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It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
We'll give you all the training you'll need, support you on the phone or with email, all to make sure you get the best out of your investment.
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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Discuss: differences in feedback
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| Here are some ideas for talking about the differences if feedback between a weblog comments section and a newspaper's letters to the editor page. |
| Most blog entries receive no comments at all, for many reasons: |
| nobody reads the item |
| the item needs no comments |
| readers are too shy, or lurk. |
| Blog items are mostly written by amateurs, and as such are usually wrong on some points or missing some context or other relevant parts. Comments are sought to help the author make the blog item more accurate. |
| Most comments are published, and published instantly, with the original piece, creating an easy to follow context. |
| Comment sections invariably turn into a discussion, and as all comments are usually within one page, following the thread, or narrative is easy. |
| Quantity. There is, usually, no space limitations and sometimes the comments for one item can run into dozens or even hundreds. (It is worth noting that some blog engines will switch off comments after a pre-defined date, to stop comments spam.) |
| Finding blog items and their associated comments can be fairly easy as search engines index them. (Although due to comment spam, most blog engines block spider access to comment sections.) |
| Useful links for searching for blog items: |
| Google blog search |
| Technorati.com |
| The quality of comments is not always very high, in fact mostly it is personal and congratulatory and thus adds little to the original's context. Sometimes comments can be derogatory, insulting or spam. With an open system it is up to the weblog owner to edit or delete such comments. |
| Most newspaper articles have no letters published about them, because: |
| nobody sends anything in |
| there is little space for replies |
| those that are sent in aren't interesting to other readers. |
| Newspaper articles are written, in the main, by professionals. As such they think of themselves and want to appear as authoritative regarding the article, and feedback to correct errors isn't exactly welcome. |
| Most feedback relating to an article isn't published. Those that are, are delayed many days, sometimes weeks later, and without the article in question, which makes putting the letter in context difficult, if the reader missed the original article. |
| Sometimes letters to editors can turn into a debate, but this will take place over weeks, and missing one edition of a news paper can ruin the narrative. |
| Quantity. Generally, there are one or two feedback letters to an editor relating to one article. Very, very rarely are there any more — due to the lack of space. |
| There is no useful way of searching all newspapers for an article and its feedback. |
| The quality of the published feedback is always very high. The newspaper's editor will sift through all feedback and only publish the best. |
