This is probably a bad place to ask this question, but which social media outlets do you see as the most important for SolidWorks users?
- youtube
- 3D CAD Forums
- 3dx SWYM
- this forum
- reseller sites
- individual blog sites
- other
Also, since I'm asking questions, do you think this forum is in decline, on the rise, or remaining steady?
This forum.
We see steady new and old user posting.
We get the usual come and gone.
We get some come back after a few years.
Since this is the only SW forum I'm on, and I don't do Facebook, I'd have to say this one. And unfortunately I have noticed a decrease in activity. If they move it from this platform to the new 3Dex-whatever I expect that decline to accelerate rapidly unless they make big improvements to it.
I feel that this forum has been a tremendous asset for SW users, and I hate to see it decline.
- 3D CAD Forums
- 3dx SWYM
- this forum
- reseller sites
- individual blog sites
- other
As an individual I see/read about SOLIDWORKS thru following social media as users like to approach the medium which they feel is easier for them to showcase or to reach out to other users.
- this forum
- 3dx SWYM
- individual blog sites
- reseller sites
- Youtube
-3D CAD Forums
Speaking of this forums, I believe it on the rise since many users have started participating actively helping each other.
I want to find out about solidworks I look here. fast easy and not to complicated. I have seen the other sight compared to a sports car verses this sight as a tricycle. But if you don't know how to drive your better off with the pedals.
I'd say this forum, followed by youtube and reddit for digging into other info, tutorials, etc.
Mostly I just search a specific issue I'm facing, see what pops up, and follow it.
I won't create an account with most of the other social media sites, as I don't like their TOS/privacy policies and similarly don't care for the drama that accompanies said sites (which is why I live in the snowy mountains).
Glenn Schroeder wrote:
Since this is the only SW forum I'm on, and I don't do Facebook, I'd have to say this one. And unfortunately I have noticed a decrease in activity. If they move it from this platform to the new 3Dex-whatever I expect that decline to accelerate rapidly unless they make big improvements to it.
I feel that this forum has been a tremendous asset for SW users, and I hate to see it decline.
I agree with you, Glenn. This forum is my primary social media connection. I do have FB and LinkedIn accounts, but that is more for incoming information from friends and business associates. This forum is where I really interact with fellow SWX users. It is a tremendous asset. I think its use has seen some decline due to difficulties with its administration. The 3DSwym platform is an unwieldy mess.
If this forum were to be shut down I would find another alternative, but it won't be the 3DSwamp.
I also say this forum and YouTube.
What is this "twitter" that you speak of?
Is that really something that is useful?
J. Mather wrote:
What is this "twitter" that you speak of?
Is that really something that is useful?
Only if you can say what you want to say in 280 characters or less. I find it is primarily a means for people to advertise links to more substantial content elsewhere.
Jeff Mowry wrote:
[...] (which is why I live in the snowy mountains).
If you ever hear a knock on the door and see something white with eyes and red nose through the viewfinder - don't shoot! It's not Yeti, polar bear or grizzly albino. It's me who went on a trip to the USA.:D
Well ... I also settled in the mountains after "divorce" with corporations. But in a cottage without electricity, toilet, TV with water from a source. 3,5 km on legs to nearest neighbor (across forest). And without social media. I have never used Facebook. Also Twitter, Instagram or other damn things. Maybe I'm too short here, but I have a positive opinion about this forum (except for the whole scoring system). This ranking idea is for mi strange.
forum.solidworks.com
youtube
google/bing/etc.
Twitter is for the birds...
The rest are mostly useful for marketing nonsense.
Don't worry, Krzysztof, I try not to shoot guests---and we get LOTS of guests here, just not usually this time of year. 5°F outside right now, double-digits sub-zero expected tonight, with ~7" of new snow on the ground.
Was a pretty sunset Saturday night:
J. Mather wrote:
What is this "twitter" that you speak of?
Is that really something that is useful?
Twitter is for exhibitionists, voyeurs, and marketing people. I push my blog out to twitter, but don't actually post there myself.
Well, thanks everybody! I kind of thought facebook and reddit were going to score higher, but then the people who post there are probably not here. I'd bet this place gets more of a ...um... traditional crowd. Have to count myself in that group, I guess. I might get different answers if I asked in one of those other places. I was on twitter and facebook early on, but I discovered quickly that there were a lot of people committing professional suicide in those places, and that it was harder than it looks to separate personal and work stuff.
yep it is tough to keep them separate. never accept a friend request from the boss.
I use this forum mostly (99%). Linked-in has some good training videos and people post more Professional stuff there that is interesting or useful. Also good for professional contacts.
Only time posting on Twitter was at the last couple Worlds I was at and got pictures of Todd Blackshire and me to post to get Bacon Badges. Only other time on twitter was when I just had created the post a few years back about the Backdating policy change and then that night I couldn't get on the forum site and I thought I was blocked for my content and I went to Twitter, created an account and searched for Solidworks and found lots of talk there about the Backdating post (that people didn't want to post on the SolidWorks forum. Found out I wasn't blocked - the forum was down (I think it was a hacker attack).
Youtube a very small amount, and a few individual blog sites. No instagram account, Facebook for personal,
He, he ... You won't scare me. For me one winter - 3 weeks -30 degrees C. Record -37! The dog didn't want to leave the hut on the piss
and inversion: (the clouds have fallen)
I might measure the meta in your place.... ask the same question over in the 3DSwamp and you'll hear... crickets... ask it in redit and you may hear from a higher volume of people, but you wont see the same number of Views....
I feel volume may be on the decline, but Ive seen a ton more specialists speaking up which is awesome.
oh but I do spend a fair bit of time on Grab Cad and sometimes GitHub
Nice photos!
We're not normally this cold this time of year, but it's pretty to have a week or two like today in December or January. I don't mind having a desk job so much on days like today---even got in my exercise shoveling the driveway. But the wood stove is eating more logs than usual. We haven't even lost internet or power today!
Yes... Days like this are the best for constructive work. Silence and You...
i forget about linked-in a good place to keep up with people you worked with with out getting into all the social media stuff.
Linked-in seems so much like FB these days---in style, at least. Though sometimes I find an article worth reading linked there.
Here, for the most part. A couple of individual's and VAR sites if they show up first in a search engine query.
Functionality is in the decline, usage appears steady or increasing.