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Thu, 25 October 2012 07:12

Kingsley Coach

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Location: Nova Scotia Canada

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He's right !

Mike in NS

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:07 AM, gene Fisher <mr.erfisher@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not trying to create a controversy here
> I am just showing some of the problems in saving 40 years of GMC technical
> information.
>
> I am going to use two of my friends for examples ( I hope they ok with
> this)
>
> Bdub has the only site that has long-term life for GMC information.
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/
>
> Over the last 10 years, other sites, have come and gone, and we have lost
> the information stored there (about 1/2 of my links are broken).
> - Photo sites, are there to sell you something, and when they wish, they go
> away, or sell you back your own data
> - you have no control of how they control your data
>
> EX-1
> Gary Berry has many fine contributions over the years
> HIs videos were famous, but now Utube has decided they no longer support
> some of the old links like this one for GMCWS rally's.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqK6xa2Sf00
>
> His current information, is in photo bucket, which is allowing viewing only
> one picture a a time
>
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b304/fulsgld/1973%20CanyonLands%20Stretch%20GMC/Burned%20Floor/HoleintheFloor1.jpg
>
> while a GMCphoto store, presentation allows "smart devices" like
> (pads,pods,phones,tablets), allows them to be seen "forever"
> with a single finger swipe using modern technology.
> http://goo.gl/a8c7Q
>
> EX2
> Social Media sites let data go away at their own schedule
> 1 last year Google discontinued one form of presentation, leaving the
> GMCefi group to scramble, and archive their own data and move to a new
> format.
> 2 Some clubs / orgnizations decide (on their own) to capture freely
> donated information, and 10 years later, decide to sell it back for
> members-only
> like this classic document, once free, now only available to 1/8 th of the
> GMC community
> http://www.gmcmi.com/mem-bers/TechHandouts/Powermaster.pdf
> 3 Pictures with their technical documentation are not welcome on the Forum,
> and are difficult to link to (but thanks Eugene for all of your work)
> 4 I recently captured this picture from the FACEBOOK gmc site I liked the
> picture, but have not determined how to id it for the future - afraid it
> will go away
>
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/famous-locations-with-gmc/p46188-momo-driller.html
> 5 Utube, I do not know how to archive their information, for the future. It
> looks like they throw it away after about 2 years.
> 6 One ,regional, club, last year redesigned their web site, I begged them
> to bring back the technical files ( most were irreplaceable and not
> archived)
>
>
> EX3
> 1 GMCphoto site is THE archive for GMC information
> - members come and pass away :>(, but their , data, pictures, and manuals
> remain,
> Example,J Harper (gone for 2 years), (notice the last link to a GB topic,
> no longer works;>(
> http://gmcmotorhome.info/toad.html#vw
> 2 GMCphoto site is ours (thanks Bdub)
> 3 it does not work real well on PPPT devices, but I think it will.
> 4 Send money to GMCphoto site
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/
> 5 where will we archive now that DVDs are too small? (Apple just got rid of
> them)
>
>
> JWID
> Just some of my feelings,
> off to bed now
> gene
>
>
>
> --
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		[GMCnet] The risk of publishing GMC info on Social Media By: Mr ERFisher on Thu, 25 October 2012 06:07
		Re: [GMCnet] The risk of publishing GMC info on Social Media By: Kingsley Coach on Thu, 25 October 2012 07:12
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