RE: iSociety Welcome page -- MIDRANGE-L

Aaron,

Those are good points and I'm not trying to argue even if it sounds like
it.  Remember, iSociety is what we as a community make of it.  If we
don't do anything that's what we are going to get.  You will probably
see a bit of COMMON but they are the original hosts/launch assistants.
Being that they are a users group I can live with that.  

I'm not without blame in this following statement but we are all very
good about complaining about the lack of something but we haven't
necessarily put the same effort into being a part of the solution.  As
long as that continues iSociety will always be lacking.

I have some ideas....now if I could only possess true creativity and the
time to do it.......

Michael Crump
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of albartell
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:12 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: iSociety Welcome page

I get the feeling that iSociety "came out" before it should have.  Being
that it is largely a marketing initiative I would consider it lacking.
I
still remember getting a flyer from a "moving ad" at COMMON Miami and I
immediately went out to isociety.org only to find that they didn't own
the
domain yet - ouch.  When I finally figured out how to sign up for it I
was
confused that I needed a COMMON Id to do so, or rather they were going
to
create a COMMON Id for my iSociety membership - very confusing.  Now
when I
click on some links on the isociety.org page I get routed to COMMON.
Why is
COMMON putting their stuff all over everything?  And like Joe is saying,
why
all the links to systemiportal.com?

I don't get it (or rather I catch small tidbits here and there). Too
many
faces/facades.  But maybe they aren't trying to market to me, an iSeries
developer.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:38 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: iSociety Welcome page

From: Trevor Perry

The iSociety Foundation has created a new Welcome page for iSociety. 
You can find it here: http://iSociety.org


Yeah, we noticed, Trevor.  Over 20 links, only 1 to iSociety.  Nearly
all of
the rest are to System i Portal.

Joe