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Re: #Testimonials
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I mostly just read messages that come into my email inbox.? On Yahoo Groups, I had a small group for people with disabilities who used service dogs; or, who were thinking about getting one.? I think the most members including me, was around 8.? It was active enough for people who deal with one kind of disability or another? on a daily basis.? When the neo came into our lives, one member at a time, it was really hard to figure it out, when one member had questions about the change and none of the other members could see the same thing.?
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Once all of us were converted to neo, I did have problems with the files section.? I could never get files to download and there was no way to view them online.? I do not know if that has changed as I rarely visit my group or any other group at Yahoo Groups.? The group members started dropping off from posting messages.? Neo was not all that user-friendly especially for those who have disabilities.? I think I might have deleted that group; but, maybe not.? I know that it has not had any activity in at least 2 or 3 years.?
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I do not recall how I heard about groups.io; probably, from a message in YGOG - Yahoo Group of Groups, I think that's the correct full name of the group.? I went and registered with groups.io and waited a bit before I created a group unrelated to service dogs and disabilities.? While groups.io seemed clean and uncluttered when compared with Yahoo Groups, it did cause me a few problems.? It is possible that my brain is just differently-wired and that's the main reason for the problems.? I can do most things from my email account.? However, there are things that require me to visit my group.? It is about the same size as my Yahoo Group was, maybe a little bigger.? Since the owner of the watercolor group moved her group to Facebook and the owner of the watercolor techniques group died, I offered my groups.io group to members who did not use Facebook or Google groups.? Since there are also some artistic members in the MS group, I did ask some of them to join.?
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Even now, people are still using Yahoo Groups.? I still get messages and reply to messages from my email account.? Much the same as before neo.? I don't use Facebook.? I only have one group from Google Groups for electric vehicle owners or those who are just interested. Most groups that send messages to my email inbox are Yahoo Groups.
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Question About Migrating from Yahoo Groups to Groups.IO and Setting Up a New Group's Privacy Choices
#groupowner
Okay, so looks like I'm going to try to move my two large Yahoo Groups over to Groups.IO.? Just tired on the non-functionality, and worsening issues.Have have two questions (so far):? Questions #1:? So, in order to move my Yahoo Groups to Groups.IO, I understand that first, I'm going to need to create a Groups.IO group to migrate my Yahoo Group over to?? And second question I have is, in the creation of my new Groups.IO, how to make the correct Privacy selection, on the "Create Group" screen.? So, not sure I'm actually understanding what the options are telling me, so it's hard to make the correct selection, as certain selections are non-reversible.? The choices are:
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Re: A formatting oddity appeared today
Jennifer,
Earlier today, I originated an email in Outlook and sent to two different groups on Groups.io.? There were significant formatting differences between those two emails when they arrived at Groups.io -- and when they were disseminated to members.? What gives?? ?
Probably group settings. See the Message Formatting section of the Settings page. In particular Normalize HTML Emails will remove colors. As will the more drastic Plain Text Only. Those also affect what formatting tools are available when you compose a message on site.
Shal
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Re: a bit of
#testimonials
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:02 am, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
Why don't we stop taking things so personally and just consider the facts I believe that Mark's personal characteristics and integrity *are* part of the facts. It always stems down from the top in a company. My experience not just with the product itself, but also my interactions with Mark personally, are what make me endorse groups.io so strongly. -- J Having worked with Mark and the others on groups.io for three years now**, I completely agree with J. Mark is one of the most patient, talented and professional people I've ever met, and the synergy of that passion and the efforts of early users has produced an incredibly flexible, durable product that is still capable of doing many things quite well. Mark has been the one to take all these thoughts and pull them into a functioning entity. I expect even more in the future after the 'Great Exodus' subsides. Being a multiple premium group owner, I know that Mark has a sound financial plan as well, and I expect groups.io to last a long time. Of course, users who are worried about the survivability of groups.io can always use the competitors' services. There are a few, and trust me, between us I think we've tried 'em all. Dano **Yeah, three years! I checked back and was surprised. What a time! |
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Re: Email Address
#howtoguide
The way I understand it, in groups.io your email address IS your user id. Probably the easiest way to address this problem is to simply delete the user and send them an invitation using their new email address.?
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Re: Why use hashtags in a group?
#hashtags
My group uses a limited moderated set of hashtags for our book discussion group: #off-topic for side discussions; #spoiler for comments referring to unread chapters that some members may wish to avoid; #technical for comments on mechanics, a few others.Members can mute the tags to avoid messages they don't want to see. I'm not sure the usage is optimal, but it seems to be working, although I don't know if the membership is actually using them.
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A formatting oddity appeared today
Earlier today, I originated an email in Outlook and sent to two different groups on Groups.io.? There were significant formatting differences between those two emails when they arrived at Groups.io -- and when they were disseminated to members.? What gives??
In my original email, I had highlighted some text in yellow for emphasis.? When the message sent to ACOEM-WFD Section arrived in my Outlook later, it displayed the yellow highlighting.? (I no longer moderate that group daily -- a colleague does.)?? BUT when I went to the Groups.io website to approve/release my email to the WFDRoundtable, the text had no yellow highlights.? I clicked on the advanced formatting icon? and there seemed to be no option for color of any kind -- neither text nor highlighting.? ?Those options are available here right now.? ? Furthermore, I am accustomed to seeing messages show up and be released by Groups.io and then arrived in my Outlook inbox with fancy formatting that is not available through Groups.io.? ?So I clicked "preview" -- and there was no yellow highlighting.? I was working in Chrome, and wondered whether maybe Firefox has capabilities that Chrome doesn't.? That wasn't it -- the message looked the same.? So I gave up and DELETED the sentence that told readers to look for the highlighting, and approved it for release.? ?When it arrived in my Outlook inbox, there was no yellow highlighting.? ? One with, one without.? Explanations anyone? -- Jennifer Christian, MD, MPH Moderator, Work Fitness & Disability Roundtable? (>1200 members, all professionals) |
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Re: Log In issues for Existing Subscribers
I have seen a problem around logging in, but I am not sure what it is.
Last weekend, I had a marathon email correspondence with a fellow owner of our group who owned and monitored the group on Y! for two decades. I would call him a "digital immigrant", not nearly a digital native, but certainly minimally literate. He could not figure out how to log on to our group site on grio. I am not sure where the confusion arose, but the man struggled. His account was set up properly with a password. Although he changed his password, his old password seemed to retained somewhere, perhaps in a browser cache, but perhaps not, Eventually I realized that he was logged in, but did not recognize it. Since our discussion was all email and he tried several things before he got back to me each time, reconstruction is not possible, but I agree that taking users consistently to the group home page would help. |
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Re: #addmembers #notworking #membership
#addmembers
#notworking
#membership
Be sure to enter the member email addresses in the invitation on separate lines. I don't think it will work if you separate them with commas.
Bruce |
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Re: The Transfer
Mark says he set something up to automatically send a message to the Y!Group's -owner address as soon as he receives the Invite.
That response should happen immediately, whereas the transfer won't actually accept the invitation, and you will not get the "new member" notice, until your turn in the queue. ___________________ Shal, I was under the impression the acceptance and joining happened right away, but a group didn't get into the queue until the transfer address was made a moderator and the request to move was received by transfer? Dano |
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