Follow Sage Software MAS90 Forum Messages on Twitter

November 4, 2008 by Wayne Schulz

Have you heard about Twitter?

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, it’s a short messaging (140 characters maximum) service that lets people post periodic updates about what they’re doing.

These short messages can be a way to keep in touch with friends and family. The act of reading someone’s Twitter messages (called Tweets) is usually accomplished by subscribing to their Twitter stream.

There are also automated tools that let you send short messages automatically to Twitter. Some web sites use these to send out notices to their frequent visitors to alert them to new content which has been posted on the site.

The Sage Software Community Forums have their very own (unofficial) Twitter account that does nothing but send out notices when there is new message activity in the forums.

You can join Twitter here and then click on http://www.twitter.com/sageforums to follow the automated messages.

If you like, you can even modify your Twitter account so that you automatically get SMS text messages to your cell phone each time a new message is posted on the Sage forums.

Link: Twitter Stream for Sage MAS 90 Community Forums

Sage Tip: Get alerts when new messages are posted to Sage MAS 90 message board

October 29, 2008 by Wayne Schulz

One of the most convenient ways to read content on the Internet is via the use of RSS feeds. With an RSS feed you can quickly skim the titles of different articles that have been published online. Most sites – including the new Sage Software Message Boards – support the use of RSS feeds.

For those of you who may be more casual users of the Internet or who don’t want to log onto an RSS reader to check messages – here’s an interesting solution that I’ve been using for the past three months.

The service is called Pingie. It’s presently free and in beta with a limitation of 5 different feeds that may be added to each individual account.

What Pingie does is watch your RSS feeds and send out an alert each time the feed is updated.

This is useful for times when you would like to know that a new message has been posted into a specific forum without having to constantly log into the site and view the list of new messages on your computer.

Here’s an example of how to setup the Core Financial Message Board in Pingie so that every time someone posts a new message (or reply) you will get a notification.

Note: These notifications can be sent to either your email address or to a cell phone via SMS.

Link: Pingie

Sage Software soft launches new message board community

October 28, 2008 by Wayne Schulz

Sage Software has soft launched a new messaging forum which appears designed to replace or substantially duplicate their existing SageTalk forums.

This area, powered by the Lithium online community software, has separate areas for each of the SAGEMAS products – Sage MAS 90 and 200, Sage MAS 500 and Extended Enterprise Suite.

One of the huge improvements to the discussion area is the ability to read the forum messages without logging in or registering for a user ID (previously the SageTalk messaging system required a login in order to view messages).

The new message board also includes RSS feeds so that you can preview messages in your favorite RSS reader (I strongly recommend Google Reader).

A list of the Sage MAS 90 RSS feeds is as follows:

Core Financial Modules

Distribution, Manufacturing & Internet Modules

Customer Relationship Management

Unique Business Challenges and General Discussion

Personalization, Customization & Productivity Tools

Technical and Installation Discussions

Time Tracking & Job Costing Modules

At present there is at least one private community that is also hosted, the Sage MAS 90 and 200 Developer Community. Access to this area appears to be by special request only.

Sage corporate blogs will also be housed within this community. Interestingly it appears that most (if not all) of the communication will take place behind a password protected entrance – meaning the general public won’t be able to read the information without a login and password and what goes on in the forums and blogs will likely not be indexed by Internet search engines such as Google. Update: It appears that you can indeed access this site to read messages and blogs without logging in.

For this initial soft launch there was no requirement to enter a Sage Software customer or reseller ID (as was the case with SageTalk). There’s also no confirmation on what may happen to the SageTalk discussion forum which largely duplicates the mission of the new Sage MAS community.

The mission of this community is to enable all Sage MAS ERP customers to share, learn, and support each other on a broad spectrum of issues and interests. While Sage’s intent is for customers to network, form connections and share useful information, our North American Support team does monitor the site and may periodically respond to unanswered technical posts. Should you require an immediate response to technical issues, we have a variety of support options.

The MAS 90 and MAS 200 community are:

Sage MAS 90 and 200 Discussion Forum

Core Financial Modules
Distribution, Manufacturing and Internet Modules
Customer Relationship Management
Unique Business Challenges and General Discussion
Personalization, Customization and Productivity Tools
Technical and Installation Discussions
Time Tracking and Job Cost Modules

Extended Enterprise Suite Discussion Forum

General Discussion

Sage MAS 90 and 200 Blogs

Alok Tyagi (VP of R&D)
Mike Morper (Sr Director of Product Management – Sage MAS product lines)

News and Fast Tips

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For now registration for the community is free and access is instant. It is not known whether in the future this forum will require entry of your Sage Software customer or reseller number to further authenticate you and issue a user login.

Link: Visit Sage MAS Community

A list of the Sage MAS 90 RSS feeds is as follows:

The MAS 90 and MAS 200 community are:

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