{"id":177,"date":"2009-03-26T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T04:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:20:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:20:58","slug":"brave-new-world-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Brave new world (online)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SolidWorks Corp is doing something well.\u00c2\u00a0 They are taking advantage of current and relavent networking technologies, such as Twitter (search <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23SolidWorks\" title=\"Twitter #SolidWork\">#SolidWorks<\/a>), to promote\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0software and its users.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In fact,\u00c2\u00a0SolidWorks\u00c2\u00a0Corp has a substantial online presence.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of this is their own doing, some of it by\u00c2\u00a0users stepping forward on their own.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a multitude of outlets for information and support.\u00c2\u00a0 There are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sw.fcsuper.com\/index.php?name=Web_Links&amp;req=viewlink&amp;cid=2\" title=\"Forums\">forums<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sw.fcsuper.com\/index.php?name=Web_Links&amp;req=viewlink&amp;cid=4\" title=\"Blogs\">blogs<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sw.fcsuper.com\/index.php?name=Web_Links&amp;req=viewlink&amp;cid=1\" title=\"Resources\">resource sites<\/a>, networking sites (such as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=82201\" title=\"Linkedin (login required)\">Linkedin<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2405941391\" title=\"Facebook group\">Facebook<\/a>) .<\/p>\n<p>Even with all this, there are still other interactive online resources.\u00c2\u00a0 Who&#8217;s checked out the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solidworks\" title=\"SolidWorks wiki article\">SolidWorks Wikipedia.org article<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 I recently made a minor edit to that article.\u00c2\u00a0 It can certainly benefit from many more edits.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, who&#8217;s checked out or contributed to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/solidmentor.com\/modules\/wiwimod\/\" title=\"SolidWiki\">SolidMentor&#8217;s Solidwiki<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 This is on Ben&#8217;s site.\u00c2\u00a0 He also has the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/solidmentor.com\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=314\" title=\"SolidJott article\">SolidJott<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/solidjott.com\/solidjott-addin\/\" title=\"SolidJott add-in download site\">SolidWorks add-in<\/a>, which is growing rapidly in popularity.\u00c2\u00a0 What are your favorite online interactive sites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolidWorks Corp is doing something well.\u00c2\u00a0 They are taking advantage of current and relavent networking technologies, such as Twitter (search #SolidWorks), to promote\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0software and its users.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In fact,\u00c2\u00a0SolidWorks\u00c2\u00a0Corp has a substantial online presence.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of this is their own doing, some of it by\u00c2\u00a0users stepping forward on their own.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a multitude of outlets &hellip; 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