Re: iSociety chat

Again, these ideas are great. However, we need some warm bodies to help
manage and run these events. We can plan all day long, but we need people's
~time~ more than anything else.

Getting volunteers is difficult. If we had more, we could do more.



Besides, what is actually ~wrong~ with the Fireside chats? Is there a need
to make them like every other webcast? Why is this process not working? If
you are connected to the chat, you see it live, and you get to submit your
own questions. If you cannot connect, you get to read the transcript later
on - which are very informative, IMO.

It seems you are all trying to solve a problem for something that is not
actually broken.

Your feedback is most definitely welcome!



On 8/15/07 3:55 PM, "albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In my opinion, it is inappropriate to expect a customer to "sponsor" this

and "host" SameTime or LiveMeeting on their system.

Sponsoring gets easy when you let the situation get creative. For example
how many of the vendors reading this would be willing to pay $100 to have a
short 10 second splash page at the beginning of the chat proclaiming their
product? A lot I would guess. The problem is that it takes planning (i.e.
who sets up the WebEx, pays the bill, line up sponsors, etc) and if Trevor
is willing to do that I am sure we can get it paid for.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: iSociety chat

Trevor:

In my opinion, it is inappropriate to expect a customer to "sponsor"
this and "host" SameTime or LiveMeeting on their system.
(Just consider the security issues of opening up access and firewalls, etc.)

Since this obviously benefits IBM Corp., I think IBM should provide this
service and host it (at no charge) on one of their big servers.

That's my opinion.

Mark S. Waterbury