[casual_games] IMPORTANT: Upcoming changes

[Sheri Rubin]

I found it - I changed it for a couple groups too but nothing yet.

Thanks for the tip!
Sheri

On 12/15/2011 1:58 AM, Johnson, Joel wrote:

>

> In a LinkedIn group, we can change the Activity setting to 'Send me an 

> email for each new discussion', under More àYour Settings.

>

> That sends me every post from that group (I've only enabled it for one 

> group, as I can't imagine getting flooded by all my LinkedIn 

> groups...!) :P

>

> Let me know if it works the same way for you guys as well?

>

> *From:*casual_games-bounces at igda.org 

> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Sheri Rubin

> *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:27 PM

> *To:* casual_games at igda.org

> *Subject:* Re: [casual_games] IMPORTANT: Upcoming changes

>

> I was never able to make LinkedIn do anything more than send the 

> group's updates either once a day or once a week all in one batch all 

> with the generic subject line of something like "From so and so and 

> other International Game Developers Association Group Member" and then 

> require me to use a link to go to the LinkedIn website in order to 

> view the discussion. Even as a group owner/moderator for some of my 

> clients I was not able to do that. If you know how to make it send 

> each discussion's individual comment as separate I'd love to hear that 

> - that's big news!

>

> I was also never really able to sort/separate them as they all seem to 

> come from "group-digests at linkedin.com" 

> <mailto:group-digests at linkedin.com>. Whereas right now if I want I can 

> have casual_games at igda.org <mailto:casual_games at igda.org> go to a 

> Casual Games SIG folder/label, qa at igda.org <mailto:qa at igda.org> to go 

> to a QA folder/label, etc.

>

> It's also been really hard to reply to people privately without it 

> just showing up as a message in the person's LI inbox and you have no 

> guarantee they've set their notifications to email them versus just 

> say replying / copying an email address and replying to someone off 

> list right from the email.

>

> However, I'm the first to admit I don't know all the intricacies of 

> LinkedIn and I'm not using it to it's full potential.

>

> I'd prefer LI over FB for this regardless because of all the issues 

> inherent with Facebook (hi China!) if it does come down to just those 

> two, but I just thought I'd throw out the idea of an actual mailing 

> list because of all the other SIGs I'm a part of who have FB, LI, and 

> mailing list groups and the mailing lists are the only ones that 

> really thrive. The ones who use Google or Yahoo groups also then take 

> advantage of the completely integrated (Yahoo) or semi-integrated 

> (Google) files/documents features among other features but each SIG is 

> different.

>

> Sheri

> (whose keeping this on the big list in case this helps others learn 

> new LinkedIn tricks.)

>

> On 12/15/2011 12:37 AM, Johnson, Joel wrote:

>

> Hey Sheri,

>

> LinkedIn allows you to redirect all the incoming posts via mail, or as 

> digests if we prefer them. And yes, we can also choose which email 

> address we want the messages to be sent to! J

>

> Is there any other feature which Google groups have that LinkedIn doesn't?

>

> Regards,

>

> Joel.

>

> *From:*casual_games-bounces at igda.org 

> <mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org> 

> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Sheri Rubin

> *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:08 AM

> *To:* casual_games at igda.org <mailto:casual_games at igda.org>

> *Subject:* Re: [casual_games] IMPORTANT: Upcoming changes

>

> I'll be different - Google Group!

>

> The Writer's SIG just moved to a Google Group (more because they were 

> not totally happy with Pair List). It gives you the same feel (a 

> mailing list), it ensures people can register with whatever email they 

> want, and it makes sure that people see the discussions vs missing it 

> flying by in FB or not getting the notifications in LI or getting them 

> but by then the non-digest lovers in the house have missed like 10 

> responses.

>

> You can also more easily see the discussions as you want because it's 

> in e-mail and you don't have to give anyone more-direct access to your 

> FB or LI accounts. They have to seek you out.

>

> Sheri

>

> On 12/14/2011 12:37 PM, Sandro Camarao wrote:

>

> How about a LinkedIn group

>

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