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Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

Kami Huyse — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:32:47 -0000

If you click on my feedbuner feed to subscibe, GreatNews isn't one of the choices:

http://feeds.feedburner.com...

Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

Lee — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:12:22 -0000

Not sure I follow you, Kami -- pls elaborate...

Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

Kami Huyse — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:56:55 -0000

I just noticed that Feedburner doesn't have a GreatNews subscibe thingy. That isn't good.

Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

Lee — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:09:42 -0000

I hadn't realised, but yes I too read my 'friends' first, and THEN the others. Interesting observation, Ms PepsiCola.

And yes, Kami, GreatNews does indeed allow you to categorise and split -- I have all of my client watch lists in one folder, my cappuccino feeds etc in another, my darjeelings, english breakfasts and green teas into other folders, etc. Fabulous tool is Great News.

But I've just installed the latest beta of Office2007 and I have yet to try pulling feeds into Outlook - that will be my next project.

And I am SOOOO JEALOUS of you, Donna, and wish I could be in Canada at this time of year, at a certain venue, with a certain rag-tag bunch of neer-do-wells... But I'm sure my friends are still having a bloody good time without me !! :-)

Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

donna papacosta — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:36:22 -0000

Hi Lee. I must say that I tend to read the people I "KNOW" before all others -- you, Shel, Neville, Andrea, Dave Traynor, Allan Jenkins, Joseph Thornley etc. Maybe that's a female thing!

Hey, we miss you here in Vancouver, mate!

Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

donna papacosta — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:36:21 -0000

Hi Lee. I must say that I tend to read the people I "KNOW" before all others -- you, Shel, Neville, Andrea, Dave Traynor, Allan Jenkins, Joseph Thornley etc. Maybe that's a female thing!

Hey, we miss you here in Vancouver, mate!

Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

Kami Huyse — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:09:03 -0000

Very interesting. I find that the blogs I read first, and most regularly, are those whom with I have a realtionship, either through comments or offline.

Then there are those that I read because a headline grabs my attention. I like how you group your feeds into teas. It so happens that I am a BIG tea drinker. High tea is also a plus ;-)

I need to do this. I have actually been looking to switching to GreatNews from the service I have now. Can you group your feeds into different categories?

Re: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

Andrea Weckerle — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:35:18 -0000

Excellent post, Lee. Interestingly, I've been thinking about this topic myself lately. I probably fall almost equally within both camps (differing in my preference simply based on the situation or issue at hand), hence my years of analytical, abstract and goal-oriented academic studies. From a client perspective, I've had clients with both "male" and "female" communication preferences, regardless of their actual gender, and am thus required to be proficient in both. This places a greater responsibility and time-investment on me, of course, but keeps things interesting. With regard to my blog reading, I probably, like you, have a good mix of styles I enjoy. And with regard to my own blog, my guess is I use both the traditionally "male" and "female" styles, but an outsider would probably be able to evaluate that better than me.