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| Blog for topics related to the SolidWorks Community including User Groups, User Group Events, and the SolidWorks User Group Network. Learn more about the SolidWorks community and feel free to participate. Blog hosted by Richard Doyle, SolidWorks Corp. ... |
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 --- 16 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SolidworksCommunity/~3/355275719/look-for-dark-m.
| Matt Lombard is revisiting the age-old question of how to find "disconnected users" . It's great that Matt is asking the question again, but I suspect he already knew what the answers would be. Matt brought up the same question last July in a private User Group Leader forum. The comments then and now (paraphrased below) are strikingly similar: Then "I think there are some that will not reach out no matter what you put in front of them." Now "Another thing to think about with the other 90% is that some of them don’t want to be found." Then "Even though we hosted a SolidWorks User Group meeting here at <company>, I could not get a couple of our engineers to attend." Now "I’ve tried to get to people by forwarding helpful resources. Out of those couple dozens times, I don’t think anybody actually went to the blog or forum and starting looking for the info themselves." I don't know if there's a perfect answer to the question. I do know that we need to keep trying. There are thousands of passionate SolidWorks users out there that will continue to spread the word, hundreds of user group leaders that strive to reach out to new members, and SolidWorks bloggers that will keep writing and sharing thier insight and knowledge for the benefit of all. It might take time, but we'll eventually reach everyone that wants to be reached. The figures and percentages that Matt cites make things look pretty bleak, but if we take a look at what's happened i ... |
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