Suggestions and Feedback

Eric, check the room. I am in and there are plenty of options for you to make the room

beatthegmat wrote:Weekly might be good--anyone want to plan?

Also, does anyone have suggestions as to where we could embed this chatroom on the Beat The GMAT Forum homepage? I'm at a loss as to where to put this thing...

Cant we have something similar to the chat box which is installed on my blog.
If we can afford a paid service of such chat box (also sometimes known as Shout box) it'll come handy and wont give you trouble regarding bandwidth.

I just tested meebo chat room, which is full of ads & also it wont make me feel like I am on BtG Forums... it felt like I have come out of Forums.... not liked it...
Perhaps will like it if we installed it on homepage...

May be just below Community & Miscellaneous & above Who's online section.
I suggest embed it there... also keep dimensions as 920 X 125 or lesser.

Many bloggers instal code of google talk or similar chatting s/w (also meebo ) If it's automatically loggin as your BtG username it's better.
Currently it's asking to write a preferred name which I have have written as aim-wsc but it should automatically named me as aim-wsc...

& oh yeah by the way I am online right now... :mrgreen: with a PC so if anybody's interested in quick chat, I 'll around for next five minutes 8)

aim-wsc wrote: Cant we have something similar to the chat box which is installed on my blog.
If we can afford a paid service of such chat box (also sometimes known as Shout box) it'll come handy and wont give you trouble regarding bandwidth.

The whole purpose of Meebo is that its Free. That saves quite a few dollars for Eric both in terms of Product purchase and in saving on his bandwidth.

aim-wsc wrote: I just tested meebo chat room, which is full of ads & also it wont make me feel like I am on BtG Forums... it felt like I have come out of Forums.... not liked it...
Perhaps will like it if we installed it on homepage...

I dont know where you've seen ads. I've been on Meebo ever since they launched their Rooms feature and the only "ads" that i've seen are by Meebo themselves which is basically a Flash presentation of the features.
As for installing on the homepage, yup that option is there. I've already mentioned to Eric so I guess he's looking into it.

aim-wsc wrote: Many bloggers instal code of google talk or similar chatting s/w (also meebo ) If it's automatically loggin as your BtG username it's better.
Currently it's asking to write a preferred name which I have have written as aim-wsc but it should automatically named me as aim-wsc...

The problem with something like this is that someone has to remain logged into their GTalk id. The Meebo room is great in that it doesnt require Eric to remain logged in at all time. As for naming you automatically that again calls for Paid software which honestly is an unnecessary expense and can be avoided. All Eric needs to do is figure out the correct dimensions of the box and we are set

OK

we are all set.

BINGO 8)

Eric,

Instead of the front page, how about a separate page for it? Like you did for the Scholarship page. That way it wont affect the performance of the rest of the pages, and we wont be leaving the website also.

beatthegmat wrote:
How important is it to people to have the chat embedded on the forum? What's your feedback regarding the current implementation?

you can start a poll to get public/members opinion for that.

I agree with you fully and have same thought about it
but lets see what poll says.

hey guys
just in case you wanna have a quick chat regarding anything (especially GMAT )

I am available of chat right now and for next half an hour.

Thanks
just click on the chat link https://wwwl.meebo.com/room/beatthegmat/

and find me there....