Managing our local state, county, city and region
groups
created November 20, 2020 @ 3:45 PM EST
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Pull up the members list... we need a few more admins to get members in when
a request is received and to remove trolls and nuisance ' members '.
I usually let the local admins take care of this so they know their members
and I just added a new member in the Massachusetts State group that may need
verified locally. I can't do it from remote ( I live in Florida ) and the
local members have a better idea who the people are.
These groups are mainly to get people to know each other for local meeting
in their areas and to meet people in other areas by joining the main United
States Minutemen group here on MeWe for news and events.
https://mewe.com/join/unitedstatesminutemen
I had a group for every county of every state on trashbook ( that was '
disabled ' along with all of our admins and most if not all of the members
in a matter of minutes on August 19, 202 at 4:30 PM EST ) but have not spent
the 7 months building all of them on this platform or the other social media
sites. If the state admins want to create the local county, city or ' region
' groups, they are more than welcome to... just update the state and
territory spread sheets in our main group area file system ( so we can all
find them if needed )... I removed all the addresses containing a facebook
link so it is basically empty with just all the county names and some other
information. ( I use the free MSoffice excel compatible CALC program
included in ' Apache Open Office ' ... https://www.openoffice.org/ )
This link takes you to the main group file area(s) ... look for ' Spread
Sheets - Links and URL Locations '
https://mewe.com/group/5eda79380f2ffc017605679a/documents
MeWe is the only place I spent the time creating the new state groups to
make it easier for people to join and start building our structures back
up... we lost many years of work by staying in that one social media site
and many items in our files systems at the state levels that the members had
added.
Luckily for us, I use our own personal web server built from the Windows '
optional features ' included in the operating system on a laptop to keep a
copy of the set of spread sheets with all our information in it and have it
backed up regularly ( usually in a couple of formats... the regularly
windows backups to the external USB drive(s) and I copy the entire set of
the 30 web pages and assorted files out to USB flash drives and now to a
MicroSD 1TB memory card that has decreased in price to about $15 the last
one I bought from Amazon.com )
If anybody is interested in making their own home web server out of an old
or inexpensive PC or laptop and getting it connected to the internet, check
out our group here.
https://mewe.com/join/minutemeninformationtechnologies
I had a backup laptop but a power blip down here apparently caused the main
laptop to fail ( or just real old age since I bought both of the laptops in
2011<G> ) and I had to swap the internal disk drive into the backup to keep
the web server online.
I am waiting until after the first of the year to get another inexpensive
laptop ( I try to only spend about $250 and then upgrade the memory myself )
to keep here ' in case ' since I am on SSD and do not have the resources
since this is all voluntary and comes out of my pocket and if you follow me,
you know I was stuck in Ohio for about 14 months due to hitting a damn big
pothole ( maybe a land mine<G> ) in South Carolina in August of last year
and barely made it to Ohio for my doctors and had to replace pieces for
months that keep going out ( one damn thing after another<G> ) until I
finally made it back home near the first of October.
Keep the fires burning, Patriots ! <G>