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Thu, 25 October 2012 06:07

Mr ERFisher

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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
		Re: [GMCnet] The risk of publishing GMC info on Social Media By: Byron Songer on Thu, 25 October 2012 07:38
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