Proof people have no idea what I do at work.
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Topic: Proof people have no idea what I do at work.
Posted By: agentwhale007
Subject: Proof people have no idea what I do at work.
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 10:39pm
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So, as you may know, I run our newspaper's Web site. It is a provided system we use from College Publisher, a company that provides Web site templates and servers for most college papers in the country. We recently switched to the new system they offer, Polopoly 5.0. It is a customizable system, very nice, but it does what it does, if you catch my drift. Everything from layout design to formatting can be adjusted and changed, but it is not an open-ended system. So, today, an editor is talking to me, and says "You know what would make the Web site better? Like, what would drive site traffic up a lot? Some sort of social networking thing, like Facebook." I laugh... Oh wait, she is serious. I explain to her "Yeah, College Publisher doesn't offer that. We have what we have." She stares at me, and goes "Well couldn't you just build it yourself?" Like it is that easy to build a Facebook system from thin air. After no less than 5 minutes explaining to her that while the system we use is nice, we cannot just "make" a social networking tool. And add it. We just can't. She finally said "You just don't get it" and walks off.  |
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 10:40pm
| lol, CP |
Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 10:41pm
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inb4 cp edit: in after cp ------------- 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 10:49pm
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reminds me of dunder mifflin infinity
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 11:08pm
| She obviously doesn't realize who she's dealing with. Seriously. |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 11:11pm
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Obligatory "We get it, you're in the media."
Did you send her back to the kitchen? ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 11:11pm
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bravecoward wrote:Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 11:31pm
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also i miss your mcdonald stories
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 11:33pm
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:03am
| Can you add a comments part after the articles posted? Maybe that's what she wants. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:04am
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For the record... ... The creators of Facebook just made it from thin air. ------------- |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:07am
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Or maybe she was thinking of embedded links to social networking sites, like the digg/reddit/stumbleupon/etc links many articles have.
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:07am
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I hate when computer illiterate people try to talk about like they know what they're talking about.
Makes my blood boil. ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:30am
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:33am
I already have commenting turned on. People use that all the time. No, she was talking about making some sort of system, that would function completely within our own system now. She essentially wanted Facebook, within our Web site. |
Posted By: proteus316
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:39am
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Just make a facebook page for the paper. Then tell her you created the whole thing. |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 12:48am
aside from how amazingly difficult it would be for one person to write and maintain the code for that, who would use it when you already have facebook and myspace? Maybe some user submitted news? But when you use a customizable system, it makes customizing kinda difficult, like those freakin website templates[/mini rant]. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 2:18am
Nobody! A couple of major daily papers have tried using the social networking thing, and the ONLY people that use the stupid things are the Web site editors are their friends and family, because they sent it to them and told them to check it out. It's one of those tools which seems kinda neat on surface level but just doesn't work. |
Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 2:21am
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What marketing people fail to understand is the underlying reason why people (younger than 30) use facebook. It's to stalk that hot girl from high school. Not to play zombie wars, not to read advertisements, not to do ANYTHING ELSE except look into other people's lives. ------------- 
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 7:27am
| so is this chicks stupid to hot ratio worth tapping? |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 7:57am
the all important question. |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 9:33am
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/me demands pictures of the girl Frozen Balls is stalking. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 11:05am
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Whale, Sadly, if this was the real world (not a college paper) you would probably already be fired for "hindering progress" and "being negative." She would then search until she found someone who would implement her stupid idea and when it failed they would be fired for "incompetence." She would eventually get a promotion for her ability to manage sub-par subordinates and her strategic vision. ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 02 March 2009 at 11:10am
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Welcome to my world. You get used to it in time. Outrageous ideas from people who know nothing about technology...it happens all the time. I had our assistant superintendent one day ask me if I could change the software that we purchased that writes our report cards so we could include some line or comment section, I don't remember what it was exactly, but it took me 15 minutes to explain to him that I didn't CREATE the software, I can't just change it to fit his needs. I don't think he ever really got it. ------------- ? |