I-genius founder Tommy Hutchinson has responded to my item about the social networking site for social entrepreneurs that he and Michael Ward set up. I asked to be de-registered after trying it out. Tommy emailed me:
Yes we will deregister your profile. Hope you can appreciate that with a new site like this there are many technical aspects that we have to improve on including inclusion of de-registering facility. In our joining information we make this clear and ask our users to be patient whilst we sort these out. We are very grateful for the patience they have shown and for their ideas for improvement.
I did read your blog which has many good elements but overall i felt the tone and some specifics were overly critical and somewhat cynical. We are a new organisation with a small but very energetic team trying to bring a fresh approach and have been incredibly encouraged by the responses we have been receiving.
I thought this was rather a limited response to my points, and wrote a longer post here restating them, and griping about email instead of blog commenting for conversation. But on reflection, and after a speedy comment from Carl (thanks), it seemed pretty churlish and trivial, so I've cut it. Instead I've taken another look at the i-genius site with a more positive eye. I still don't like the name and some aspects, but the use of pictures is terrific and I think its ease of use will encourage participation. Who could fail to be engaged by Vicky Hughes Sea Turtle Education Project? As Mark Elton pointed in a comment to my original piece, i-genius has already helped broker support. I'll keep looking in.
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