admin
10-07-2008, 03:59 PM
Push vs. Pull
Unlike listservs, you will generally have to visit the Workscape website in order to participate.
With Workscape you have to click on a few links to find and read messages; they won't get 'pushed' your way in e-mail (unless you subscribe to a thread or subforum; see below). The advantage, though, is that your e-mail inbox won't be filled with irrelevant messages. Plus you can access Workscape from anywhere in the world with a web browser.
When visiting the board, you can easily skip over topics and threads you're not interested in. Plus you can more easily search through the board than through the list archives.
In Workscape you can subscribe to a single existing thread that someone has started or entire subforum (such as the "Ergonomics" thread) , and have new messages emailed to you after they are posted - in a daily or weekly digest format. When subscribing to a single existing thread, you can even choose to 'instant email notification' so as soon as someone replies to that thread, you are notified via email.
To start an email subscription to a subforum:
- click on the subforum name
- click "Forum tools,"
- select "Subscribe to forum"
- select a subscription option: no email notification (it will just appear in your Control Panel), daily digest, or weekly digest.
To start an email subscription to a single thread:
- click on the thread
- click on "Thread tools,"
- select "Subscribe to thread" and then select a subscription option.
Please note:
#1: you won't be able to email replies back to the Forums; you have to visit the site to post a response.
#2: once you receive an instant email notification about a reply to a subscribed thread, you will not receive any further notifications about subsequent replies to that thread, until you visit the Workscape board again.
#3 if you start a thread, you are automatically subscribed to receive any replies to that thread, via instant email notification. Note that rule #2 above still applies.
Alternately, you can subscribe to Workscape using an RSS feed client.
Unlike listservs, you will generally have to visit the Workscape website in order to participate.
With Workscape you have to click on a few links to find and read messages; they won't get 'pushed' your way in e-mail (unless you subscribe to a thread or subforum; see below). The advantage, though, is that your e-mail inbox won't be filled with irrelevant messages. Plus you can access Workscape from anywhere in the world with a web browser.
When visiting the board, you can easily skip over topics and threads you're not interested in. Plus you can more easily search through the board than through the list archives.
In Workscape you can subscribe to a single existing thread that someone has started or entire subforum (such as the "Ergonomics" thread) , and have new messages emailed to you after they are posted - in a daily or weekly digest format. When subscribing to a single existing thread, you can even choose to 'instant email notification' so as soon as someone replies to that thread, you are notified via email.
To start an email subscription to a subforum:
- click on the subforum name
- click "Forum tools,"
- select "Subscribe to forum"
- select a subscription option: no email notification (it will just appear in your Control Panel), daily digest, or weekly digest.
To start an email subscription to a single thread:
- click on the thread
- click on "Thread tools,"
- select "Subscribe to thread" and then select a subscription option.
Please note:
#1: you won't be able to email replies back to the Forums; you have to visit the site to post a response.
#2: once you receive an instant email notification about a reply to a subscribed thread, you will not receive any further notifications about subsequent replies to that thread, until you visit the Workscape board again.
#3 if you start a thread, you are automatically subscribed to receive any replies to that thread, via instant email notification. Note that rule #2 above still applies.
Alternately, you can subscribe to Workscape using an RSS feed client.