Our first venture at Well House Consultants into a web site on which we encouraged public posting was our Opentalk forum where we encourage past trainees and others with questions on the subject we teach to ask. I'll admit to some anxiety at the time that we were planning to launch the service; it's a big step for a company to provide a fast and easy way for his customers to talk about whatever they like (including the company) both in public, and through the "personal messages" of such a site. I needn't have worried, though - our "open Kimono" approach as a colleague in a former job called it works well; we're proud of our product and who we are.

"The Horse's Mouth" that you're reading now also encourages comments. If you're seeing a Syndicated copy or archive copy that may not be obvious (but if you read it at source you'll find a link.

And we are - (or rather were) about to provide a book review and ranking systems for our library. But why limit it to that? Starting this morning, we're rolling our a rank and review system that will cover almost every page on our web site. You'll see that a Rank/Review button is appearing throughtout our pages as we upload updates. If you visit our course index page for example - updated this morning to add a Perl Course in June - you'll find you can submit a review.

During initial testing, our general comment system is sending everything for approval, but this will be reviewed and (I hope) quickly changed. Starting this way will allow us to catch any undocumented bugs in the system and hopefully to catch the perhaps 1-in-1000 who wants to use a system such as ours as a free board for his own advertising.
(written 2005-02-06 12:06:20)

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