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With well over 1000 members now it would be interesting to know how everyone discovered this little neck of the snows.
Another question - not on the poll - snowHeads has grown somewhat organically up to now. Is that the best way, or should we 'artificially' stimulate the growth of the community?
And one other thing - how big should snowHeads be?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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On the Ski Club site, when everyone disappeared!!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I used Google - straight here! 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Someone told me about snowHeads on the newsgroup rec.skiing.resorts.europe after I posted about Skiboard.com - I was desperately looking for an alternative to the SCGB forum. Thanks to whoever it was!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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I had an email from Ian Hopkinson via Laura Z from the SCGB address list.
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Not a SCGB member, I saw the 'demise' of their forum discussed on usenet - rec.skiing.resorts.europe - with a mention of both Alan Cragg's alternative forum, and snowHeads. SnowHeads had gathered a little more momentum, so I ended up here.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Found out by people taking about snowheads on SCGB site put snoehead into google and the rest is history as they say.
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Same as Russell.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Russell, hope they were being nice about us! 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Received email from Laura on SCGB !
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After members only day at the ski club of greater brentford I hung around Meister Jäger's site - skiboard.com - for a day or two, then someone on there posted about this site and I popped in for a nosey.
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You know it makes sense.
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marc gledhill, I can't claim any responsibility for skiboard.com. I just found it myself when looking for a "new home". I think the founder was someone called Marco.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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saw it mentioned on news:rec.skiing.resorts.europe after the SCGB closed its doors
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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typed in google 'snow forum'
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I was a member of SCGB on MO day and there were references to snowHeads on there from very early on - I also knew about Alan Craggs www.skicardiff.com site where a forum now exists...
Comment by Alan Craggs:- sorry for butting in here Ian (and thanks for the plug) but that forum, although still in existence, is closed to new postings - all enquiries have been re-directed here )
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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should we 'artificially' stimulate the growth of the community?
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What do you have in mind David ??? A free sticker on joining - doubt if snowHeads has the finances for anything else. The SCGB linking to us (or at least acknowledging us more prominently when they 'borrow' from our posts or links) would definitely help spread the word - but I don't think they will link. A mention in the quality Sundays would be useful publicity and costs nothing but some time and effort. Even if they don't want a full page spread, maybe we could get one to sneak in a mention somewhere.
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kuwait_ian, I was thinking of a kind of artificial snowHead gun that blows special snowHead crystals which turn into human beings.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Yes, ideal, it probably just requires a simple conversion kit. And I don't know which direction to fire it.
er...any more anecdotes of how we all became snowHeads? I do believe Elisabeth B emailed me in the first instance and then I took the magic crystals.
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The day we were kicked out of "the other place" I logged onto www.skicardiff.com and from there found my way here
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thank you for the welcome. Revenue generation seems quite important, is accepting skiing advertising a no-no?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I was emailed by another snowhead when The SCGB website closed to nonmembers saying everyone was now here  .
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snowbunny, there are the snowShops - they will give a percentage (typically 1-5%), if anything is bought through snowHeads. I guess that's ski=ing advertising. snowHeads fund raising is generally a rather subtle affair
Currently new snowHeads are arriving at an ever increasing rate; this week 60 joined, last week 50, the week before that 40...this is a relatively recently established increase following the quiet summer months. If we're aiming for higher numbers, we should think about how to maintain snowHeads friendly feel, although I'm happy to talk to any snowHead, sometimes I feel I've lost my old friends in the crowd.
For a historical comparison, this a similar poll started just after snowHeads was born:
http://www.snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=132
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You know it makes sense.
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I was a regular contributor to SCGB (under a different name) before MO day, tried to argue the case their to get them to reverse their decision for a couple of days, no luck, had already been told by admin that this was going to happen, so decided to drop in.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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From discussion on SCGB site
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Poster: A snowHead
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Again form discussion on the SCGB site.
Regarding how big? - no more that 5ft!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I saw a mention of it on the internet so I checked it out.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks to the efforts of Liz B!!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Ian Hopkinson, thanks for flagging that old thread up. Note the 'vote counter' there - - - - Voted : 4 Total Votes : 112. Just a bit off. This one has started to drift too. I think the polls were OK until Admin introduced the multi-vote option; since when the counters sometimes get out-of-step, even on a simple single vote poll. I've mentioned this a couple of times before and I guess it's not a simple fix for Admin. No big deal. About the only glitch there is on the site (apart from the drop down menus in the opinion of some users).
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Epic ski sent me here! 
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I was getting fed up of Rob being constantly on his Subaru forum and thought I ought to find my own forum. Then it was a case of 'but what am I interested in because I certainly aren't interested in cars', obviously it was skiing, so I used a search engine probably Yahoo but I'm not sure. I just find the amount of knowledge is amazing, from the annual ski holiday people to those who work in the business. Well done to admin
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Via RSRE where PG suggested I take a look at snowheads. I've not visited RSRE since that time!
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Was a poster on the old scgb forum, but came back from hols to find it shut.........after a few months in wilderness, I think it was an e-mail from laura/ian hopkinson.
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