Hi
Welcome to the Pitney Bowes Business Insight Confirm “blog”.
It is a new discussion forum that will carry informal information by four authors to stimulate discussion and debate about matters that are important in the world of Confirm. Visitors to the site will be able to comment by clicking on the article title.
In case you think blogs are “modern things” your daughters and sons read or write, let me offer a few words of explanation. A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video…but we cannot do video at present so I may offer links to Confirm videos hosted on another site. What a blog is NOT is an alternative or replacement web site or support site – we still need you to continue to log issues and use our main website in the normal way.
The four people you might expect to be debating and discussing Confirm issues with are:
- Dominic McNeillis - Product Marketing Manager for Confirm, EMEA
- Richard Turner – Global Product Manager for Confirm
- John Gomersall – Chief Product Architect for Confirm
- Felix Wickramaratne – Product Manager for Strategy and Analytics, APAC
If you have ideas for articles that might be of interest please email me and let me know. You might be keen to tell everyone what Scotland do with respect to performance indicators or explain how your organisation is going to save money or become more efficient. You may have a reaction to the budget.
For those of you who know us – Hi, and those who do not, Hello :¬)
Dominic
I think this new discussion forum is a great idea. It’s easy to leave a comment – simply click the article title and type your comment in the text box. For courtesy reasons, comments are checked.
Just to say that I managed to find the blog after Thursday’s Scottish user group and I’ll keep an eye on it. Arrived home around 2100 – a long day but good to touch base again
On the whole may be useful, I presume it will be vetted! “comments are checked”. I don’t see a Streetworks Blog, or am i missing something?
Good point, John. The site is intended for all aspects of Confirm and we would like to use it for several reasons, amongst which are:
to seed discussion and debate around specific Confirm topics that we, Pitney Bowes Business Insight, wish to air
to publish informal information (from the four authors) about what we might be doing within the company we might imagine is of interest to our Confirm users
With regards to the existence of a “Street Works Blog”, we could start a discussion thread about Street Works (happy to do so). Another approach might be to await the outcome of the start of a discussion about the possibility of using the IDeA “Communities of Practice”. We might do both.
Finally, it is worth “confirm”ing (could not resist it) that I will be moderating comments to take out any inappropriate language, flaming, personal attacks should they happen. I would like to think that I will be publishing the “good, the bad and the ugly”.
Well done PB, been a long time coming but should prove to be a good source of discussion and resolution to common issues shared with fellow Confirm users as well as a platform for opinions to software ‘improvements’.
How will i be informed of new topics etc? if i am not a registered user as such. Will i need to subscribe to a RSS feed or something? or will there be emailing of new topics as and when they are added to the blog?
Does anyone out there use confirm mapping to record faults and if you do what are youyr experiences ? Are maps thematic ? Does editing take over 1 minute ?
If people are unaware there’s also an existing Confirm user mailing list at http://muguki.talklist.com with a fairly good level of discussion going on.
Hi Jason
If you do the RSS feed, you will get a note when there are updates to the Confirm BLOG.
Apologies for the delay in repsonding, I have been focused on Street Works Events and Diversion Routes launch
Regards
Dominic McNeillis