Musings on communication tools and how to best use them
What is the best way of sharing my geneaolgy progress and questions with friends and family with a minimum effort? Quite frankly it could apply to any subject area. What are my journaling goals? How much do these overlap? Apparently I still don't know. Facebook is a broadcast media that reaches a wide number of people that may be interested. One of the the things I have enjoyed is responses from people I would not have thought to email. Unfortunately Facebook seems best for short posts that do not need to be found again. Also I don't know anybody that understands which posts a user sees. Additionally most of us users are looking to improve the signal to noise ratio of what we read. One of the ways I attempt do this for my audience is put information in comments under previous posts. This balance always seems uncertain. Facebook seems better suited for raising awareness with a link, than the actual content. Blogger seemed to better fit longer narration and using t...