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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Ron,<br>
<br>
Is the ECC report available online someplace for PTG members to
read?<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
On 3/2/2013 10:07 PM, Ron Berry wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">to the online PTG people<br>
<br>
I have been very tied up the past couple of week with my mother
in the hospital and moving her <br>
<br>
to a nursing home. <br>
<br>
I have to say that I was as surprised as the rest of you about
the notice in the PTG newsletter. <br>
<br>
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+. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://my.ptg.org">my.ptg.org</a>
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 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://my.ptg.org">my.ptg.org</a>,
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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://my.ptg.org">my.ptg.org</a> to integrate them with
that community just to save them. I told the Board when they
first were looking at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://my.ptg.org">my.ptg.org</a> that the most
important thing was to maintain the Pianotech archives. Here we
are, years past that, and they are still in question. <br>
<br>
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.<br clear="all">
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-- <br>
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Ronald Berry Piano Service<br>
Indianapolis, IN<br>
317-255-8213<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ron@berrypiano.com"
target="_blank">ron@berrypiano.com</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.berrypiano.com"
target="_blank">http://www.berrypiano.com</a><br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
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href="http://www.berrygoodchocolate.com" target="_blank">http://www.BerryGoodChocolate.com</a><br>
<br>
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target="_blank">http://www.berrypiano.com/key/Ron_Berry.txt</a>
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