[Sigia-l] SIG-IA group on Facebook - do or die?

[Paola Kathuria]

Donna Maurer wrote:
>>There are at least three other IA facebook groups: Information
>>Architecture, Information architecture and Information Architecture
>>Institute. Some are even starting to get activity ;)

Andrew Boyd wrote:
> Let there be a hundred groups!

Why?

> CC Paola: is there a way of displaying group activity in home/profile
> page that you know of? The only reason I don't contribute more is that
> I get busy and forget the groups are there without the pushed
> reminder. There are only so many attention balls that my poor head can
> juggle at the moment :)

Putting groups within the Facebook walled garden makes them
hard to use. I wrote about this a month ago in the FB SIG-IA
group and only you responded.

You can get updates when someone's replied to a board post
(not a wall) in account -> notifications. Or (as I recently
discovered) click the Groups link under Applications on the
left to see recent activity (by type) of your and your
friend's groups.

I also found that the extra click to get to the discussion
threads (and that it only shows the three most recently-active
threads) put me off using the boards. I much prefer Walls on
the group home page.

Facebook is a popular social network but it's not THE ONE.
It is based on a networking site for students for finding a
girl/boyfriend. Another foundation is needed for a
general-purpose network. And, sure, have privacy settings
for personal information but don't put all the UGC behind
a login.


Paola, member of one less FB group
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