At 06:28 PM 1/18/2002 -0500, Seth wrote:
>Keep plugging away with Conversant, Clark! It won't be long before you'll
>be surprising yourself with what you're able to do. Just ask anybody whose
>been there (
http://support.free-conversant.com/calendar) before.
To be honest, I'm still amazed at some of the things I can do with
Conversant. What I really like is how easy it is to have so many different
views of the same messagebase, which is really what I needed since the
people who visit my sites come for so many different reasons.
I feel like I'm a kid playing with a Transformer robot. Hey look -- it's a
weblog. No, wait, now the messages have formed themselves into hundreds of
separate topics. Twist a button here and you've got all those topical pages
with a Javascript feed. Twist another button and now they'e got an RSS
feed. Flip a switch, and present the information in the form of weekly
newsletters and Avantgo channels.
To me, that's really the bottom line with Conversant. I write all of this
stuff and then rather than worry about which way is the one best way to
present that information, I can easily give people hundreds of different
ways to look at the same set of information to allow them to quickly find
what *they* are interested in.
So, for example, there are a number of people I've talked with who are
business executives at major medical research firms who would never have
time to plow through all of the information at my animal rights site, but
they write me to say that they found the page that automatically shows all
of the stories about PETA or HIV research very helpful and have that
bookmarked.
To me, that's the ultimate compliment for Conversant, because there is no
way I would be able to do anything like that without Conversant.
