Help request from Gizmo's Freeware

[Andrew Lee]

I received this email recently:

Hi Andrew,

As you may already know, Gizmo's Freeware always attempts to list portable
versions of programs in our reviews. We also have this page here:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fr ... ograms.htm

For a variety of reasons we are not always able to keep up to date with product
developments and rely largely on visitor comments to address this. Is there any
way that maybe one of you guys can help us out? In theory our own editors should
be able to manage this themselves, but as with other volunteer driven
enterprises, the contributions range from 24/7 fantastic to the mind numbingly
frustrating.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Regards,

Glyn
--
Dr. Glyn Burgess
Site Manager
Gizmo's Freeware
Techsupportalert.com

Since my plates are pretty full at the moment, I am posting this request to the forum.

If any of you are interested, please contact Glyn (glyn _at_ techsupportalert.com) directly.

[bzl333]

i think TPFC should help manage that portable page in excvhange for a nice logo there to click on and maybe a paragraph explaining TPFC. Would add to site cred and boost traffic too. i think Gizmo gets a ton of hits.

maybe the PortableApps.com site would help - doesn't that guy post on here?

[webfork]

I like that they are a free, volunteer driven site ...

https://www.techsupportalert.com/we-need-you.htm

... but their volunteer video (warning, audio isn't great) talks a lot about expectations and requirements and very little about what you get in return. Towards the end you get that the speaker touches briefly the community, which admittedly sounds cool.

That said, I'm not sure what I'd make for our site. I like our site because I get back many times the effort I put in, but I'm not sure how to communicate/advertise that.

[Midas]

For some nice site interoperability, maybe a way could be devised for auto-insertion of the correspondent TPFC permalink in Gizmo's entries "Portable version availability" field...

[SYSTEM]

That said, I'm not sure what I'd make for our site. I like our site because I get back many times the effort I put in, but I'm not sure how to communicate/advertise that.

I'd advertise two things:

• the best online community I know
• by far the best database of portable applications

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Regarding the help request: no, I'm not interested to help Gizmo's Freeware.

[tproli]

You missed the "most beautiful website design in history" thing

[Midas]

Regarding the help request: no, I'm not interested to help Gizmo's Freeware.

I would, but after (re-)checking the site I came away feeling that is somewhat of a tall order... (unless your nick is checker, that is ) and I don't know if I'm up for it.

IMHO, they should aim for a more auto-emerging and ad-hoc way of harvesting contributions...

[abacusFanboi]

tsa is different than most other sites.
easy 'anon' commenting. comments become lengthy multi-pages. reply indent
and a forum.

I still think they'd best just link to here (portablefreeware). maybe this site could provide permalinks to
1. the app page (already done, i think).
2. a date sort search of this forum for app name.

portablefreeware could link to tsa for heavy info pages, but then maybe just rely on user comments on portablefreeware app page to link to tsa.

[webfork]

IMHO, they should aim for a more auto-emerging and ad-hoc way of harvesting contributions...

Well said. Additional, I like to think that many different people here on the site break down the work of discovering and updating the portable software into component parts.

It's been said better elsewhere on these forums but different people's time and effort on different parts of the site have enabled a larger effort. Giving responsibility to one single person to take care of the task of fully and effectively reviewing software seems problematic.

Anyway, I'm comparing our site to another site that I don't fully understand. I'm sure there's good reasons their membership is setup the way it is.