These are great suggestions. Facebook is something i have assiduously avoided, but now perhaps it's time.
Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: Nick Frost <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 4/25/2009 11:09:55 AM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] City University of Santa Fe > > On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > And I still think it is important to pull together the people in > > Santa Fe who feel they benefit from having institutuions of higher > > learning in the city. > > > > I just cant think how. > > > > There is another meeting of the task force from ten to noon THIS > > wednesday, probably it's last meeting. > > Hi Nick; > > My personal bias on the "how" to pull people together is to start with > a group communications mechanism and get some advertising around it > (radio....Mary charlo...@ksfr, article in New Mexican, etc.) While > Facebook is a social networking site, The American Association for the > Advancement of Science has a Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2379175624 > with nearly 3,000 members and such sites can be used as effective > communications methods for groups. The Ning site is another example, > you could create a Ning site "Higher Learning in Santa Fe" for free, > as with Facebook so it would cost nothing other than time. An example > of such a Ning site would be; > > http://cooperative.ning.com/ > > Have a good weekend. > > -Nick > ---------------------------------------- > Nicholas S. Frost > 7 Avenida Vista Grande #325 > Santa Fe, NM 87508 > [email protected] > ---------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
