IU Web and Multimedia Admin Group

Trying to not send posts to Twitter or Facebook

I realized that when I post messages from my gmail account Posterous uses the profile setting I have in place to autopost to Twitter and Facebook. When I am posting to my personal blog this is fine but I do not want this happening when I post to the IU Web and Multimedia Admin group blog. Apparently if we sent a post to posterous@iuwebandmultimediagroup.posterous.com it will not autopost. So, if everything works according to plan this will only be seen by those of you who are subscribing to the group blog. My twitter and facebook peeps will not be getting confused. Thanks Jenny for mentioning this to me. I already saw it on twitter but not facebook as I am a casual facebook user. Alright, lets see what happens.
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Social networking sites

I have set up pages for us on Facebook and Twitter:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/IUWMMC
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-IN/IU-Web-Multimedia-Community/126034498305

Once we have 100 members on the Facebook page we can get a vanity URL.

If you want to be an admin on Facebook let me know, I just have to add you. For twitter, if anyone ever wants to make updates the password is mediacomm .

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Jenny Porter
Media & Event Coordinator
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Indiana University Bloomington
812.855.8897
mypage.iu.edu/~porterjl

Web Site Content

Keith and I met last week to discuss the content and structure of the new Web site in advance of the design contest.  We don’t see this as set in stone, but as a starting point for everyone to consider/debate/improve upon.  We just though it would be important to be able to give some sense of structure to people to use for the design contest.  Step one was to just discuss what information needs to be on the site, and we came up with the following:
identity (one umbrella organization, two user groups)
  • meeting information (times, topics, archives)
  • news (announcements and articles)
  • contact (join group, suggest topics, volunteer, etc)
  • community (members, profiles/portfolios, board members, discussion forums, book reviews)
  • General Links (blogs, articles, items of interest)
  • some type of calendar

    Our next step was to prioritize what information was most important and needed to be on the front page:
    the identity
  • upcoming meetings/topic information
  • sponsors
  • announcements
  • calendar
  • info on how to join

    We  had a long discussion about whether, when, and how the information should be segregated as pertaining to one or the other group.  We decided that ultimately this is really only crucial to the meetings. Many of the articles and links, for example, will be of interest to members of both groups.  However, if we can tag information and allow people to filter it, that would be great.

    Finally we discussed what the main navigational headers should be for the site, and came up with the following:

    Home (see information above on what’s on the home page)
    Meetings (will contain detailed information as well as archives of past meetings)
    Community (membership, profiles/portfolio, board members, book reviews)
    Discussion Forums (might fit better in community but we though it deserved it’s own link)
    Links (blogs, articles, news, basically links to anything that goes outside of the site itself)
    Contact (We’d like to have contextual contact info on every page, i.e. on the meetings page we could have a link that says “suggest a meeting topic” on the community page we’d have a “volunteer” link, etc.  However, it’s also good to have one place that’s very clear to find everything: join, ask questions, suggest topics, etc.)
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    Jay Hagenow
    Multimedia & Digital Technology Specialist
    Media Design and Production
    IUPUI – IT 210C
    535 West Michigan Street,
    Indianapolis, IN  46202-5157
    317-278-2163: work
    317-446-6918: cell

    • Assignments

    Thank you everyone for attending yesterday's meeting. Let's start using this so that we can keep everyone in the loop. I know we have a Google doc and so some transfer of information will need to take place. Also yesterday we all signed up for various assignments. If you would please go ahead and list your assignment here, your preferred contact information, and a brief needs ideas assessment of the role you agreed to take on. It is my hope that this will get the brain storming going and we can start to get some content into our site and to get the other pieces new additional pieces of these groups up and going. IE Jenny mentioned twitter and face book.