulting services in this area.

Bob Tenney
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828-526-8976

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Turbide" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Website for MAPICS users


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> There are really two things that I was looking to accomplish with an
> independent MAPICS website
>
>  - a discussion thread that was more user oriented (vs IT oriented) with
> the particiaption of "experts" to answer  how-to-use type questions
>
>  - a place for third-parties who are not MAPICS 'partners' to promote
their
> products and services
>
> I think this thread is great and would not want to do anything to distract
> from what it does but I see that most of the questions and discussions are
> technical. Seems like end-users could benefit from this same kind of
forum.
>
> Dave Turbide
> dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> message: 1
> date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:37:33 -0400 (EDT)
> from: Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Website for MAPICS users
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> Bob, I tend to agree.
> What would the Web site provide that's not provided here Dave?
> Don
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