[Hidden-tech] biznik

[Edbride-PR]

I agree with all these points, although the reason I don't go to HT is not
the difficulty in navigation, it's the lack of urgent need for anything
likely to be found there.

My home page is a web database of editors and analysts, which is the only
site that I'm likely to visit more than once or twice a day. To answer the
question in the third paragraph below, that's where the data that I need for
clients is housed. At one time, this database was on my desktop, but
required such frequent updating that I went with the hosting approach.

I also use LinkedIn and Ryze, though haven't done anything with the latter
in a very long time. LinkedIn seems to show more promise, although I can't
exactly say that it's brought much business.

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bobbi Melville" <bmelville.pgs at verizon.net>

> Weighing in on the HT website issue: I've always found the website to
> be cumbersome and difficult to navigate, so I almost never go there.
> But in thinking about it, I also realize that there are no websites
> that I just go to unless I have a reason to need information from a
> site. The only website that I see daily is my home page on Yahoo.
> Even if the HT website were really hot, I don't think I'd make a
> special effort to go there with any frequency - I'm just too busy.
>
> On the other hand, I really like the discussion list. The discussions
> are often helpful or at least interesting and it requires nothing of
> me except reading my email. It's quick, easy, and informative. I
> agree, by the way, that the dobee message is irksome. By now most of
> us probably don't even register it in our brains except as a minor
> annoyance.
>
> For me, websites are places I go to research information that I need
> at that particular moment, not places to go for community
> interaction. What about other people? Do many of you have websites
> that you go to daily or weekly? If so, for what? What is so
> compelling about those sites that you make the effort to check in
> frequently?
>
> The other discussion thread, of course, is whether we want the HT
> site to serve us as a conduit for ongoing communication, or as a
> portal to the outside world where people looking for information and
> help can find us.
>
> Bobbi