Comments on: The agony of web forums and the road to conversion http://www.winextra.com/site-updates/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/ Satisfying Your Inner Nerd Tue, 22 May 2012 15:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dan http://www.winextra.com/site-updates/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 dan Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:00:11 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/11/29/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/#comment-1199 You would not believe how long ive been googling for something like this. Went through 9 pages of Yahoo results without finding anything. First page of bing. There this is.... Gotta start using that more often You would not believe how long ive been googling for something like this. Went through 9 pages of Yahoo results without finding anything. First page of bing. There this is…. Gotta start using that more often

]]> By: dan http://www.winextra.com/site-updates/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-4027 dan Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/11/29/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/#comment-4027 You would not believe how long ive been googling for something like this. Went through 9 pages of Yahoo results without finding anything. First page of bing. There this is.... Gotta start using that more often You would not believe how long ive been googling for something like this. Went through 9 pages of Yahoo results without finding anything. First page of bing. There this is…. Gotta start using that more often

]]> By: John E. Bredehoft http://www.winextra.com/site-updates/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-761 John E. Bredehoft Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:43:42 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/11/29/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/#comment-761 Conversion is not only an issue for personal endeavors; it is also an issue on the enterprise level. When my division was sold, we switched from an internal package to Sharepoint. Both the internal package and Sharepoint had blogging functionality, but unfortunately I could not figure out any way to import blog posts into Sharepoint, which impacted several years' worth of blog posts that I had written behind the firewall. Granted that if this were crucially important business data, we could have hired someone or spent bucks to figure out how to get the stuff into Sharepoint. However, this was not a major issue that was worthy of escalating to the new company's IT staff, but it was an issue nevertheless. This was an ironic case in which I could get my data out of the old package, but couldn't get it into the new one. Normally it's the other way around; the providers of software have no incentive to make it easy for you to move to another package, so data export is not important. .-= John E. Bredehoft´s last blog ..<a href="http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2009/11/remove-probe-its-hard-to-find-kitchen.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Empoprise-bi+%28Empoprise-BI%29" rel="nofollow">Remove probe? It's hard to find a kitchen aid at KitchenAid.com</a> =-. Conversion is not only an issue for personal endeavors; it is also an issue on the enterprise level. When my division was sold, we switched from an internal package to Sharepoint. Both the internal package and Sharepoint had blogging functionality, but unfortunately I could not figure out any way to import blog posts into Sharepoint, which impacted several years’ worth of blog posts that I had written behind the firewall.

Granted that if this were crucially important business data, we could have hired someone or spent bucks to figure out how to get the stuff into Sharepoint. However, this was not a major issue that was worthy of escalating to the new company’s IT staff, but it was an issue nevertheless.

This was an ironic case in which I could get my data out of the old package, but couldn’t get it into the new one. Normally it’s the other way around; the providers of software have no incentive to make it easy for you to move to another package, so data export is not important.
.-= John E. Bredehoft´s last blog ..Remove probe? It’s hard to find a kitchen aid at KitchenAid.com =-.

]]> By: John E. Bredehoft http://www.winextra.com/site-updates/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-4026 John E. Bredehoft Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:43:00 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/11/29/the-agony-of-web-forums-and-the-road-to-conversion/#comment-4026 Conversion is not only an issue for personal endeavors; it is also an issue on the enterprise level. When my division was sold, we switched from an internal package to Sharepoint. Both the internal package and Sharepoint had blogging functionality, but unfortunately I could not figure out any way to import blog posts into Sharepoint, which impacted several years' worth of blog posts that I had written behind the firewall. Granted that if this were crucially important business data, we could have hired someone or spent bucks to figure out how to get the stuff into Sharepoint. However, this was not a major issue that was worthy of escalating to the new company's IT staff, but it was an issue nevertheless. This was an ironic case in which I could get my data out of the old package, but couldn't get it into the new one. Normally it's the other way around; the providers of software have no incentive to make it easy for you to move to another package, so data export is not important. .-= John E. Bredehoft´s last blog ..<a href="http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2009/11/remove-probe-its-hard-to-find-kitchen.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Empoprise-bi+%28Empoprise-BI%29" rel="nofollow">Remove probe? It's hard to find a kitchen aid at KitchenAid.com</a> =-. Conversion is not only an issue for personal endeavors; it is also an issue on the enterprise level. When my division was sold, we switched from an internal package to Sharepoint. Both the internal package and Sharepoint had blogging functionality, but unfortunately I could not figure out any way to import blog posts into Sharepoint, which impacted several years’ worth of blog posts that I had written behind the firewall.

Granted that if this were crucially important business data, we could have hired someone or spent bucks to figure out how to get the stuff into Sharepoint. However, this was not a major issue that was worthy of escalating to the new company’s IT staff, but it was an issue nevertheless.

This was an ironic case in which I could get my data out of the old package, but couldn’t get it into the new one. Normally it’s the other way around; the providers of software have no incentive to make it easy for you to move to another package, so data export is not important.
.-= John E. Bredehoft´s last blog ..Remove probe? It’s hard to find a kitchen aid at KitchenAid.com =-.

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