ASU has outgrown its current blog service
It seems ASU has outgrown its current blog service, the one we launched as a beta in February 2006.
While many students and faculty have used our service successfully in the past 3 years, external services
like Blogger, LiveJournal and Twitter now offer superior services and we're finding it hard to keep
up.
The new services offer improved editing tools, more intuitive interfaces, customizable templates,
enhanced multimedia features, upgraded commenting, better group blogging controls, and the ability to
post to your blog from your mobile device.
In its current form, without considerable expense ASU's blog service is quickly becoming
unsustainable. Rather than spend money while continuing to fall behind, we’re considering retiring the
service due to the relatively small number of users and the existence of good, free alternatives.
Feedback
We'd like to work with you to figure out how to serve your future needs and would appreciate hearing
from you about the following:
- Would it inconvenience you if ASU were to discontinue this particular service?
- How important is it for you to preserve the contents of your existing ASU blog? Would you be willing
to migrate the content yourself if we could show you how, or would you want ASU to do it for you?
- How important is it to you that ASU provide blog services directly or would an external service like
Blogger or LiveJournal be sufficient for your uses?
Please feel free to email your comments to uto@asu.edu.
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