In the course of a year, I meet a lot of upholsterers, and upholstery supply salesmen who used to be upholsterers. When "talking shop", I usually mention this discussion board. I tell them how to find it, and register/login.
The next time I see them, I'll ask if they visited the site, and what they think of it.
So far, no one that I've talked to has shown any interest. It's strange, because most of them seem eager to talk about everything from sewing machines to Quickbooks, so it seems like this would be a good fit.
Have any of you been able to turn anyone on to this discussion board?
I mention it to as many people as I can. It's hard to tell if anyone comes here because there are an awful lot of lurkers.
Regardless, this is a huge tool for the entire industry. I think it's a great forum to exchange tips.
-Andrew
This is just a thought, but I find that people who don't know how to type are really at a disadvantage on message boards. Participating can be slow and sort of frustrating. One of my good friends from my college days doesn't use e-mail very much for precisely that reason.
I have to say that "Personal Typing" was probably one of the smartest, most useful classes I sat through in high school, lol.
You know it's been so long ago that I was struggling with the old one finger typing (two on a good day), that I completely forgot that I can do it know.. :o Just got to keep working on the spelling now :P
Quote from: Grebo on September 15, 2010, 04:22:49 am
Just got to keep working on the spelling now :P
aye now wot u meen.
Seems to me that anyone wishing to source this information will find it themselves,,it's not like you need a secret password.
Dave
I like it here and I've told some others about it and have not seen a single one of them get on here.
Now I know that I got on here many months ago....but I'm pushing to get things going so I can work my way into doing good quality work for a fair price so I can get out of the IT industry.
So like it or not....you're stuck with me. :D
Quote from: sawdustar on September 15, 2010, 09:53:59 am
I like it here and I've told some others about it and have not seen a single one of them get on here.
Now I know that I got on here many months ago....but I'm pushing to get things going so I can work my way into doing good quality work for a fair price so I can get out of the IT industry.
So like it or not....you're stuck with me. :D
If they will let me hang around here they will let anyone hang around. :)
Chris
Quote from: bobbin on September 15, 2010, 03:41:00 am
This is just a thought, but I find that people who don't know how to type are really at a disadvantage on message boards. Participating can be slow and sort of frustrating. One of my good friends from my college days doesn't use e-mail very much for precisely that reason.
I have to say that "Personal Typing" was probably one of the smartest, most useful classes I sat through in high school, lol.
Hey, poor typing skills doesn't keep ME away. At least YOU sat through typing. As a senior in '76, I couldn't imagine EVER needing to know how to type. I've been using the "hunt and peck" method for so long, I'm too set in my ways to learn how to type now.
I think this forum is something that people just have to find on their own to fully appreciate.
Have you ever recomended a movie, or restaurant to a friend, and they HATED it? BUT... if THEY had found it FIRST!!!
Same here. I've talked with friends, reps, co-workers, other people in the biz and I've never seen them on here or when I talked with them they had never visited. I have no idea why other than that they are just too busy or aren't' comfortable using the computer for communicating with other people.
Some people I know seem pretty sure that they're are people out there waiting to take there credit card numbers and social security numbers, and they're right, there are, but you just have to use common sense.
I know there's a lot of lurkers around. Even me, I read whats going on but don't really post all that much,but I come to this website just about everyday.
Lurk on lurkers!
Jim
Every time I see this thread topic......it makes me want to finish the saying.......
You can lead a horse to water, but if you can make him float on his back? Then you've got something. :P ;D
I am a lurker also. I am also a 2 finger typist, graduated in 75 and like Sofadoc never forsaw the need for typing. Thats not what makes me a lurker though I read every post. Im on here a couple of times a week. Lack of knowledge for the subject is usually what keeps me quiet.
QuoteHey, poor typing skills doesn't keep ME away
I've been here since Christ was a lance jack and centurian was a rank,not a tank ; and no one has commented on the fact that the is spelled teh in every one of my posts. I love hanging out with QUALITY PEOPLE ' especially ones this gifted and well rounded. Thanks for keeping me around and being so friendly all these years.
Maybe the typing thing was more directed at girls... you know the whole "vocational" thing and the secretarial option. I was college bound and knew I'd have to type papers (professors don't accept papers that are untyped) so I figured it would be a good thing to know how to do! Turns out it was, too; I made rather a lot of "pocket money" typing papers for those who didn't know how.! I was pretty busy long about mid-term. :)
Quote from: bobbin on September 17, 2010, 01:13:57 pm
I was college bound and knew I'd have to type papers (professors don't accept papers that are untyped) so I figured it would be a good thing to know how to do! Turns out it was, too; I made rather a lot of "pocket money" typing papers for those who didn't know how.! I was pretty busy long about mid-term. :)
It's soooo much easier now. You just pull up a few sources on the web, do a little cutting and pasting, and click "Print" ;)
Quote from: hidebound on September 17, 2010, 03:31:41 am
I am a lurker also. I am also a 2 finger typist, graduated in 75 and like Sofadoc never forsaw the need for typing. Thats not what makes me a lurker though I read every post. Im on here a couple of times a week. Lack of knowledge for the subject is usually what keeps me quiet.
Well good to know your here. you can alays ask a question. me Ive grADUATED TO 4 FINGER TYOING UNLESS IM ON MY I phone, then it can get real weirod with its intuitive typo spelling.
Went to high school in the 60's when typing was a required class, I am so glad it was. I have been lurking here for several years, post occasionally. I learn so much by reading what all of you have to say, thanks.
Carol
I took typing in high school way back when. They had just invented the typewriter when I was in high school.
I flunked my class BTW. :)
Chris
Lol, Sofa., but you forgot the last part... the part about getting caught, receiving an F in the class and then being expelled from school for plaigarism... and then having to explain it all to Mommy and Daddy. (and lastly, missing out on all that binge drinking). ;)
I'm afraid that ituitive I phone would drive me bat@#@#.
I had a whole two weeks of formal typing instruction as part of the grade 9 business course in high school. Us guys spend more time tearing the typewriters apart then we did using them. All I really learned was how to rig an Olivetti typewriter so that carriage return would come off the next time someone used it. It wasn't many years until I regretted that. With every promotion in the forces came more and more reports,returns,and letters to write. For those of you too young to remember typewriters; there is no "delete" or "backspace" etc... By the time I made sargeant major BQ was ordering white out in 5 gallon pails LOL.Mercifully my chief clerk was a sweetheart and my other one feared me.
When I transfered over to the signals corp I had to take a basic teletype course with a bunch of 18 year old privates would either had access to computers or realized that they were more than a fad and had stayed awake in typing class.They were laying down 40 and 50 words per minute and their bosses' boss is in the back row muttering and cursing and threatening to drop a white phosphorus round on his terminal because he couldn't make the required 15. BTW no matter how hard you smack a teletype machine with a pace stick it will not spell check >:(
I actually got stuck in typing class for 2 weeks back in high school. My first choice, Radio & TV Repair was full. I had stupidly put down typing as my first alternate. Now, I wish I had stayed in it. I got kicked out for typing with no paper in the carriage (heck, I didn't know that would damage the roller).
I thought that Radio & TV Repair would be a lifelong career. NOBODY fixes that junk anymore.
Wish they did I've got a plasma that the color turns green. And I spent allot on it about 4 years ago.
Any one remember the telex :o, We had 2, no less in the agents office (customs clearance ) Old BT types with the big black keys & the ticker tape ::) & I remember being the only one on duty when the man come in to install the latest wizz bang cheetahs which had a screen & MEMORY so no more tapes. :o & I had to show every one else how to use them ???
About 10 years back I saw one for sale at a car boot sale :'(