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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.
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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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Re: Mods given editing power in member's signatures?
J and LeeAnne -
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that I can edit signatures at the bottom of plain text messages. Is this what you're referring to? Plain text messages that still allow attachments seems to eliminate a lot of problems for me. Also, just a thought about attachments. LeeAnne, I may not be understanding you completely. Perhaps attachments would work for you if you had them set to delete the oldest as the limits approach. You could set the attachments size limit to avoid the accidental monster photo to stretch you apace even more. Just a thought. One question this brings to mind - If a group is near its size limit and someone posts a file or an image in the Photos area, will that displace an attachment, or do only messages push attachments out? Dano |
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Re: Moderating
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 03:59 pm, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
I didn't know Shal was the owner of the group ?Umm, did you try reading the "Group Guidelines" or the monthly "Group Managers Forum subscription reminder #admin"? -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Changing my subscription
No apology needed.? With all the changes and improvements that Mark makes, I sometimes lose track of things, too!
Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: The Transfer
Stan,
I never got a response that my message was received. Can I just assume they got it? 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. Bottom item here: So have a look in your spam folder or anywhere else an -owner message may have been delivered. 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 -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: #Testimonials
#testimonials
Even though your membership has moved, I wonder if Mark ([email protected]) couldn't still move your messages over?
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Perhaps my experience will be helpful to some. I moved 2 very small groups early on in groups.io's existence. I didn't use the transfer agent Mark has made available because both groups were so small, and it was easy to just invite everyone, plus they all knew we were "trying" this to see how we liked it. It worked very well, and we remain on groups.io. However, I had a larger list and I really dreaded making the change for a number of reasons. I don't know them all personally, and some are not particularly computer literate. At first I figured using the transfer agent would be the smoothest and easiest, given the feedback from several owners. However I kept postponing and hoping YG would shape up. Didn't happen - kept getting worse. Then the feedback started that owners trying to use the transfer were experiencing delays due to the huge numbers of folks bailing out from YG. I was concerned that might complicate our move, and we might actually miss the opportunity to make a transfer if YG became completely inaccessible. I decided my archives were not important enough to move. I could move the members who wanted to move, a re-create any necessary files. I downloaded YG group list to a database on my computer, then created my new group with the same name on Friday, and posted an explanation of what would be happening to the YG group. I received incredibly supportive feedback and gratitude almost immediately, so on Saturday morning I started sending invites, usually 130 or so at a time. I immediately began to get notices that the invites were being accepted. By Sunday midday, all invites were sent, and everyone who had made the leap was delighted with how easy it was. So far the new list is about 20% to 25% of the old list. However folks still continue to join, so I don't think we've topped out yet. A large percentage of the addresses on the old list were actually no good, I suppose due to YG's lack of maintenance, so that accounts for some. Obviously there will be some who chose not to move, but I think that's healthy. The people who were using the list and benefiting from it will be on the new list on groups.io. Those who were no longer contributing or even reading won't be on the new list, which seems appropriate. I know skipping using the transfer agent saved us a lot of time, but it did mean sacrificing our archives, so it's not a one size fits all solution. However, it's worth giving some thought to. Cacky |
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Re: Changing my subscription
Apologies! I guess I shouldn¡¯t do this when I am temporarily one-eyed! (Cataract surgery).
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Re: Changing my subscription
While you're in one of your groups, select Subscription from the left menu (2nd or 3rd item down.)? That should get you where you want to go.
Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Topics I am following?
Okay, I have done it! Thanks.
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Click on in the top left in order to bring up all of your groups and this changes the menu in the left column. ?Or click on Manage Your Subscriptions in Your Groups to change to this same menu.
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The Followed and Muted are in a dropdown menu under Topics (left menu). Hashtags are there too.
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Frances
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