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Post by ender on Jan 24, 2014 16:06:11 GMT
Following on from Gayle Could there be the idea of starting a group on facebook as well ?? just a thought
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jan 24, 2014 22:38:17 GMT
it was definitely an option i considered before setting this up. there are a few sim centres who have facebook pages, St Johns for one.
if this page easily reaches it's limit of uploaded pics we could start a facebook page with links to it from here? that way we could have as many photos as we liked of our projects/activities?
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Post by ender on Jan 27, 2014 11:14:47 GMT
i was thinking start a facebook page that can post links to here more advertising
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Feb 6, 2014 10:59:58 GMT
thats a great idea, my only reservation being that it would be better to promote this forum when it becomes more populated with ideas and questions/solutions so that when people first come here they see a forum thats being used and contributed to and they will think "hey, thats a useful resource for me" and sign up
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Post by ender on Feb 6, 2014 11:55:09 GMT
how is this site being advertised tho appears not many people have used it bar myself you and gayle how can we encourage users ??
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Feb 6, 2014 13:26:52 GMT
how is this site being advertised tho appears not many people have used it bar myself you and gayle how can we encourage users ?? thats a very good point, to which i have no good answer, it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, most people are looking for ideas or solutions to issues they have, but we don't have all the answers, and like you say there are only 3 of us posting on here regularly, it's needs people to make it work. i emailed all the techs i have details of, in Scotland, theres only 9 signed up. i would like to invite the guys from down south, not wanting to put them off with the name, which of course is easily changed, maybe SimTechUK would be better? SimTechSolutions? open to ideas. maybe introduce it up as a collaborative thing this forum has to be for everyone, everyone has to feel that they have ownership of it, maybe you're right, as much advertising as is reasonably possible, but being very clear in it, that this is a new forum, looking for contributions from people, i.e. solutions as well as problems, a forum to share ideas, experiences and knowledge, i have 62 followers of my work twitter, maybe i should tweet there as well does that get us anywhere? David, as mentioned above we all own this forum, i only administer it, certainly not going to say don't advertise, it's just my opinion that we need to be a little careful how we do it and when. but you are right we need more people, but do you think more would return here after a first visit, if they found a lot of stuff here, or found the Mary Celeste of forums? bear in mind in the first 4 days we averaged 450 hits and in the last 4 we have averaged 26 no solid answers here, a lot of thinking out loud above, in my typically rambling style, please comment, i know we need more people contributing, how is the best way to go about this?
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Feb 6, 2014 13:31:32 GMT
how is this site being advertised tho appears not many people have used it bar myself you and gayle how can we encourage users ?? just had a thought, advertise the forum and run a competition for best innovation/problem solve posted, with a prize for the winner?
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Post by ender on Feb 6, 2014 14:37:38 GMT
Love the competition idea could start a thread with that as the header set the goals and see what happens , think simtech uk is a more user friendly name, id be happy to start advertising on linkedin see what the out come of that is. but as you say make sure people are aware it is a new forum so will expand in time ? if no one objects i could give it a go later even get feedback
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Post by Princess Lae-rdal on Feb 6, 2014 15:59:22 GMT
It's a shame it only seems to be the three of us so far. Keep up the good work though - I'm remaining optimistic that others will join in.
My only concern about advertising via facebook etc, and it is a complete nonsense concern at that - is that everything becomes a bit TOO public. Like we've shared stuff already that might go for publication, and I a have a concern that we may be stopped doing that if word goes too wide.
As I said though - complete paranoia as we are already on the www - you just have to find us.
Does that make sense?
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Post by ender on Feb 7, 2014 8:21:44 GMT
how do you mean we have shared stuff that might go public so could be stopped im hoping that with time i will start to feel competant enough to post ideas and thoughts but as im still very new to this role not sure if my ideas will work so trying things out first
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Feb 7, 2014 9:31:19 GMT
that does make sense Gayle, i thought about that for a couple of days before i posted, weighing up on one hand: this is being submitted for presentation whilst on the other: i want to populate the forum with ideas. i eventually decided to post because of the small audience at the moment and perhaps and more importantly, if the idea is shared and used more often the impact can be assessed more easily and with a bigger target group and that also becomes part of the presentation. the issue as you correctly point out is it's maybe too public to anounce here before presenting at conferences such as ASPiH. Although if the submission is rejected then it can come here, a kind of straight to DVD (forum) rather than a cinema release (ASPiH) first. thats what we're doing with the next project we've just started, and actually maybe thats what we can agree on as a group?
so for example, i have an innovation which allows for the generation of a pulsatile central mass, i think it makes the scenario more realistic and encourages learners to do a proper abdo exam during assessment. so i submit my presentation to ASPiH and wait, meanwhile i post here that i have this innovation and ask would anyone like to try it? if i get some yes replies i select a couple/few and share the innovation privately with the explicit understanding that it is to be used, evaluated and feedback will be returned for the possible conference presentation. that enhances the presentation i think. if the submission is not accepted then i can post the idea in full, here, publically, without fear of compromising anything. last point might be that any idea that i take and adapt/improve etc and is then submitted for presentation should always reference back to original concept creator, e.g. this pulsatile central mass was developed from an original idea by David Tennick.
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Post by ender on Feb 7, 2014 10:33:34 GMT
Really Scott ? i dont remember any ideas ive come up that could have brought that on but happy to have helped lol.
With regards to sharing im not sure i follow the same thoughts to be fair, if i come with an idea for a presentation id be more than happy to throw it on here for thoughts and feedback irrelevant of being accepted not accepted because the more involved hopefully the greater success, and more people can take from it and run with fresh ideas, to me this forum should be about each of us learning from each other irrelevant of how few or large the audience is.
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Feb 20, 2014 12:37:42 GMT
Really Scott ? i dont remember any ideas ive come up that could have brought that on but happy to have helped lol. With regards to sharing im not sure i follow the same thoughts to be fair, if i come with an idea for a presentation id be more than happy to throw it on here for thoughts and feedback irrelevant of being accepted not accepted because the more involved hopefully the greater success, and more people can take from it and run with fresh ideas, to me this forum should be about each of us learning from each other irrelevant of how few or large the audience is. yeah, sorry about that, the major PPH we have set-up is from your suggestion. i guess my thinking re presentations is, what would be the point of presenting something that everyone already has and is using, standing up to speak to a room of 25 people to tell them about this simple idea/solution i have and everyone in the room is already using the device, seems almost pointless? not an issue right now as only a few of us are using this forum regularly but if we had everyone in Scotland/UK using it we'd be presenting ideas that were already out there and being used, so to whom am i presenting?
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Post by ender on Feb 20, 2014 13:14:02 GMT
Yeah that makes more sense to me now Scott :)fair point
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