groups we want to publish to....

ya.....

I wish it was easier also

I don't know if there is way to do this. It sure would make things a lot easier when publishing.

If it's not an option already, and I don't think it is, I'd love for that to be changed. Or, if that's not an option, a way to organize the groups by theme or topic would help a lot!

I think there are probably many more wrong checks to groups when we are trying to hurry....

really good question, db 10,

you can always post it to the gather help link, i get responses in about 1 to 2 working days

Have been thinking that myself Trudy, it just takes so long, and the temptation is just to post to everyone !!!

Perhaps if you were a bit more discreet about publishing to EVERY group you're in, you would not need to worry about such things.

Are there other Kings and Saints on Gather?

Yes and then you get those Messages from those groups! LOL.... you'd think they'd want to push something like this. It would save them time moderating their groups because there wouldn't be so many out of theme things to reject!

King Louis IX..... I don't know, you'd have to do a people search! :-)

I don't know of any way.

I agree Trudy. It's a mess. I just published something and apologized in the comments if I accidentally posted to a group I shouldn't have. It is also very confusing what some groups are actually about. It is easier to post to a wrong group or miss a group you should have posted to with this setup.

I have always wanted to know an easier way of doing this too!!! I don't think there is!!!!

I spend forever on that part. I think, for me, if they were just in alphabetical order it would be a little better. I get so tired of trying to find the ones that I want. I have resorted to ctrl F a few times!

Click...click...click...one at a time is the only way you can really do it. It takes a couple minutes, but you do what you have to do.

Yes, it would be time consuming! They should come up with a better way to do it.

I'd like the whole page where you pick the groups to be organized!
All the photography groups together, the post anything groups together etc!
and of course the button that says pick them all!

As far as I know, there isn't. But I do like the suggestion of a way to organize the groups to make for easier checking and accessing.

Trudy,

Hopefully Gather will make changes to the publishing process that will make it easier to choose groups for our content. In the interim, there is a way to group them yourself (sort of). It can take a little effort to set up initially, but it will save you a lot of time when publishing.

Essentially, you can create and run a macro which selects specific groups automatically. For example, on the 2nd publishing page, you can press Ctrl+Alt+C for all 'cooking' related groups. The macro runs and you see all appropriate groups being 'checked' automatically while you sit back and watch!

This works well, and ensures you never miss a group, or CHOOSE AN INAPPROPRIATE ONE. The 'devil is in the details' though, as some macros will need to be reset if the layout of your groups change (depending upon how it is set up), and you will need to manually add new groups to the macro to ensure they are included.

I have 10 different macros established for each type of content that I publish. They are each triggered by a different Ctrl+Alt letter sequence, which I define. I am finishing up an article explaining this process.

There is a *very* good reason why you cannot click all your groups at once for every article! I can see that you belong to a lot of groups, and some of them are mutually exclusive, content-wise. Group owners specify what their groups are about. You are not to SPAM every group you belong to with everything you write!!! Stuff about your cat does not belong in groups about soups or Asian travel! Group owners get very tired of deleting inappropriate articles from their groups. Some resort to removing and blocking members who persist in breaking the rules an spamming their articles everywhwere that they are not appropriate. Other group members get sick and tired of finding their email full of announcements of inappropriate articles. If a person joined a group about book reviews, then they want to hear about articles about book reviews, and not articles about whatever other topic you choose to write about. So quite sensibly, Gather does not make it easy for you to annoy people with off-topic articles.

"Group owners get very tired of deleting inappropriate articles from their groups. "

Readers are also frustrated when they visit specific groups to find them full of irrelevant material, thoughtlessly posted by people who post to every single group they are a member of. It makes the whole idea of groups meaningless (organizational issues aside).

Equally annoying (to me, at least), is clicking on an article and having to scroll down through several pages of the groups it was posted to to get to the article itself (*particularly* if it's a one line article). That gets an automatic one rating from me. It demonstrates that the author doesn't care about the guidelines of the many of groups they are a member of or the community at large and is (probably) only concerned with getting points.

I publish to less groups than I don't, so for me, checking all boxes would actually take more time.

As for time consuming checking them, not really for me. I use the find feature on my browser put in the keywords that describe groups or the photo and check off those groups. I find it saves a lot of time.

I realize that some groups are moderated and I mentioned that in my article. I am sure people don't intentionally post to those groups that aren't appropriate for what they are publishing. Hopefully people don't "spam" these groups and are mature enough to be able to uncheck those group boxes before hitting the post button! Yes I belong to a lot of groups and I hope to join more! I believe Gather should make it as easy for those who want to be a member and post their work, we do have lives beyound Gather.

This is one of the many things we've been asking Gather to do for us but it remains undone. Why give their customers what they want?

Great question Trudy. I know you would never send inappropriate material to other groups. I understand that you would uncheck those that your contents doesn't apply.
So, I'm glad you asked the question.

Got here late but I concur - it's a labor of one click love.

I can't wait for Kevin's article. Hopefully he'll shed more light. I'm careful posting to the appropriate group but I also rotate my groups, sometimes focusing on a few, then others.Of course I almost always post to my own. I also am more loyal to posting the groups whose owners regularly comment on my stuff.

I was just going to ask you the same thing, but I can't seem to remember why.

Dorine,
I was kidding.
I've never sent anything I have done to every group.

Unmoderated groups also have descriptions and guidelines. Not being moderated does *NOT* mean you can publish anything you want. Stuff about the cute thing your kid did is completely put of place and annoying in a group on the politics of health care. Read the group names and descriptions!

I don't even give a low rating to inappriopriate articles; I see what groups they are posted to in the email notification, and if it is not my group (I go and delete the article) then I ignore it and delete the email notification.

Faith, I know .

I've forgotten the question...