[Thursday] How often do you leave a trail to New England Wireless & Steam Museum?
Robert Vincent
robvi3 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 17 18:26:21 MST 2024
I always looked at social media sites like the wild wild west. Just
about anything goes and you can just about get away with anything.. back
in 2005 when my antenna technology was introduced it would have been open
season on me from every self appointed antenna engineer on the planet. I
would have had little peace back in those days. So of the post were retty
bad and I was called everything from a snake oil salesman to vennus little
weasel and some I cannot or would not repeat. And accused of just about
everything sinister.
I however, at the suggestion of all my colleagues at the University of
Rhode Island ignored them. I just kept plugging away. The retr and about a
dozen patents later is history.
The museum is a wonderful experience, few people ( other than technology
geeks like us) actually understand the history of development over the last
120 years or so. The personalities involved and their trials and
tribulations I can only imagine what they will be saying and looking at in
the next 120 years. It has always been up to minds like our to preserve
what is important so future generations can have and share the same
experiences.
Which brings us back to social media, I am not sure such a place is where
we really want to be.
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 10:32 AM Vbob <vbob at whipplestreet.net> wrote:
> Facebook is indeed problematic, as all social media can be.
>
> For my own part, using it to reconnect with folks had a significant part
> in pulling me out of a deep depression following an unplanned retirement at
> the beginning of Covid lockdown.
>
> Not to mention that Ken’s response to one of my posts on the Vintage
> Electronic Test Equipment page led me to getting involved with the Museum
> again, making and renewing treasured friendships in the real world.
>
> There are many ways of reaching out to the wide world, never mind the
> WideWorld - those who WANT to find the Museum will manage, even with some
> false starts.
>
> One of the most rewarding bits of being a gate-tender during 2023 Steam-Up
> was welcoming the folks who followed the little road signs and had NO idea
> what wonders awaited them - so being easy to find for folks who are NOT
> looking is a vital part of our outreach.
>
> Vbob
>
> PS: I find I’m going on about my own challenges these days - but it points
> up how much the Museum has helped ME, even as I wish I could help the
> Museum more. I suspect I’m not alone in that.
>
> V
>
> On Feb 17, 2024, at 9:31 AM, Robert Vincent <robvi3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I do not subscribe to Facebook, I never have and never will. I keep away
> from social media sites. The best way to do it is have a link such that if
> someone goe into Google and types any combination of the
> "Wireless&Steam museum it will direct you to several sites. Also when you
> sign into the Facebook NEWS it will aks for a log in or become a member,
> Just click the X in the upper right hand corner and you go right in as a
> guest, TRY TO KEEP IT SIMPLE OR PEOPLE WILL NOT PUT IN ANY EFFORT.
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 7:13 AM Vbob via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Ken, et al - I just commented on a post by Michael in the Vintage
>> Electronic Test Equipment Facebook group - a bit of gentle snark about
>> finding stuff… - and used Facebook’s ‘automagic match’ to include a link to
>> the Museum Facebook page in my comment - except that it offered three very
>> similar groups - one spelt with an Ampersand, and another with the word
>> AND, and a third I didn’t explore… try as I might I can’t get it to choose
>> the official page - and now I can’t get it to offer all three choices
>> again, but only the two similar unofficial pages…… need more coffee.
>>
>> A workaround is to paste the URL into a post - but I do like the cleaner
>> feel of the name being a link in the text of a post or comment.
>>
>> The ‘Ampersand’ Facebook page splashes in with a invitation to the 2023
>> Car Show, while one of the ‘And’ pages goes to an unofficial but
>> interesting presentation of the Museum.
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/NEWirelessSteamMuseum seems to be the
>> ‘official’ page and opens with a nice shot of the big engines…
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/New%20England%20Wireless%20*and%20*Steam%20Museum/144134172264489
>> - unofficial page but *fairly* current
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/New%20England%20Wireless%20*&%20*Steam%20Museum/1095731340460661/
>> - unofficial page but last post from 2016
>>
>> How did we end up with multiple variously updated pages, and who manages
>> it/them/us?
>>
>> Can/should we figure out how to have one official page?
>>
>> Does any of this make sense? I’m getting lost just thinking about it -
>> and we really REALLY want folks to be able to find the place and be
>> convinced it’s worth a visit.
>>
>> Vbob
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2024, at 5:36 AM, Ken Carr via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Do you frequent speciality groups on Facebook or other social media sites
>> that you have an interest in?
>>
>> Do yo search out topics such as:
>> steam engines. electricity. DIY. STEM
>> trains. mechanics. Machining. Physics
>> engineering. physics. ham radio. Antique
>> Radios
>> Makers. History. wireless.
>> Restoration
>>
>> How often do you drop a plug for the museum?
>> It’s easy to do and if we all make it a habit, even more people
>> will discover us. A suggested sample is below:
>> If you type just the text within the parentheses (omit the
>> parentheses) you will
>> get the nice photo link you may see below:
>> “https://newsm.org” <https://newsm.xn--org-9o0a/>
>>
>> New England Wireless & Steam Museum – A Non-Profit • Public • Educational
>> • Engineering Museum <https://newsm.org/>
>>
>> New England Wireless & Steam Museum – A Non-Profit • Public •
>> Educational • Engineering Museum
>>
>> The New England Wireless and Steam Museum is an electrical and mechanical
>> engineering museum emphasizing the beginnings of radio and steam power.
>> <https://newsm.org/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Dear GOD, things here are very bad, We need help, don't send Jesus, Come
yourself!
When IGNORANCE SCREAMS, intelligence moves on!
Old Italian proverb...
After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box
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