{"id":101,"date":"2008-07-28T05:36:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-07-27T08:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T16:44:18","slug":"united-solidworks-of-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"United SolidWorks of Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Future SW\u00c2\u00a0Online Community\u00c2\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p>With two recent surveys <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=90\" title=\"Survey 2\">(1) (2)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0regarding the future of the online SolidWorks community as conceived by the SolidWorks Corp, it is becoming apparent that some plan is in the works for a new vision of this online community.\u00c2\u00a0 How is that vision shaping up for far?\u00c2\u00a0 SolidWorks&#8217; Matthew West&#8217;s recent words seem to point to having &#8220;a\u00c2\u00a0 central repository on solidworks.com&#8221; where tips, tricks, hacks, tutorials, instructions, etc can be collected.\u00c2\u00a0 To me, this suggests an educational focus.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. West continues, &#8220;I think it would be great for casual users and people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t into the whole blog thing to have one place where they could find information generated by other users, and maybe even sign up for your RSS feeds.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Are SW Users Ready?<\/h4>\n<p>One problem\u00c2\u00a0right now,\u00c2\u00a0as I see it, is that there are\u00c2\u00a0hundreds of thousands of SolidWorks users, but only a small fraction of these\u00c2\u00a0seek out further SolidWorks information online.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0For example, the SolidWorks Forum recently hit 50,000 users.\u00c2\u00a0 This was a celebrated number, but\u00c2\u00a0is a small fraction of the total number of\u00c2\u00a0SolidWorks users.\u00c2\u00a0 Even further fractioned is the number of those who actually\u00c2\u00a0actively browse the forums frequently.\u00c2\u00a0 And of those, how many actually participate in forum discussions?<\/p>\n<p>No one should expect everyone to be online every week looking around through SolidWorks\u00c2\u00a0resources.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I think these numbers indicate that many people may not even\u00c2\u00a0know these resources exist; or that they have not realized the depth\u00c2\u00a0and value of such resources yet.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Support from SW Corp<\/h4>\n<p>If SolidWorks Corp puts a concerted effort into promoting its new online community, it may have a higher level of success.\u00c2\u00a0 However, they already have one case study that demonstrated the difficulty of this task: 3D ContentCentral.\u00c2\u00a0 Even with a link built right into the SolidWorks software, I suspect the user contributed area of this site gets very little activity when compared to the total number of users.\u00c2\u00a0 This may be due in part to how the site is organized.\u00c2\u00a0 It is definitely better than before, but still lacks the intuitiveness required for content managers that house a large quantity of items.\u00c2\u00a0 But, this may not be the point.<\/p>\n<h4>Types of SW Users<\/h4>\n<p>So what&#8217;s really going on?\u00c2\u00a0 It almost seems that it is the experienced\u00c2\u00a0(power) users\u00c2\u00a0who come online seeking out resources.\u00c2\u00a0 These are people who may\u00c2\u00a0have a consulting\u00c2\u00a0business or\u00c2\u00a0they are their company&#8217;s SW guru (or future guru).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 These are the people for who it is important to expand their skill set.\u00c2\u00a0 Should SolidWorks Corp online efforts focus on the average user, or should they focus on the power user?\u00c2\u00a0 I think they can support both.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0They may have to do this with separate efforts.<\/p>\n<p>A central repository of user provided content would best serve the power user.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 SolidWorks Corp should invest in this.\u00c2\u00a0 It can be wiki-like.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Or, perhaps it can be more like an aggregator, similar to SolidMentor.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It would have to be\u00c2\u00a0organized, maybe like CADdigest.\u00c2\u00a0 Opposing views should be represented without prejudice.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not talking about commentary (though that is important too).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking about opposing views in terms of methodology.