Hello All,
I have decided to start a Blog for Brisbane Ultimate Disc.
This blog is to enable the people of Brisbane to discuss all things to do with Ultimate Disc, such as:
- Results from the Brisbane Premier League
- Rule discussions
- Playing Tips and Strategies
- The top 10 Brisbane Players of all time
Unlike the yahoogroup which is more about disseminating information, this Blog is for conversation and debate - to help the Brisbane Ultimate Disc community grow and prosper.
Please feel free to post your comments, and if you would like to make a contribution, email me and let me know!
7 comments:
Hey Rube,
Great idea for a blog. Figured I'd post a comment but needed an idea - here's one.
A topic you might want to blog on - could we do everyone a favour a cull the number of yahoogroups covering Brisbane Ultimate? As most of the existing yahoogroups are quite well behaved and generally have only the LDs posting info, I can't see why we can't just use the one big one. It took me ages as a newcomer to town (and one who probably had a reasonable idea anyway) to find out all the places I had to go for information.
I think we just need?
1. Qld-Ultimate@yahoogroups
(for those major national/ statewide announcements)
2. Brisbane-Ultimate@yahoogroups
(for all players in Brisbane - to replace the various League lists)
3. Brisbane-Elite-Ultimate@yahoogroups
(for players interested in training and regular tournament play in one form or another)
Various clubs and teams continue to have their own lists.
What do you think Rube?
jdr
I'm with JdR here. As a newcomer with probably the highest likelihood of being able to find my way around in Brisbane (having grown up here, played here for my first 4 years, played again for a year in 2000, know pretty much all the important people), I found it extremely difficult to find out what is going on.
The calendar on the quda website is good, but it is difficult to find out anything more specific about those events - like who's in charge and how to contact them. At least I found it hard. And how is one supposed to know about all of the stupid email lists one is supposed to join?
I've joined a handful now, but I suspect that there are more out there.
Would be great if the email lists were simply hierarchical:
Australia
State
Local
I think Brisbane can manage with one list at the moment and all of the league-specific info can just go out on that.
Agree with Jason's naming, although I would make them all lower case as they are email addresses.
Rubes,
Not to rain on your parade, but in my opinion a blog is the perfect medium for news and people to make comments on your thoughts, not a discussion.
What Brisbane Ultimate really needs is a full blown forum with exactly the topics you've listed above. Unfortunately it's not easy to get a forum hosted like it is a blog. I suggest that if someone has a webhost we get a drupal (bloglike with extra features like a forum, calendar, polls, etc.) site up and running to cater for all of Brisbane Ultimates needs.
I offered this to a couple of people about a year ago, but all offers and suggestions went by the way side. If you are interested give me a buzz/email and we can discuss it some more.
A forum is a great idea.
www.frisbeeforums.com and www.frisbeeforums.com.au are available :)
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Thanks for this post! I’ve already wasted an hour trying to solve this “problem”, but I won’t have to waste any more time now!!
Thanks for this post! I’ve already wasted an hour trying to solve this “problem”, but I won’t have to waste any more time now!!
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