As far as I know, there is no central gathering point for state or other affiliates’ Facebook page URLs. So, I thought I’d start a thread with the idea of collecting as many as possible. (If I am wrong about this, please point me to the repository.)
These are the few state affiliate FB pages of which I am aware…but I suspect there are many more out there. I’m just too lazy to go searching for them.
There’s a field in the club directory information for a club website URL, but not specifically for a Facebook URL. I’ll mention this to Phil after the holidays.
That’s probably a lot more work than having separate fields, and doesn’t require the affiliate to have to choose whether their Twitter account is more important to them than their Facebook page.
On the other hand, what are the odds that there will be new social networks arising? Having five (to pull a number out of the air) pairs of fields (network type and network account) would allow adding more networks without having to modify the database to add a new field for the network. Granted, the extremely social clubs that are on every network would have to choose the most important, but most clubs would be covered.
I think the odds approach 100% over time, because NOTHING is more constant in technology than change. I remember a time when fax machines were the cutting edge, then the standard, and now are quaint almost archaic means of sending data. And remember when EVERYBODY had to have a Blackberry? Not all that long ago, either!
On Sunday, I found myself meeting with my First Robotics team for the first time. I’m going to be mentoring the team from the local high school, and it was our first meeting to discuss the newly announced game rules for the upcoming season.
At one point, we were discussing recruiting people, and social media was one of the tools. One of the parents said, “Post something about the Open House on your Facebook page, if anyone uses Facebook anymore. Does anyone outside of my generation use Facebook?” No hands.
If I had any Facebook stock, I would have gone home and entered a sell order.
Interestingly enough, when I told my wife the story about the Robots league and Facebook, she was NOT surprised. She works with college students, Facebook is considered ‘old technology’ on campus these days, at least among students.
As best I can tell, kids are using Skype for direct communication with people they want to communicate with, instead of broadcasting their existence to the entire world.
Instagram seems pretty significant, but I don’t even know what it is, other than a place to post pictures to.
For team collaboration, it was generally agreed that various things google had were the best options. We had a commonly edited google doc for remote brainstorming, and some sort of common video-chat-like thing that I didn’t recognize, but which all the kids seemed to think was a good idea.
