Ron, Sorry to hear of your family problems. We went through the same thing a couple of weeks ago. My wife's Mom was to be moved into a care home. The arrangements were made and then she passed away during the move. I tried Google+ and immediately got invited to befriend several people. I don't do those things so I downgraded and went back to Google Groups which works very well. I don not agree with those socail networking sites. I found out that when I downgraded back to Google Groups, it set me up to not receive any posts, but that has been rectified. I'm looking forward to continued posts from the group. I have unsubscribed from MyPTG.org. Terry Beckingham At 11:07 PM 3/2/2013 -0500, you wrote: >to the online PTG people > >I have been very tied up the past couple of week with my mother in the >hospital and moving her > >to a nursing home. > >I have to say that I was as surprised as the rest of you about the notice >in the PTG newsletter. > >The text in it made it look like I and the ECC were proposing that >Pianotech be closed and that everyone move over to the Google+ community. >Once again, I find the total lack of communication from the Board to be >astounding. My report suggested leaving the email Pianotech running and >starting an experiment with Google+. Next thing I know it is being >announced as the new thing and that people should contact me for >instructions. The G+ community has better options than the Google group >and it less likely to get spam since the membership has to be approved and >can be blocked. I called the G+ community Pianotech just to get that name >in case we liked G+. > >If I had a clue that the Board was going to promote this as the >replacement for Pianotech listserve I would have prepared some >instructions for using Google+. This change could not have occurred at a >worse time for me. I also suggested that the ECC committee be eliminated >since all its past functions are now taken over by staff. I don't have >admin rights to any of the web sites any more. > >I have pretty well lost my interest in dealing with PTG, but still love >the community created by all our online communities. The listserve will >probably be closed, even though there are some functions it provides which >will be hard to duplicate. I am no fan of <http://my.ptg.org>my.ptg.org >and almost never use it. When I do, it is through email. It could be OK >for some committee work. I do think G+ works better than ><http://my.ptg.org>my.ptg.org, and I imagine G+ will grow over time at a >much faster rate. G+ integrates with Gmail very well, and that is the way >I follow what is going on there. Also the G+ iPhone app is excellent and >easy to use. It is unknown how long G+ will archive items, and we won't >have much control over that. I think it is reasonable to transfer the >archives over to <http://my.ptg.org>my.ptg.org to integrate them with that >community just to save them. I told the Board when they first were looking >at <http://my.ptg.org>my.ptg.org that the most important thing was to >maintain the Pianotech archives. Here we are, years past that, and they >are still in question. > >I"m still dealing with selling my mom's house and the stuff in it, so I >don't have much computer time. I have faith in the community that created >Pianotech and know that it will survive. It would be much better if it >could all come together in one place rather than four. I think Google >groups or G+ make sense as the place to have it. The google group is more >like the current listserve and the G+ group offers some new features >including Hangouts which are like Skype conference calls. I leave it to >the groups to decide. > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Ronald Berry Piano Service >Indianapolis, IN >317-255-8213 ><mailto:ron at berrypiano.com>ron at berrypiano.com >http://www.berrypiano.com >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Ask me about Healthy Chocolate! ><http://www.berrygoodchocolate.com>http://www.BerryGoodChocolate.com > >Public Key ><http://www.berrypiano.com/key/Ron_Berry.txt>http://www.berrypiano.com/key/Ron_Berry.txt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130303/d59e6663/attachment-0001.htm>
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