Many kinds of work

[wolven7]

In addition to the articles about magic I'm working on, I've been trying t o come up with a proposal for a New Media/Networking Connectivity operation, for my old high school.

I think that the means and modes of keeping in touch with students as well as alumni can be expanded, connected, and streamlined, in terms of both function and form. Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, Blogs, even Myspace; all of these can be used in the various ways to which they are suited to keep those who still feel themselves a part of the school community more directly in touch with the events of said community. The more connected and apprised people remain, the more they will want to help, to put what assistance they can into the school, and the people therein.

Just thinking out loud, really, but this is also for those of you, here, for whom it means anything, but who may not have heard that Les had a Stroke, about a month ago, and is just now back in and around the school.

The measures I'm talking about implimenting would mean that no one is left in the dark about these kinds of things, in the future, and the response time for rendering assistance would be cut Way down.

Thoughts?

Comments

[sammhain.livejournal.com]

Do you know Wes? (aka Wu)He's the man when it comes to networking mojo.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

No, I don't know him. Would he have some tips for getting it all together?

But, honestly, I'm thinking that, because of the nature of the school, it needs to be someone from the inside of their community who puts it together, and keeps it working. I'd like it to be me, but I don't think I have the know-how, and it should actually probably be a current student or more recent alumnus.

See, the students and teachers literally built this school from the ground up. Over time and with the death of the founder and principle, a kind of downturn has occurred the kind of dedication and connection people have felt to the institution and the experiment. I think that this, along with some other, larger things, could be the kind of thing to help pull people back together.

Or at least that's my hope.

[styossarian.livejournal.com]

Oops. Completely forgot to add you and mech_angel to my "Magic(k)" filter. That's an error, obviously (particularly since moonandserpent's introduction came from one of the posts thus filtered). Remedied.

To actually add some relevant comments: If I understand you correctly, I'm in agreement regarding what could (and really ought) to be done. Exciting, that both the hardware and software to implement such a thing is so ubiquitous at this point. Short of an always-on HUD (which you could probably grind out, if you really wanted), it's remarkably easy to get as much info as is out there. Unless there's someone (or a group of people) willing to play caretaker as far as keeping things updated, though, it's television tuned to a dead channel, to borrow a phrase. Interesting to think about what that means for community building in the mid-late Info Age.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Interesting to think about what that means for community building in the mid-late Info Age.

Exactly. There is no excuse, in this day and age, for people in a technologically-ubiquitous society like our own, for families, friends, communities to be out of touch, about important things, for any great amount of time.

Text messages with notes to "Call Please. Important," or a Twitter post to say, "Hey everyone, so and so had the Babies!," or a mass message sent via Facebook to plan a community event, or an LJ community to brainstorm changes and plans.

Things like that.