The other place

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

Rumour has it that the 009 Society also has a presence on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube...

Indeed!

Here we are on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/009Society.

Also twitter: @009Society
and Instagram: 009society

But unlike this forum or 'the other place' these platforms just serve to expose our society to the public.  (And they are not the place for members to go for insider society information.  In other words, members will never miss anything critical by not bothering with them.)

At the moment we post:

• A monthly blurb showing off selected article from the NEWS.
• A monthly 'banner' photo of a member's layout, with links to the members' layouts section of the Society website (https://009society.com/news/member-layouts-gallery/?v=3943d8795e03).
• Links to members' videos on "The 009 Society Video Channel" YouTube channel (UC9KI_Im8sktURjUg1mxNBwg).

And in better times we post announcements about upcoming exhibitions that feature Society members.

All of this is done for the Society which means it is done for Society members.  Please let me know if you would like your layout or a video to be featured.  And please send your ideas for better ways to promote the Society on social media.

Tom
(email:  socialmedia@009society.com)

[Jim Flynn]

The following is the opinion of the author, and not of this station...:)

Yes, FB is easier to post pics, so people can show the "Hey, look what I did" (and if they are into getting lots of "likes", they post the same thing of more than one group/page.

For the "How do I...?" and and "This is how I did... type discussions, it's a poor second to a forum or even a email group.

And yes, I've used the Search feature at times. The results are not often a pretty picture LOL

As for "the other place", yes, there is a lot of useful general info, but finding just 009 subjects is hit or miss, since the re-do. Back then, there was a section decided into subsections, for the various scales/gauges.

Each to his or her own.

Jim F

[Hobby]

Horses for courses... Although the Society "covers" my interests according to their blurb the stuff I model is a "minority interest" within the Society. As such there is a lot more of interest over there than on here. As you say they did have a 4/3.5mm section but it was removed by the owners and the stuff transferred into the relevant sections, I think because the owners wished the forum to be what it's title suggests, to encompass all narrow gauge interests and not specialise in just one part and the change was made to encourage that. Whether that was a good thing I'm not convinced but it's water under the bridge now. As I'm a regular visitor (on both forums) I just use "see unread topics" on both forums and it's easy enough to tell on NGRM if the subject is 009 or not. If I was desperate I'd use the search function but I haven't had the need.

I find NGRM much better simply because it brings together modellers of many scales and their interests often overlap with mine allowing an exchange of information, the information on prototypes on NGRM is much better, for instance, because of that. TBH I find it's better to be a member of both, that way I shouldn't miss anything...

FB has it's uses, mainly for me to keep in touch with goings on in the countries who's trains I model (with a lot of use of the translate app!), the Society and NGRM FB pages I tend to ignore.


Funnily enough on NGRM "the other place" is used mainly to refer to RMWeb!!

[Hugh Norwood]

Funnily enough on NGRM "the other place" is used mainly to refer to RMWeb!!

:)

I haven't been there (RMWeb) for years.... It's a bit like the Wild West. :)

[Roger Pound]

Funnily enough on NGRM "the other place" is used mainly to refer to RMWeb!!

:)

I haven't been there (RMWeb) for years.... It's a bit like the Wild West. :)

Would agree - I found too many nit-pickers there as well so I resigned .  ::)

[multivac]

Should be alright posting on "the other place" unless you mention one of the banned subjects which could result in you being banned. I'm not exactly sure what is a banned subject there but probably includes mentioning the rip-off cost of H.