Wednesday, November 22, 2006
i was looking through the NP archery blog the other day and i felt that the blog was not interactive . I will not censor what i am going to say or tone down my words here because people will have to know how strongly i feel abt this.
The blog was pretty much like any other blog. And the only thing missing was that it needed to be interactive. Think about it? This is a archery blog, our NP archery blog and all it has are announcements? And even it has announcements; i can literally count the number of words in there. And the blog is updated once a week? Sometimes, only when there is an announcement than it is updated and this can be 2weeks once.But thinks about the times when people go in and it is not updated? Even if it is, it's just a few words? I am sure there will be disappointment- for me it is a big disappointment.
The tag board is like an ivory tower. It is there but no one is making use of it. And on top of it, it is difficult to use. I refer to the comment i made on the tag board, i said if possible change it to Cbox. Take a look at Cbox(if you guys know what it is, it is the place where you type comments; just that is is different design), it is much more fun and the interface is much easier to use. (if you still don’t know, the one on my blog is a Cbox).
It is important to have the tagboard interesting and easy to use and approachable, this is to encourage people to come and give comments about training, how happened at training today.This enhances cohensiveness among us archers. It helps to gel the team up. Imagine if people come into the blog and after reading an interesting post, tags how he/she feels and it creates a snowball effect of people thinking and carrying on the tags pertaining to the first person who made the comment. Than on training days, people come and there is an extra topic for all to talk and laugh abt. Nice picture that forms up in your mind isn't it? =)
Now, to the Postings. What can i say about it? it is dead. That's the first word that comes to my mind. Think about it, come onto the blog after receiving a mail and all you see is "Tuesday and Thursday back to normal". And at the end of the day, the message is to that training is back to normal. This can be made much more interesting and intriguing by perhaps adding some jokes to the incidents that we had with the ruby players and how we won't have to see them again. I don't even think any ruby players will come to see that archery blog, because not all the archery members are not aware of NP Archery blog, not all.. So there isn't anything to worry about. So what if they see, what is the worst that can happen? They come and declare a fight? Unlikely; so there is nothing to worry about.
Hopefully no one would see this as a form of complain. This is a FEEDBACK,
www.dictionary.com if you dun understand what feedback means. Neither is this posted to pin down anyone. So if anyone takes it personally, i can't help but to say too bad.
Posted by dear benji at 10:19 AM