Change

This story on Facebook use by adults from this morning’s News and Observer, “Grown-ups like Facebook, too,” should be available to the public for at least a week.
One thing I hadn’t thought of: using your alumni e-mail address can get you connected to a college network. It did emphasize using your “real name,” so I’m [...]

I created a group for a high school reunion, more to see what the group creation process is like for the admin than really expecting those celebrating a 40th reunion to change their behavior and switch over to Facebook. [They haven't really been using the Yahoo! group/e-mail list established for the 35th, so why would [...]

Okay, I’ve progressed somewhat with facebook. I may eventually come around to “no, just don’t go there,” but I’m beginning to see the lure of its community building features. Will it turn out to be a solution for AAUW? I can’t tell yet, but here’s what I’ve seen so far.
The whole system is *very* centered [...]

Okay, I’ve been experimenting with Facebook for a couple of weeks. I really *want* to like it, but I just find it frustrating.

It’s easy to create “groups” but there seems to be very little support for “networks” that would support national membership organizations. For instance, there are now two groups named “American Association of [...]

If you don’t quite “get” what I’m recommending with the aauwtech tag at del.icio.us (see also http://del.icio.us/tag/aauwtech),

for a quick intro.
Thanks to CommonCraft (check out their other “plain English” videos) and to Jeff Cobb and Mission to Learn for the reminder.
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