Understand about the SPAMMING issue and agree, the timeframe will be too short to draw attention and by the time it does, it will be closed anyway.

My only initial thought is that it's a bit of a hammer to crack a nut. Everyone will have to register (not ANOTHER username/password to remember) ... get used to the interface ... overcome any learning or posting problems ... all just (maybe) to say a few words.

I don't know how many people you're talking about (you didn't say), but I'd maybe OFFER a login, to those who feel comfortable/want it. Then simply accept any other sentiments in any form they come at you (Word, email, snail-mail, attached pictures, etc) ... then just transcribe them into posts yourself.

It may sound like a lot of work, but I bet in the end, you'll have more sentiments captured and it'll be less work than all the hand-holding, customization and support you'll provide if everyone has to get their own login account.

Just my 2 cents (Which, being in Canada, is worth more every day! ;) )

adesigninteractive wrote:

anyway-- this new blog, i want it to be for a friend's wedding, so i want to have users be able to register themselves-- to a degree as powerful as possible w/out my intervention-- going off of the idea that if we capture their interest, we don't expect the attention span to necessarily last too long... (see, we're going to basically spam the invited friends to come to the blog and say good stuff, be retrospective, etc... like a wedding gift-- but they are friends of course, and they're invited to the wedding-- so, it's NOT really spam... but you get the idea..) so we want them to read the email, check the site-- login-- everything be really easy, and let them post... and if they like, come back, if not-- no big deal...

it's a great idea for a wedding gift. would you like to be interviewed for a piece for a wedding magazine "blogs... the latest wedding gift"? could be quite a funky article... those magazines love that stuff...

D681A5 wrote:

... those magazines love that stuff...

yeah the more i think about it... gotta get some zeitgeist going... homemade wedlogs... sweeping the nation...
ANYONE ELSE GOT A WEDLOG STORY?? ties to online wedding lists, photos, organising guests, e-invites, gifts like this funky idea from adesigninteractive B)

You know your wedding guests right? And you know the family and friends that would love to be there but can't, so just kick out a list of login names and create a password for each of them. In other words pre-register them. Give each guest their info and hope for the best.

hey there! i'm terribly sorry for such a delayed reply. (wow! and i really did ramble up there, so thank you for your input. i appreciate it!)

i think STK was on the money w/ his prediction. however, it's a skewed statistic-- meaning, after i got into it, i realized i only had 3 current email addresses, so it was hardly a mailing campaign. I also agree about the consolidated sentiment-- the idea of allowing something simple for people who don't care to learn the whole b2ev complexity.

i was really hoping to get some discourse going on there though. i guess i got a little overly excited about it-- not to mention, it was whimsical and ill prepared, and much to close to the wedding date. i should have tried to do it a year ago-- to have given myself the time to style it appropriately, and include some sentimental pictures in the theme, etc-- that would really have been cool.

D681A5, if you're still out there, feel free to hit me up for whatever you had in mind. contact me directly by sending to FedoraCore at Centre Web Design (all one word) dot com. (please note the spelling of centre).

as a brief follow up-- since i sensed an interest-- the wedding was beautiful-- at a place in, or near Corbin, Kentucky (i forget the name of the falls where the camp is... chattanuga? chesapeake?). totally recommend that place-- the cabins were so awesome... supposedly like 200 bucks a nite for these cabins complete w/ AC, two huge bedrooms, a 'main room' w/ fireplace i think, a kitchen, and an outdoor little deck! and that wasn't even the really nice ones! we decided that it would be neat, since the blog didn't catch on before the wedding, that it would be cool to use after the wedding for when everyone got their pictures back, etc. I think, if everyone involved were a little older and the men had wives to remind us, we'd probably have done it. as it is, i think we all forgot about it. so it goes.

thanks again for your input.
js

EDIT:
EdB, i don't know how i missed it, but in agreement w/ you-- indeed that would have been the best way to do it. i didn't know the list of invites, however, and i was trying to keep it a secret from the bride and groom-- to present it as a "group" gift that they could enjoy later. i guess there's a lot of ways that something like that could be done.

oh, and i should have mentioned, i used Blog A for the "memories, retrospective, nostalgia" and Blog B for an "On the way to Kentucky" thing where i envisioned the guests organizing perhaps staying in the same hotel, etc. Another way to do it, i suppose could have been before and after (blog a, and b) and keep the Links blog for stuff like "nice resturants and hotels in the area". b2ev-- the perfect way to plan a wedding!!
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Dear John White
I've deleted all your "Wonderful Posting. Actually I was looking for some thing like this.Thnx" crap.

Buzz off

John wrote:

Dear John White...Buzz off

...uh... huh? [ edit: 'take-off, eh!']

Hey, D681A5, did y'ever do that funky article?
if so, do share the URL, eh?

you caught that, eh?, right stk? eh?... :-)

hey, stk-- ever hit the Toronto Festival of beer? what a great shindig that is, eh?
;-)
(naw, seriously! -- and i say "eh?", all the time-- prob from Bob n Doug McKenzie ya hose-head! take off, eh!)

adesigninteractive wrote:

John wrote:

Dear John White...Buzz off

...uh... huh? [ edit: 'take-off, eh!']

John.White was slapped into the black hole we lovingly call the spam box, and all his banal crap was deleted, hence your confusion ;) ... eh ;)

¥