Many businesses now create presences on
and ownership over it.
Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus as a
way to get involved in conversations about
I’d been a moderator in a small business forum
their businesses, and to communicate with
on Yahoo Groups back in the days before
others who might be interested in similar
Yahoo acquired eGroups in the late 90s, and
topics. I think that’s a really good idea, but
after the merger, they transformed it in ways
there’s nothing quite like using a site that you
that made it slow and hard to use. We left
have more control over to hold conversations
our Yahoo Group behind to create a forum
like that. You have more control over what’s
that we hosted ourselves, and it grew into a
published, and can take more responsibility
highly visited and respected forum on web