[Portfolio] Portfolio Share & Notify

Beth Kirschner bkirschn at umich.edu
Wed May 6 07:44:20 PDT 2009


Thanks for keeping me grammatically honest :-)
We had some off-line discussion and came up with: "Notify all people  
with whom you've shared your portfolio". Let me know anyone has more  
suggestions...

- Beth

On May 6, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Sean Keesler wrote:

> I generally like the change, but I'll step out of my box and put on  
> my wordsmith hat...which I have no right to wear.
>
> "Notify all people you have shared your portfolio with." A sentence  
> that ends with a preposition?
>
> I really think that we need a word that describes that ad-hoc group  
> of people that "you share your portfolio with".
> Unfortunately its situational...you won't consider a potential  
> employer a "friend"....
>
> Maybe "Viewers" (from Google Docs)?
>
> Would:
> "Send an email to portfolio viewers"
>    be ok?
>
> Sean
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu>  
> wrote:
> At today's t-con, we discussed changing the portfolio share screen  
> in conjunction with resolving SAK-15693 and SAK-16090. The change  
> would remove the "Save" and "Cancel" buttons and instead save  
> changes immediately, which would be consistent with the "Summary"  
> and "Add/Edit Content" tabs.
>
> Removing the Save/Cancel buttons would leave one remaining "Notify  
> Users" button, but I worried that users might confuse the "remove  
> users" checkboxes with the "notify users" functionality. So I've  
> attached an alternative which uses a simple "Send notification  
> email(s)" link instead of a button.
>
> Please let me know which implementation/screenshot you prefer by end  
> of day Wednesday (May 6) and feel free to offer any word-smithing  
> changes.
>
> Thanks,
> - Beth
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