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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Message from Robert Grawet, Group Founder, WMA, "The Virtual Motorcycle Gang"



I am so excited as we have member #216 join this last week. We have grown at a very steady rate since beginning in April of 2008.

We had a couple of fluxuations in the numbers as our main source of members; LinkedIn.com changes some of their rules for group participation. AND they were very good changes in my mind. The changes they made was to make it impossible for any LinkedIn member to belong to more than 50 groups. There had become a "MySpace" type race to add groups and 'connections' to your profile in order to appear to be well connected.

As a result, many people joined 10 - 25 or more groups on every day. You'd see the same old names on LinkedIn in their update section, and these names would be there to announce that they had joined 25 groups today.

With the change, many were forced to actually drop out of groups that they had no real interest in. This caused us to have a long series of membership bounces.

Things seem to have finally stabilized, and it now appears that EVERY single one of our members ACTUALLY is a motorcycle fan; whether they own one or not.

So, the end result seems good, as I never had expected anyone to join unless they were a motorcycle nut like me.

Let's all get some good riding in before the fall weather begins to slow us down!

Ride Safe!

1 comment:

Howard said...

hey robert why don't you sponsor a ride in for all you virtual motorcycle friends

1913 Harley Davidson - Complete Look including watching it run!

Read all the way down, and check the archives section. LOTS of great ride stories and photos!

Be sure to go to the 'Archives' on the right side of this page. There are hordes of great ride stories in 2009/2008.

You can use the 'search' button on the top righthand side of the page to find a specific article or see what's available on a specific subject.

There's a very well written story about riding around Kyushu Island Japan and ending at "The Sturgis of Japan", or ride along with John and the Muskogee Motorcycle Club back in the 'old' days.....in a story from John Merriam, or how about following Peter Galea, Francis Galea and myself as we ride from Seattle to Las Vegas?

Much more! Just go to the search bar and type a search, or spend time going thru the archives (on the lower right side) to see many stories and pictures. Ride Safe, brothers and sisters!