Comments on: Grouply isn’t cool http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/ Smart thinking about digital culture, media, and the Internet. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:50:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jon Lebkowsky http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Jon Lebkowsky Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:47:29 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/#comment-660 I guess you mean that I was misguided in that I believed that they were trying to fix the issues with their system, and you're saying that hasn't happened yet. I'm surprised they haven't changed their ways. They could have built a successful Yahoo Groups aggregator if they'd been more patient (or less greedy). I guess you mean that I was misguided in that I believed that they were trying to fix the issues with their system, and you’re saying that hasn’t happened yet. I’m surprised they haven’t changed their ways. They could have built a successful Yahoo Groups aggregator if they’d been more patient (or less greedy).

]]> By: Lee-lee http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-651 Lee-lee Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:13:16 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/#comment-651 You are sadly misguided. I was sent an invitation from someone who seemed to know me and know about the yahoo group I belonged to. When I replied that they never contact me again using a grouply email addy, they wrote back that they did not send the message. I forwarded the message to them and though this person did belong to grouply, she did not send the message. She promptly left grouply for using her yahoo/grouply email address to spam Yahoo group members. I promptly had to send a letter written by my legal-eagle neice for them to never send me an invite again in life or I would sue for unsolicited email messages. You are sadly misguided. I was sent an invitation from someone who seemed to know me and know about the yahoo group I belonged to. When I replied that they never contact me again using a grouply email addy, they wrote back that they did not send the message. I forwarded the message to them and though this person did belong to grouply, she did not send the message. She promptly left grouply for using her yahoo/grouply email address to spam Yahoo group members. I promptly had to send a letter written by my legal-eagle neice for them to never send me an invite again in life or I would sue for unsolicited email messages.

]]> By: Jon Lebkowsky http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Jon Lebkowsky Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:20:56 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/#comment-330 One other note: I did get a response from Grouply cofounder Mark Robins noting that "Grouply gives you the ability to send invitations to fellow group members -- up to about 40 or so per group. Grouply doesn't do anything automatically, though. You need to initiate this by clicking a button, such as 'Invite to Grouply' or 'Send Invites'. Grouply typically shows you a confirmation box where you need to confirm that you want to send the invites." He asked if I clicked the confirmation. My clear impression at the time was that I was not inviting nonmembers, but that I was getting an opportunity to connect with members of some of my Yahoo groups that were already on Grouply. Am I a clueless user, or is this a user experience issue? Maybe both... I'm a little too quick sometimes to try out new systems... and I'm finding that most new systems don't offer anything I'm not already getting via various systems that are well-established and, because they're popular platforms that have been around for a while, offer better 'network effect.' More than one acquaintance wrote me to say they're already on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and don't see the need to joint YASN ("yet another social network"). Web innovators, take note. This is not the platform to reinvent. One other note: I did get a response from Grouply cofounder Mark Robins noting that “Grouply gives you the ability to send invitations to fellow group members — up to about 40 or so per group. Grouply doesn’t do anything automatically, though. You need to initiate this by clicking a button, such as ‘Invite to Grouply’ or ‘Send Invites’. Grouply typically shows you a confirmation box where you need to confirm that you want to send the invites.” He asked if I clicked the confirmation. My clear impression at the time was that I was not inviting nonmembers, but that I was getting an opportunity to connect with members of some of my Yahoo groups that were already on Grouply. Am I a clueless user, or is this a user experience issue? Maybe both… I’m a little too quick sometimes to try out new systems… and I’m finding that most new systems don’t offer anything I’m not already getting via various systems that are well-established and, because they’re popular platforms that have been around for a while, offer better ‘network effect.’ More than one acquaintance wrote me to say they’re already on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and don’t see the need to joint YASN (“yet another social network”).

Web innovators, take note. This is not the platform to reinvent.

]]> By: Jon Lebkowsky http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Jon Lebkowsky Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:01:24 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/#comment-329 Glad you thought to check me out! Glad you thought to check me out!

]]> By: Garreth Wilcock http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Garreth Wilcock Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:20:39 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2008/12/27/grouply-isnt-cool/#comment-327 Hi Jon I just got your grouply invitation this morning! I recognized your name so I came here to investigate, but if I hadn't, it would just have gone straight to the spam folder. Now I've read this and it's gone straight to the spam folder ;) Garreth Hi Jon

I just got your grouply invitation this morning! I recognized your name so I came here to investigate, but if I hadn’t, it would just have gone straight to the spam folder. Now I’ve read this and it’s gone straight to the spam folder ;)

Garreth

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