Forargyll.com still following the mygaelic.com issue
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:39 am
Regulars will remember the long thread over at the for argyll site.
'S dòcha bidh fios agaibh air an t-sreath fhada thall a làraich For argyll.
Well it has received another couple of posts recently that mention mygaelic.com and this forum too.
Uill, o chionn ghoirid chaidh dà bheachd eile a chlaradh. Fhuair mygaelic.com iomradh agus Fòram na Gàidhlig cuideachd.
'darrellw Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 9:30 am
northloch says “I’m a bit of a web standards nut and a clean markup fanatic” yet the site home page fails W3C standards validation with 53 errors:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1 ... lic.com%2F
It also fails the most basic web accessibility checks - look for the ‘no’ in the right hand column - fails at level 1 and 2:
http://www.cynthiasays.com/mynewtester/ ... lic.com%2F
Charles Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
We’re still following this story, and darrellw comments are very pertinent to the whole discussion over the rich text editor and TinyMCE.
But I think there’s a bigger story here which will take a little more time to shake out: I’ve just been back to the site having entered the search term “mygaelic” on twitter. Interestingly only four tweets. 2 negative, 1 recommending and another referencing a poem just published on mygaelic. I say just, but I mean 17 days ago. The poem, “Gargunnock” is still fourth or fifth in the ‘user-generated’ content.
Put this together with the news item a while back of mygaelic achieving 1,000 users, and the fact that the active registrants of a website are usually 1% of the total — OK, OK, so social networking sites are much higher — say, 15%, and we’re still not getting the type of traffic the investment would need to have been predicated on. The mygaelic staff will be twiddling their thumbs, no?
Finally, I went across to “Forum na Gaelig” and did a quick check on their total users (perhaps we should also be talking about transparency for mygaelic.com): they have 150 or so users and were last active on Thursday.
There doesn’t seem to be a large online Gaelic community does there? Maybe someone somewhere should have suggested a very low cost guerilla strategy? One that would have been more suitable to the numbers of online Gaelic speakers.'
The full thread here:
http://forargyll.com/2009/02/mygaelicco ... a-million/
'S dòcha bidh fios agaibh air an t-sreath fhada thall a làraich For argyll.
Well it has received another couple of posts recently that mention mygaelic.com and this forum too.
Uill, o chionn ghoirid chaidh dà bheachd eile a chlaradh. Fhuair mygaelic.com iomradh agus Fòram na Gàidhlig cuideachd.
'darrellw Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 9:30 am
northloch says “I’m a bit of a web standards nut and a clean markup fanatic” yet the site home page fails W3C standards validation with 53 errors:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1 ... lic.com%2F
It also fails the most basic web accessibility checks - look for the ‘no’ in the right hand column - fails at level 1 and 2:
http://www.cynthiasays.com/mynewtester/ ... lic.com%2F
Charles Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
We’re still following this story, and darrellw comments are very pertinent to the whole discussion over the rich text editor and TinyMCE.
But I think there’s a bigger story here which will take a little more time to shake out: I’ve just been back to the site having entered the search term “mygaelic” on twitter. Interestingly only four tweets. 2 negative, 1 recommending and another referencing a poem just published on mygaelic. I say just, but I mean 17 days ago. The poem, “Gargunnock” is still fourth or fifth in the ‘user-generated’ content.
Put this together with the news item a while back of mygaelic achieving 1,000 users, and the fact that the active registrants of a website are usually 1% of the total — OK, OK, so social networking sites are much higher — say, 15%, and we’re still not getting the type of traffic the investment would need to have been predicated on. The mygaelic staff will be twiddling their thumbs, no?
Finally, I went across to “Forum na Gaelig” and did a quick check on their total users (perhaps we should also be talking about transparency for mygaelic.com): they have 150 or so users and were last active on Thursday.
There doesn’t seem to be a large online Gaelic community does there? Maybe someone somewhere should have suggested a very low cost guerilla strategy? One that would have been more suitable to the numbers of online Gaelic speakers.'
The full thread here:
http://forargyll.com/2009/02/mygaelicco ... a-million/