Wednesday, April 28, 2010
New stuff on the ATY Web site
Greetings all. This message is to alert everyone that there have been some changes to ATY's method of communicating with the external world.
This blog has moved to the URL
http://atyblog.blogspot.com
The only persons affected may be a few who have created feeds to the blog which will need to be updated.
There is now an Across the Years "fan" page on Facebook for discussion of Across the Years topics which anyone with a Facebook account can subscribe to. The URL is:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Across-the-Years/110410868986214?ref=ts
This replaces two things:
The ATY Discussion Group, which is a Google Group, is no longer supported, and will be disabled shortly. When I created the Facebook page people began signing up for it in droves, whereas the Google resource was almost never used.
Someone created a Facebook page Bring back Across the Years 72/48/24 Hour Footrace, which has had almost no traffic. This will not be removed (I didn't create it), but it is a "group" in Facebook terminology. Practical experience with other groups and fan (company) pages has proven that a fan page is more useful for other users. For one thing, its messages show up in the news and status feeds of people signed up for it, which doesn't happen with groups. People have to check a group explicitly in order to see what's been posted on it. Therefore, we expect to be using the page above for more general discussion.
Don't forget that the deadline for signing up for the Across the Years lottery is April 30! Runner selection will be made on May 1, and notifications will be sent out within a few days.
Oh yeah, one more thing ... Yes, I'm back again, serving as webmaster for 2010, with the capable collaboration of Dave Combs and our race directors Jamil and Nick Coury.
--
Lynn David Newton
This blog has moved to the URL
http://atyblog.blogspot.com
The only persons affected may be a few who have created feeds to the blog which will need to be updated.
There is now an Across the Years "fan" page on Facebook for discussion of Across the Years topics which anyone with a Facebook account can subscribe to. The URL is:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Across-the-Years/110410868986214?ref=ts
This replaces two things:
The ATY Discussion Group, which is a Google Group, is no longer supported, and will be disabled shortly. When I created the Facebook page people began signing up for it in droves, whereas the Google resource was almost never used.
Someone created a Facebook page Bring back Across the Years 72/48/24 Hour Footrace, which has had almost no traffic. This will not be removed (I didn't create it), but it is a "group" in Facebook terminology. Practical experience with other groups and fan (company) pages has proven that a fan page is more useful for other users. For one thing, its messages show up in the news and status feeds of people signed up for it, which doesn't happen with groups. People have to check a group explicitly in order to see what's been posted on it. Therefore, we expect to be using the page above for more general discussion.
Don't forget that the deadline for signing up for the Across the Years lottery is April 30! Runner selection will be made on May 1, and notifications will be sent out within a few days.
Oh yeah, one more thing ... Yes, I'm back again, serving as webmaster for 2010, with the capable collaboration of Dave Combs and our race directors Jamil and Nick Coury.
--
Lynn David Newton
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