How To Make This Forum Work
I have been visiting this forum in the last few weeks; asked a few questions and posted a few responses. My observation lets me draw 2 conflicting conclusions: There is so little traffic in this forum that I think nobody out there is using BDC, or everyone out there knows how to use BDC. But it would be very difficult for me to think that nobody out there is using BDC because it is simply one of the most useful in MOSS 2007 and it is also one of the most diffult to use (in my opinion); and it would also be very difficult for me to think that everyone knows how to use BDC because from all the questions asked, about 30% are unanswered and many of the questions have responses that are not considered answers.
So what is the problem? I think it is because people don't use this forum because they think it is not useful.
How to make this forum work? It has to start from the top: The most experience users should answer the more difficult questions from the more experienced users. The more experienced users should answer the less difficult questions from the less experienced users. The less experienced users should answer the easy questions from the inexperienced users. Only if this chain of events happen, then we have a useful forum.
Image a more experienced user asking a more difficult question that is not answered by the most experienced users, he/she feels this forum is not useful and will not participate and he/she sees no need of answering other people's questions and the chain is broken. But if he/she gets something good out of here, he/she will do the same for others.
If the most experienced users can help 10 more experienced users, and .... etc. etc. You will see the multiplier effect and this forum will florish.
