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Introductions => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: MILLIREHM on December 21, 2015, 18:17:34

Title: MILLIREHM: Good to have you back
Post by: MILLIREHM on December 21, 2015, 18:17:34: Nice to have Nikongear forum back, being back in the right forum and seeing a lot of Users/Nickname I know (after all these very erratic months)
Greetings from Vienna/Austria

Wolfgang Rehm aka MILLIREHM
Title: Re: MILLIREHM: Good to have you back
Post by: Mike G on December 21, 2015, 18:23:55: Hello Wolfgang I remember you! Some very familiar names here!
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Post by: Akira on December 21, 2015, 18:24:16: Hi, Wolfgang, welcome aboard! Adding your familiar avatar make it even easier to recognize you. :)
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 21, 2015, 18:26:03: Quote from: Akira on December 21, 2015, 18:24:16
Hi, Wolfgang, welcome aboard! Adding your familiar avatar make it even easier to recognize you. :)

Hi Akira
It was just on the way and is done now
:-)
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 21, 2015, 18:26:57: Quote from: Mike G on December 21, 2015, 18:23:55
Hello Wolfgang I remember you! Some very familiar names here!
Hello Mike I also remember you, the guy with special experiences made at Lake Wolfgang :-)
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Post by: Akira on December 21, 2015, 18:29:11: Haha, sorry I was too hasty!
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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on December 21, 2015, 18:33:56: Welcome Wolfgang.

NG is returning towards normalcy.
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 21, 2015, 18:35:07: Quote from: Akira on December 21, 2015, 18:29:11
Haha, sorry I was too hasty!
Don't mind
Just arrived here and it will take me some time to properly accomodate. I assume the interface and structure will be the same tomorrow ;-)
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 21, 2015, 18:39:10: Quote from: Bjørn Rørslett on December 21, 2015, 18:33:56
Welcome Wolfgang.

NG is returning towards normalcy.

Thanks Bjørn
Thats what I am assuming and expecting, continuity, sustainability and sufficient empathy combined with social wisdom
Best wishes to you!

(Difficult years for me in my normal life since 2013 - so I checked in the old NG and then the merged FZ only once in a few months and lately noticed that a lot of people were inactive or gone)
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Post by: Longhiker on December 21, 2015, 18:45:29: Welcome and I'm looking forward to seeing your work.
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Post by: Bruno Schroder on December 21, 2015, 19:20:58: Welcome Wolfgang, I recognize your avatar, indeed.
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 21, 2015, 19:27:05: Thanks longhiker and Bruno

My profile pic has got a high recognicion factor
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Post by: FredCrowBear on December 22, 2015, 03:05:18: Welcome home!
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 22, 2015, 09:12:50: Thank you Fred
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Post by: Jørgen Ramskov on December 22, 2015, 15:34:33: Welcome, another familiar face. It seems the recent change has made a lot of new people aware of this place :)
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 22, 2015, 16:27:59: Well, Dallas sent out a mail that he has sold the old nikongear.com domain and that ther is something like nikongear.net (i had missed that so far due to heaps of work throughout the last month), guess that had some impact and did not only put my nose on the right track
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Post by: armando_m on December 22, 2015, 16:29:56: Good to see you again
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Post by: bjornthun on December 22, 2015, 16:50:06: Hello, Wolfgang!
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Post by: Airy on December 22, 2015, 21:18:12: Welcome back. Grüsse aus Penzing (I was there 16.-19.12)
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Post by: MILLIREHM on December 22, 2015, 23:53:36: Thank you for your special welcome, armando Björnthun and Airy

Yes Penzing is the 14th district of Vienna, i am living in Währing, the 18th
Interesting that you've just been there
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Post by: Erik Lund on January 14, 2016, 10:14:05: Welcome back! ;) With this many seasoned NikonGear participants this site is not only growing in numbers,,, but active participants. So happy to see this collateral venture succeed ;)
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Post by: MILLIREHM on January 14, 2016, 12:58:14: Quote from: Erik Lund on January 14, 2016, 10:14:05
Welcome back! ;) With this many seasoned NikonGear participants this site is not only growing in numbers,,, but active participants. So happy to see this collateral venture succeed ;)
Thank you Erik!
Also very amazed to have you and this forum back - and it looks promising, that this venture will take into account the social prerequirements of a social network and hopefully also the principle "never touch a running system".
And yes currently I have the playroom to be more active- after two some very difficult years.
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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on January 14, 2016, 13:14:09: Building a relation network is important for NG, but not in the [a]social media manner. The NG Meetups are here to stay and over time more of the members will get better acquainted. The requirement for non-anonymity helps foster improved communication as well.

Since the "new" NG is intended as a collective undertaking and we run a low-cost minimum system basically designed to be non-profit, I envision this community has the best prospects for the future. No vested economic interests will intervene.
Title: Re: MILLIREHM: Good to have you back
Post by: MILLIREHM on January 14, 2016, 21:15:05: Quote from: Bjørn Rørslett on January 14, 2016, 13:14:09
Building a relation network is important for NG, but not in the [a]social media manner. The NG Meetups are here to stay and over time more of the members will get better acquainted. The requirement for non-anonymity helps foster improved communication as well.

Since the "new" NG is intended as a collective undertaking and we run a low-cost minimum system basically designed to be non-profit, I envision this community has the best prospects for the future. No vested economic interests will intervene.

Did not intend to contradict to that when I used the widespread term social network as a vague shell, sure nothing asocial here.
What I had in mind is the erratic changes in the old Nikongear site, may it been design and rapid switches from ad- based to crowdfunding models on the one hand.
And: most important for the decline of old Nikongear IMHO: the limited understanding of the Boss how group-dynamics work and that group members at least need the illusion that they can participate and are not purely subject of the mood of a person who just follows his own thing gets very unpolite if the group does not follow him and then still acts against his promises and turns it towards his initial route.

I have a way better feeling how things go and develop here now based on the personalities of the responsibles for this revival and that is good