Troy,
You are exactly correct. The update could take on form or the other,
or both, depending on the needs of the group.
Mike
On Dec 14, 2007 11:16 AM, Troy Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> If I follow your logic here, please correct me if I'm wrong, would that mean
> I could subscribe to a document that say John has uploaded and when he makes
> a revision to it I could see some type of notification of it (RSS, email,
> etc)?
>
> -t
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Mike McLeod wrote:
> One of the reasons we built SWAP was so that we could create
> customized information products depending on the needs of the client.
> Since the architecture is open and transparent, it's easy enough to
> construct whatever sort of information type would be most useful. For
> example, the system can generate email messages, it can generate RSS
> feeds, it can allow users to subscribe to particular threads and
> receive updates on just those - or it can do ALL of those things. The
> data can be repurposed into pretty much any form necessary.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2007 10:51 AM, Troy Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> John,
>
> The presentation yesterday by Trevor Barnes showed that you could subscribe
> to a thread, or a whole forum, and receive email when there are new posts
> either as they happen, daily digest or weekly digest, so yes. Seems that
> might still give others the "push" communication they like from the list
> serve, and then if they want to respond clicking on the link to take them to
> the forum.
>
> Not sure if SWAP has that or not.
>
> -t
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:27 AM, John Gorentz wrote:
> Do any of these bulletin board systems give you the ability to post as well
> as receive messages via e-mail? (I just now took a quick look at the
> vbulletin faq and didn't see obvious evidence of such a feature.)
>
> John Gorentz
>
> At 01:19 AM 12/14/2007, Peter J Murray wrote:
> To complicate things a bit.
>
> PHPbb3 is now gold and out. http://www.phpbb.com
> vBulletin 3.7 will be adding several SWAP like features.
> http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249460
> Being added: thread tagging, user created groups, improved member profile
> page, and more.
>
> As evidenced by the flurry of messages on NAG after the meeting, despite
> votes to the contrary, it seems that asynchronous communications are
> important to the group, and a forum would be a great way to keep our
> respective mailboxes clean, and still engage in lively discussions. As
> someone else mentioned, it would do 80% of what we want.
>
> Peter Murray
> James Madison
>
> Ehren Benson wrote:
>
>
>
> Troy,
>
>
>
> What I mentioned was PHPbb3 (version 3). This is an option that's on the
> same functional level of Vbulletin, however offers (I think) more features
> both for administrators, moderators and users. Of course the other benefit
> is it is open source. It also has built in LDAP and other directory connect
> ability. As I mentioned RC8 of it just came out December 1, so the full
> version should be available sometime late this month or in January.
>
>
>
> I would love to see a forum at least spring out of this that may be a bit
> more user friendly than an email list, and given the fact that something of
> its nature is fairly simple to get going that even if it's not the top rank
> could rank high in the ease of implementation.
>
>
>
> I too was surprised that there were so many "other" votes and not many
> "other" options brought forward when the floor was opened up.
>
>
>
> /Ehren
>
>
>
> Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
>
>
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> *From:* MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On
> Behalf Of *Troy Murray
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> *Sent:* Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:07 PM
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> *To:* [log in to unmask]
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> *Subject:* [MSUNAG] Collaboration Option "D" - Other
>
>
>
> This morning at the MSU IT Exchange we were shown three collaboration tools,
> vBulletin, SWAP and Angel. During the voting we were asked which one we'd
> choose, along with an option "D - Other". As I remember, there were a number
> of votes for "D - Other", but when it was opened up to suggestions there was
> only one, PHPvB I believe.
>
>
>
> This lead me to wonder why "D - Other" was voted so much; was it because
> what was seen in the three solutions wasn't liked, because it was felt there
> is a better solution but not sure what it is or felt there is a better
> solution but were hesitant to mention it during the session?
>
>
>
> Just curious what your thoughts were.
>
>
>
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