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由 Nathaniel Heller 提交于 周二, 07/10/2007 - 09:58
Hi everyone, I hope you are finding the discussion interesting so far. We have had quite a few very interesting posts and are looking forward to hearing from even more of you. You may notice that some posts have been moved around into different threads. This is an attempt to put posts on similar topics into the same thread. Some users suggested that they weren't sure which thread to respond to. We have therefore tried to consolidate posts into single threads on each topic. Please feel free to start a new thread if you are writing on a new topic, but first look to see if the existing threads cover the topic of your post, and if so, post in one of them. Thanks Nate Heller e-agriculture.org
由 Nathaniel Heller 提交于 周一, 07/16/2007 - 08:50
Dear e-Agriculture.org Community, Today is the end of the first week of the first e-Agriculture.org Featured Forum. At this point we have had over 60 posts to the various sections of the Forum from over 20 countries from all over the world. We have had a lot of very interesting posts and we really want to thank everyone who has written in. We would love to hear from more of you. We will be getting a summary of the week's comments to you on Monday, but for now, just a couple suggestions. - Please put a specific subject in the title of your posts. Many users have been responding to other posts without writing a new subject line, and therefore many posts have titles like 're: Innovative Information and Communication Systems,' which say nothing about the topic of the post. If your post is a direct response to someone else's post, this is an appropriate title, but if you are discussing a new topic, it will be much easier for other community members to know if they would like to respond to your post if they can see what the topic is before reading the post. We have already changed the subject lines of some posts. - We have been trying to organize posts into threads by overall topic. We hope this has been helpful and not confusing to those of you whose threads have been moved. - Finally, we have heard from some individuals who asked why they had not been receiving posts to their email inboxes. This feature is not automatically enabled, and you need to enable it yourself. To do this: 1. log in to e-agriculture.org 2. go into the forum (Click the link in the middle of the www.e-agriculture.org homepage that says 'Participate now in the e-Agriculture Forum') 3. at the top of the Forum page, click the link with the little house next to it that says profile. (DO NOT click the link on the left column that says 'edit my profile,' it won't work.) 4. scroll to the bottom of the page, where there is a section titled 'Forum Preferences.' Here you can check boxes for the conferences for which you want posts sent to your email inbox. If you follow these steps, new posts will then be sent to your email inbox. However, it is still only possible to post by entering the forum and posting there. If you respond to posts by email, it will be received by the e-agriculture.org team, and we can put your post up manually, but posting directly to the Forum is preferable. We hope this is helpful. Thanks Nate Heller e-agriculture.org team