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IdeasForReunionFeatures we would like to have for a Virtual Reunion
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Suggestions (Post Reunion)
assemble - but it is something all chapters could 'use'.... (Roger) Suggestions:
Re: Call for Volunteers -- Virtual Reunion -- Help!
Maybe you could emphasize smart phones - most can upload a photo directly to Facebook or Twitter. Twitter can integrate with Wordpress to keep it updated. Similarly, Wordpress posts can be created from a smart phone. Some phones today have really good cameras. This could be the primary method, with a PC on site for people to upload higher-quality pictures from actual cameras.
Re: Call for Volunteers -- Virtual Reunion -- Help!
Give everyone who wants a Wordpress account and they can post from their smart phone (you can still hold postings for approval by an editor if you want): http://www.facebook.com/l/302eb;wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/smartphone Also, tell everyone to tweet using '@' and '#' tags so they they will show up on whatever Twitter account you set up.
Maybe we could live skype video chat some people in. Perhaps during the decade receptions we could have some virtual attendees via laptop and wireless ? (assuming there is wireless in the tents, do we know if that's happening?) (Matt B.) There is supposed to be wireless in the tent, south, and King ctr. (Ozz)
So if that's possible, we should be able to find a way to put people together who are spread all around the world. but all love antioch as much as i do. my suggestion: find a good conference-call video software, agree upon a time and switch us all together with video - the alumni gathered in yellow springs, perhaps kelly hall with a big screen - and a couple of dozens of us "remotely" switched in on video.
This would not only be a fun way to gather and exchange ideas at a reunion. it would also be a promising way to run courses. there is no way i could participate in teaching in yellow springs,
for example. but i would love to teach students about tv journalism via video-conferencing, where we could talk, swap video, etc. take care, greetings from dubai, jay
News from today, new feature in twitter; if it happens it will be a real cool way to answer some of these questions:
Earlier this year we predicted that Twitter would use geotagging to identify physical places via Twitter, and today Evan Williams announced at the Chirp conference that the company is doing just that with its new Points of Interest feature.
The feature doesn’t appear to be live yet, but soon users will have the ability to click on a place name — included in geotagged tweets — to view the particular place on a map. Next to the map, Twitter users will see a stream of nearby tweets, giving them a real-time view of what’s happening in a particular place at a particular time.
Evan Williams asserts that Points of Interest is not meant to “duplicate the functionality of Foursquare (Foursquare) or Gowalla (Gowalla),” but instead to “make those services work better with Twitter … What we really care about is the content happening at that place.”
So while Twitter has no plans to get into the checkin business per se, Points of Interest will make it easier for third party applications to support that type of functionality and it will enable Twitter to aggregate location-specific tweets.
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