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, some people prefer one particular methodology, while other methodologies that accomplish the same task are also available (and may be better for many scenarios).\u00c2\u00a0 If a wiki-environment is employed, debates regarding such will definitely unfold, as they do on Wikipedia.org.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, this would be for power uses.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the biggest obstacle is determining how to make such a site for the average user.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To do this, information will have to be easy to find.<\/p>\n<h4>Ease of Use<\/h4>\n<p>How does one set up content driven site that makes finding particular topics easy?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0This is question I&#8217;ve asked myself about my own blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I see people come to this blog and look around.\u00c2\u00a0 I see the searches they do.\u00c2\u00a0 I am often frustrated at just how many searches are unsuccessful when I know I have articles that covered the searched keywords.\u00c2\u00a0 This is because searches are imperfect.\u00c2\u00a0 The results are often too exact.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabetical listing by topics wouldn&#8217;t work.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0For example,\u00c2\u00a0How-to articles are often far to complex to make such a system useful, as they often cover topics involving multiple concepts or concepts that cannot be reduced down to a simple noun phrase.\u00c2\u00a0 My experience with How-to books (home repair,\u00c2\u00a0etc.)\u00c2\u00a0is that they are more for casual reading to get ideas rather than actually being a go-to reference (such as encyclopedias).<\/p>\n<p>The online community site would have to be heavily cross-referenced, whether it encyclopediatic (Wikipedia.org, SolidMentor), aggregational (Pulse, SolidMentor), or listy (CADdigest).\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the research in setting up\u00c2\u00a0such a site should be in the area human systems analyst to find out how people most intuitively use content managers.\u00c2\u00a0 If the content is user driven, the content itself be the least of SolidWorks Corp worries.<\/p>\n<h4>Depersonalization and Individual Ownership<\/h4>\n<p>So, this does bring me to a point recently brought up by Matt Lombard:\u00c2\u00a0 Depersonalization.\u00c2\u00a0 I look at this with two points in mind.\u00c2\u00a0 First, there shouldn&#8217;t be an effort to remove\u00c2\u00a0personality or individuality.\u00c2\u00a0 The singluar voice still has to be heard in order for a united site to work.\u00c2\u00a0 Second, how does one set up such a site without stepping all over copyright?\u00c2\u00a0 It seems to me that SolidWorks Corp may be forgetting they would have to respect the individual&#8217;s copyright over the material they produce.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Do I want my whole articles published on some other site?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe, as long as I received some benefit from it.\u00c2\u00a0 Each person requires something different.\u00c2\u00a0 I doubt there is a single method that will fulfill the requirements of any majority of individual contributors.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This cannot be like Wikipedia.org where all content is non-copyrighted.\u00c2\u00a0 This is because the content provided by the individual for the Solidworks community is Original Research, unique to that individual.\u00c2\u00a0 Wikipedia.org does not allow Original Research at all.\u00c2\u00a0 A united SolidWorks community\u00c2\u00a0sie would have nothing but <em>copyrighted<\/em> Original\u00c2\u00a0Research.\u00c2\u00a0 SolidWorks Corp\u00c2\u00a0will have to recognize this and work within the guidelines established by each contributor, just as they expect their user to follow legal requirements in the use of the SolidWorks application.\u00c2\u00a0 SolidWorks Corp cannot dictate to us\u00c2\u00a0on how the rules will be set for such a site.\u00c2\u00a0 They will have to find a consensus upon the contributors, somehow.\u00c2\u00a0 This is why I previously stated such a site is a risk to SolidWorks Corp.\u00c2\u00a0 How would they handle content if they do not own that content?\u00c2\u00a0 Also, how do they\u00c2\u00a0prevent bias from interferring with the content that is provided?<\/p>\n<h4>Where to Start<\/h4>\n<p>Maybe to start, SolidWorks Corp can set up a simple\u00c2\u00a0RSS feed page that links\u00c2\u00a0to the major SolidWorks blogs.\u00c2\u00a0 It should still be easy to use and in a format that can be easily referenced and provided to non-power users.\u00c2\u00a0 These qualities 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