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JustinP
Senior Product Manager

Date Joined Mar 2009
Total Posts : 822

Posted 8/12/2011 3:41 PM (GMT -6)

Did you know we have a blog in which we post helpful tips and user stories?

finalemusic.com/blog/

We tend to share our blog updates on our Facebook and Twitter pages, but not on the forum. I haven't been posting them to here to avoid clutter.

Would there be interest in this? In addition, this could spur some more conversation and users could share additional/alternate tips!

Thanks!

Justin Phillips
Notation Product Specialist
MakeMusic, Inc.
www.finalemusic.com/forum

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jms3music
Too Many Ideas in my Head

Date Joined Dec 2009
Total Posts : 405

Posted 8/12/2011 3:48 PM (GMT -6)

Perhaps a sticky topic on the forum would be an appropriate place to note the latest blog posts; that way, there is also one central repository on the forum for the blog updates.

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Hans Nel
Registered Member

Date Joined Sep 2007
Total Posts : 129

Posted 8/12/2011 5:07 PM (GMT -6)

Or, a "News & Blogs" link in the Help menu of Finale

MUSIC - GLORY FROM GOD!

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Saffron
Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2008
Total Posts : 4504

Posted 8/12/2011 6:03 PM (GMT -6)

jms3music said...
Perhaps a sticky topic on the forum would be an appropriate place to note the latest blog posts; that way, there is also one central repository on the forum for the blog updates.

NO!!!!!! ...
Please no more stickies. In fact, PLEASE lose some of the current ones. They appear on every page of the forum listings, taking up a significant amount of space on every page, even though us regulars have seen them over and over, time after time, on (did I mention?) every page. It's worse than the occasional SPAM we get, which is not on every page - because day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, we have to wade through this sort of stuff ...

on every page.

So PLEASE, less stickies - and preferably only on the first page of each forum, not on every page!

Brian

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Hans Nel
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Date Joined Sep 2007
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Posted 8/12/2011 6:52 PM (GMT -6)

Saffron said...

JustinP
Senior Product Manager

Date Joined Mar 2009
Total Posts : 822

Posted 8/12/2011 10:15 PM (GMT -6)

Hi Brian/everyone,

I can certainly remove some of the sticky threads. Any in particular that you'd want to keep? The compatibility info ones will stay, but any of the others can go if no one really uses them.

Happy Al
Registered Member

Date Joined Jan 2009
Total Posts : 127

Posted 8/12/2011 11:05 PM (GMT -6)

Thank you Justin!

The forum looks much better now.

By the way, we love Zuill, but "Just Some Suggestions for Forum Use" can be easily combined with the "Computer Information" thread (with a link to Zuill's thread inside the text). That'll make an even better looking forum.

Al

F2010b

Fritz Meissner
Choir Addict

Date Joined Jul 2004
Total Posts : 3238

Posted 8/13/2011 4:11 AM (GMT -6)

Hi Justin,
My suggestion would be to make a normal thread where just add on a new post each time there is a new blog post; make it non-commentable (I assume you can do that) so that it stays reasonably short, and start a new thread when it gets to more than one page. That way it will come to the top once a week, which makes it reasonably visible, without permanently adding to the clutter.

Fritz

PrintMusic 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010 Windows 7 Home Premium, Pentium i5 750 quad core + 4 GB; Cakewalk UA-101
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Use the Finale Knowledgebase first !

Saffron
Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2008
Total Posts : 4504

Posted 8/13/2011 5:35 AM (GMT -6)

Justin Phillips said...
Hi Brian/everyone,

I can certainly remove some of the sticky threads. Any in particular that you'd want to keep? The compatibility info ones will stay, but any of the others can go if no one really uses them.

Hi Justin,

WOW! Thanks very much for removing some of those stickies! That's already much better, and it makes the forum easier to read on a typical small laptop or iPad screen.

Possible further improvements? How about combining the three "read only/locked" stickies, "MakeMusic Forum Policy", "Computer Information" and "Finale Support for Windows 7" into a single 3-message thread, called "READ THIS FIRST"?

Just a thought ...

... but meanwhile, thanks once again!

