paul Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Just had an email sent to the general school admin site promoting http://www.icttechnician.com. is it me or do two sites dedicated to the exact same topic seem pointless?
Dos_Box Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 During the summer 2 Scottish school techs spammed a load of high level mail accounts about a site, which to be frank wasn't very good (just a PhP BB) for school techies. I think this may be the same people. Anyhow, their forum is increadably slow and isn't loading very fast and only gets used twice a day (or thereabouts).
Dos_Box Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Not the Scottish guys then. It's a lonely site though.
Dos_Box Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Oh dear! Have you seen the forum rankings? 'New Class Member'. Tsk!
russdev Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 removed at request - Russell is it worth you getting in touch and say hello russ
Dos_Box Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Possibly. It may let them know about where all of their potential users have been lurking. Besides, what do I say? 'Hi, we're EduGeek and have been your more successful competitor for the past 6 months, which may explain why your forum is empty'?
Dos_Box Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 I do get the impression that it is a techy site for schools run by teachers for teachers.
Guest Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Pus lots of Ads. Seem to have Ranger onboard http://www.rangersuite.com/support/knowledgebase/
russdev Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 yes way too mnay ads.... it started to annoy me after a while ad's Russ
Geoff Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Didn't notice. Have Firefox with Adblock loaded
russdev Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 also to me seems like we are pushing ict support staff and making job role better imho as well as answering peoples technical questions etc the first post puts date of site one month after edugeek... Russ
Geoff Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Was that around the same time we caused a fuss on the TES forums or am I being paranoid?
russdev Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 i think best thing for us is to carry on and if they going going to them if we are no problem. Two sites is not bad thing only if we start fighting with each other then it becomes bad thing as it dsont help ict support community as whole. Russ
Dos_Box Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 I think we seem to be the most noticed and used anyway. Their forum seems rather sparten and bare of posts and life.
RobC Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 During the summer 2 Scottish school techs spammed a load of high level mail accounts about a site, which to be frank wasn't very good (just a PhP BB) for school techies. I think this may be the same people. I really hope you're not implying that I'm a spammer DB... I remember hearing about this site a while back but I certainly wouldn't have been recommending it. I followed it for about a week to see if anything useful was posted, but they seemed to get as many posts in a week as we do in a morning.
Dos_Box Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Their logo 'The essential source for ICT professionals in schools' Seems a little plagerist for my tastes!
StewartKnight Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 there is also this site as well http://www.schooltechnician.co.uk/
tarquel Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 and another one..... http://www.tips4techs.co.uk/ [link from http://www.schooltechnician.co.uk/] and.... no - none of them are by me lol DB may have beaten me to the chase as it were, but i'm not sad enough to start another one -whats the point? lol [just incase anyone is wondering hehe ] Cheers Nath
kevinmcaleer Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Competition is always a good thing. Drives you to create the best online community for educational professionals that there is. Personally I think Edugeek is the best. Look how fast its grown in only 6 months. -Kev
GrumbleDook Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Started responding ... edugeek is in the sig. There will never be only one place for answers ... the more the merrier as long as you don't get site wars. I doubt it will go quite the way uk.education.schools-it did ... but there is nothing wrong with sharing best practice.
kingswood Posted December 8, 2005 Posted December 8, 2005 I saw your responses Tony- did you know the admin is editing your posts (looks like he is taking your signature out!)? I joined. Posted some. It's crap. End of. Kudos (once again) to the forum admins on here that have given us a fantastic resource to come to and draw from when we need to. The difference between the sites isn't necessarily on a technical level (though the quality of technical help on here is far superior in my opinion)- no- the difference is in the sense of community found on here. You don't often get that on forums like this. Thanks guys. Paul
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