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I was just curious if there's a way to look at it online? It could be updated immediately. I mean its just a database taken from the form online anyway.
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I was just curious if there's a way to look at it online? It could be updated immediately. I mean its just a database taken from the form online anyway.
However, Vince has this topic on his development plan,
and in one conversation he described a possible smart-phone enabled solution that would let you access the needed part of the Anonymous listing (your local) from the side of the road on using your web-enabled smart phone. That would be very cool, IMHO. No time-line on this right now, but on the list.
I think an App for that would be a winner of an idea.
Great idea. Drop a pin on a map for your current location and pull up anonymous members nearby. If it can work for food, gas, or movie theaters, it should work for us.
Making it a paid app would maybe even pay for it's development from an outside source as well as add a little to the MOA's coffers. The MOA doesn't necessarily need to develop it alone. I'm certain that some people/companies would be interested in it for a share of the proceeds. I'd gladly pay a few bucks for the app which would also be a way to limit it to members only, assuming we had to use our MOA member # to download it. Combine the existing anon database with a map program and there you go.
I think that there are fewer issues than it would appear in getting it up and running.
I was just curious if there's a way to look at it online?
Mark up another lost benefit for the folks who have no idea what a smart phone is, are not gonna buy a phone to just use this, who think an ap is short hand for an apple pie, and who see the move to put every thing online as just validation for NOT carrying on with this organization...........There are folks out here who do like to see printed stuff in their hands..........
Yes, it would be valid and real to have the Anon book online; but the above sentiments are not just mine I feel........I need to shut up before I start ranting about in the lastest ON how there are just 3 letters to the editor but 2 pages or more gleaned from online..........The future is not just determined by the whims and desires of editors and leadership of an organization; but also how it's offerings are used.........Must be for some of us, like when we were buckling up the stays on the harness for the Sunday drive to see those smoking, backfiring, and smelly new inventions wheel by.......Just thoughts.........Dennis
A simple PDF format would be fantastic as it could even be downloaded and carried in the net book or even a thumb drive for use elsewhere.
That's definitely a good idea too, and probably the most easily implemented.
An anonymous Luddite member of the MOA recently said ÔÇ£This new fangled technology stuff is not to be trusted to protect our benefitsÔÇØ on his way to create a Luddite pdf file.
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Sorry Greg, I understand and appreciate the Board and staff are charged with protecting the value of the membership benefits but could not resist.
Oh no my bad. On a terrible rainy day in Southern Cal I recieved an email from a UK BMW rider, but not an MOA member. He was having an unresolved issue with his bike and needed my advise 3600 miles away. I called someone on the A-list and explained the situation. The result was he took care of the UK BMW rider from trailering, storage, accomendation and getting him to the dealer.
About three days later I recieve an email from the UK rider asking me how do I know these people. I told him I have no clue but would you like to join the MOA or the dark side cult ? I am not sure if he did or did not but his RTW ( Round the World Tour ) is continuing and he certainly is impressed with his American counterparts.
Was security comprimised ? No, because I made the arrangemnets and introduction.
But But he is was not an MOA member. Well there are many people the MOA markets to that are not so why can't I ? After all its a member driven club.
Can the A Book fall into wrong hands ? Depends on how well its secure, I have one in my top case that is somewhere along Rt 84 west bound in 2005. I am not sure if anyone has found it yet, if you do please call me.
Should the benefit be protected ? Of course, and technology and the members will plot the course.
I'm not sure what you're saying Dennis. How would anyone be losing a benefit by the organization providing the information in another way? There would be no reason not to print the anon book still, so it would be available to anyone to use as they see fit. But to make it available online or as an app, it seems like it can't be that complicated a thing.
All I am saying is that there are a world of us that get out and go BUT; do not have nor will ever have the newest farkle that marketing tries to push......To go to the time, expense, and trouble of installing or purchasing equipment to participate in this worthy idea is simply eliminating a lot of folks............YES, in my travels I do carry a laptop that is totally connected to the internet and used to maintain communications with my bank and friends on here........GPS, IPHONE, IPAD, Text Messaging, Twitter, and on and on will never be in my bags.......Keep it simple...........Dennis
Consider that a PDF file can be duplicated and distributed endlessly. The Anonymous Book could be "reprinted" all over the Internet. If you are in the Anon. book now, would you continue to do so if you thought that you might be contacted by non-BMW MOA members - perhaps many of them? Asked another way, do you think the majority of our members would continue their Anon listing if they couldn't be assured that their offers of help couldn't be limited to only their fellow members? Would people who value the Anon book and see it as a big member benefit continue their memberships if they could get a PDF copy free from a friend?
To go to the time, expense, and trouble of installing or purchasing equipment to participate in this worthy idea is simply eliminating a lot of folks............GPS, IPHONE, IPAD, Text Messaging, Twitter, and on and on will never be in my bags.......Keep it simple...........Dennis