Which workflow inbox when? New blog on SCN

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Volker, 
I think perhaps you should consider another look...

While I understand the frustration, which was shared by many in the early days of the new SCN, many measures have since been taken to improve these, such as making it clearer to newbies the difference between a discussion and a blog, and making a discussion the very first option in the Create menu.  Also we have a considerable number of moderators, including myself, watching the various spaces - i.e. topic areas - who focus on removing misposted blogs, educating newbies, gently disciplining repeat offenders, and encouraging those who post good quality content. We also provide a Report Abuse option that anyone can use to advise us of suspect content.  This does seem to be working and the number of misposted blogs is greatly reduced since these changes were put in effect. 

Some of those who used to regular post in the sap-wug list are now active members of the Business Workflow and Business Process Management and Composition spaces such as Sue Keohan, Rick Bakker and myself.  I would love to see more of our SAP-wuggers in there showing their expertise by blogging, and catching out those few individuals who are reposting already copyrighted material - which is definitely not allowed.  While we do our best to catch these, the more people who are looking the better as we all monitor different sites. 

The Communications and Activity feed are provided as tailored-by-you quick feeds (you can also specify these as your landing page) which would let you catch up when you want to ... and these can now be accessed also via the SCN Mobile site powered by Jive which personally I find easier to read than the website - see here for info http://scn.sap.com/community/about/blog/2012/10/19/scn-goes-mobile. 

Another alternative is to monitor automated twitter feeds such as https://twitter.com/scnblogs - this I really like as it is an automated feed of blogs only and gives you a quick heads up on many of the far more interesting blogs that are increasingly cropping up such as this one on Ageism: http://scn.sap.com/community/about/blog/2012/11/20/the-most-balanced-piece-i-could-write-about-the-stupidity-of-ageis and this one on upskilling: http://scn.sap.com/community/career-center/blog/2012/10/24/a-call-to-arms-for-abap-developers 

#justsayin
Regards,
Jocelyn 

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Wegert, Volker
Sent: Sunday, 25 November 2012 5:29 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: AW: Which workflow inbox when? New blog on SCN

> Just in case anyone isn’t monitoring SCN (BTW … why not?!)

Frankly speaking because I think it's a pain you-know-where to keep up to date. I like mailing lists and NNTP newsgroups, and I can arrange myself with RSS feeds as long as they allow me to follow all entries and are not restricted to the last 10 or so postings. This way, I can catch up whenever I want on what has happened since I last had the time to do so. I find it rather hard to have to click through this bulky web page forum blog melee and have my I/O channels clogged with "URGENT PLZ HULP ME" blogs (!). As a consequence, I don't. I visit SCN whenever I need to look something up - I may be missing lot of stuff, but so far it hasn't bothered me. While the new SCN looks better than the old SDN, from my point of view, the quality of the content has deteriorated massively.

(@Jocelyn Dart: Sorry, nothing personal, you just triggered my pre-fabricated SCN response :-))

  Volker

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