Brian

Frivo
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Date Joined Jun 2007
Total Posts : 102

Posted 8/13/2011 5:41 AM (GMT -6)

Brian, I second you there.
I actually believe the message will come out better than they are drowning in stickers ...

Fred-Elias (I am norwegian, so excuse my english...)
---
Finale 2007c, 2008a, 2009a - Garritan Full GPO, JABB, Strad, Gofriller - Xsample - Kontakt 2 and 3 - M-audio ProKeys 88 - Cubase 4 - Adobe Audition 3

Wlgold
Registered Member

Date Joined May 2004
Total Posts : 1733

Posted 8/13/2011 5:57 AM (GMT -6)

I don't see why we still need the sticky Finale Support for Win7. That was put there 2 versions ago when Windows 7 was new. Now that the OS is maturing, I don't think anyone wonders if they still need XP to run Finale.

Finale 2010b, GPO 4, JABB 3, Garritan Steinway Basic
Windows 7, 64 bit
Intel Core 2 Quad, 8GB RAM

gogreen
Registered Member

Date Joined Dec 1999
Total Posts : 1618

Posted 8/13/2011 7:45 AM (GMT -6)

Fritz said...
My suggestion would be to make a normal thread where just add on a new post each time there is a new blog post; make it non-commentable (I assume you can do that) so that it stays reasonably short, and start a new thread when it gets to more than one page. That way it will come to the top once a week, which makes it reasonably visible, without permanently adding to the clutter.

I second Fritz's idea. Thank you, Justin, for removing some of those stickies.

Arthur J. Michaels

www.arthurjmichaels.com

Finale 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011b.r2 (using 2011b.r2), Garritan CoMB
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Mike Rosen
himself

Date Joined Feb 2006
Total Posts : 14146

Posted 8/13/2011 9:16 AM (GMT -6)

I think that the NotePad Limitations sticky was convenient, since it gave us a place to steer new users complaining that "My program won't do xxx." However, the shorter sticky list is nice. I'll try to put together a NPL list, and post it on my tips page.

Mike Rosen
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Saffron
Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2008
Total Posts : 4504

Posted 8/13/2011 11:46 AM (GMT -6)

Mike Rosen said...
I think that the NotePad Limitations sticky was convenient, since it gave us a place to steer new users complaining that "My program won't do xxx." However, the shorter sticky list is nice. I'll try to put together a NPL list, and post it on my tips page.

Actually it was something of an anachronism from the days Notepad was free. Now that it's priced (albeit at a low level), Notepad is no longer a "special" case. After all, we never had stickies for "Allegro Limitations", "PrintMusic Limitations", "Songwriter Limitations", etc - thank heavens!

Surely the place for ANYTHING like this is a heavily moderated FAQ topic ...

Brian

JustinP
Senior Product Manager

Date Joined Mar 2009
Total Posts : 822

Posted 8/13/2011 1:34 PM (GMT -6)

Hi all,

I re-organized some of the stickies. I took down the NotePad article since it hasn't had a ton of traffic recently. I want to keep the Forum Policy thread on it's own, so it's really obvious to find.

PM me if I forgot something, or there's something someone would like added!

Saffron
Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2008
Total Posts : 4504

Posted 8/13/2011 1:36 PM (GMT -6)

Justin Phillips said...
Hi all,

I re-organized some of the stickies. I took down the NotePad article since it hasn't had a ton of traffic recently. I want to keep the Forum Policy thread on it's own, so it's really obvious to find.

PM me if I forgot something, or there's something someone would like added!

Brilliant work, Justin - thank you VERY much for this! if I spot anything obviously missing, I'll be sure to PM you ...

Brian

Michael Ducharme
Registered Member

Date Joined Oct 2007
Total Posts : 365

Posted 8/13/2011 3:25 PM (GMT -6)

It would be nice to see the Finale Blog more integrated with the forums, along with perhaps a wiki and a file storage area for user submitted files (templates, HP preferences, etc). In essence, a Finale "community" site instead of isolated forums and blog etc. Jive is a great platform for this sort of thing, I hope MakeMusic is considering it as an option for a replacement forum package.

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