Re: MUG Online Chats?
Re: MUG Online Chats?
- Subject: Re: MUG Online Chats?
- From: Deborah Shadovitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:44:03 -0700
On 10/14/04 5:19 PM, "Jim Foster" <email@hidden> wrote:
> For the past year or more, my experience has been that there may be
> only a single digit number of participants, including Trish and Chuck,
> on any given evening. As I say, I probably make at least half of the
> sessions, our friend from Beijing used was a pretty regular attendee
> for quite a long time before he perhaps took a good look at his watch
> and decided that SLEEP was a more vital requirement, and lately we have
> often had someone from the United Kingdom join in despite a similar
> problem with the time zones. But often there are only a handful of
> participants from the U.S. of A.
> I have some ideas why participation in online chats may be lower, which
> I can list below. Maybe some of you could chime in and confirm whether
> any of these affect YOU, and at the same time maybe you can add other
> issues which have not yet occurred to me.
>
> Some reasons which have occurred to me are:
>
> 1 - some folks find online text chats frustrating because they or
> others have relatively slow keyboarding skills, i.e. a lot of time is
> invested for a relatively small amount of information exchanged;
While I can see that for some, simply being there and following along is
worthwhile so I hope that would not prevent a person from attending.
> 2 - if chats are not moderated well (something I do not believe is true
> here!), online text chats can be confusing because several discussion
> streams can get initiated simultaneously;
I agree. Not an issue with WWB or Trish.
> 3 - the TIMING of the sessions is not suitable, i.e. too close to
> dinner hour in the west or too close to bedtime in the east;
That's me.
Whenever I see Trish's post I check to see if I can make it. It's always on
a night I cannot make. :(
Trish does a great job and I have great respect for her.
> 4 - one doesn't find that they are getting value out of the time
> invested; or
>
> 5 - people somehow miss any emails or announcements and just become
> unaware that the chats are occurring.
My guess is that's the other big one. It's true for me.
> 6 - Oh yes, one last possibility: People are just too BUSY with other
> stuff! (I have to admit that I retired on August 1st, so perhaps some
> would argue that I now have more TIME to participate. All I can say to
> that idea is wait until YOU retire and see if you still think you have
> more time!)
I'm thinking that the inspirations gained might be a time-saver in the end.
I don't think I'll ever get to retire. But you've inspired me to put the
event on my iCal and give up one of my meetings or rollerskating nights here
and there to attend. :)
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Deborah Shadovitz http://www.shadovitz.com
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