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Re: [GMCnet] The risk of publishing GMC info on Social Media [message #188189 is a reply to message #188174]

Thu, 25 October 2012 09:12

armandminnie

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Registered: May 2009
Location: Marana, AZ

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It seems to me there are two basic problems:
1. The sites that do exist - maintained by Gene Fisher, Patrick and Bdub - have no backup support. If any of these people is hit by the proverbial beer truck then they and their web sites are gone or soon will be. These people should give the keys to their sites to someone else along with whatever they need to know to keep them up or move them somewhere else - another hosting company - for when that beer truck arrives.

2. The photo site had the potential to be much more valuable than it is but without descriptions or tags the photos are very difficult to find. Even user names on the photo site (in most cases) are useless because they are different than the names people use on the net so there is no connection. This is what makes Gene's site so valuable - he maintains the info from the net and the photo sites in a useable format.

I think that problem number one above is the sharing of the keys to each of the sites. I have done a redesign of the gmcws site over the past year or so but, since Bdub is the holder of the keys and has an admin id, there is effectively a backup person for it. The site uses very standard software (wordpress) that is easy enough to use that any computer-literate volunteer could pretty quickly pick up the reins. The pre-redesign stuff that Bdub did is still there and linked to on the new site.

Problem number two above - making the existing net and photo sites better as has been suggested is much more difficult because it involves the people who submit the info and photos. I would advocate the use of the forum and allow photos and PDFs to be embedded in the posts along with a discussion of what they are but that involves moving past email and into the late 1990s technologically and there is resistance to that.

Armand Minnie
Marana, AZ
'76 Eleganza II TZE166V103202
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