Summertime and some thoughts
Hello Everyone!
Sorry for the silence. Jessie and I have been on an extended roadtrip visiting family. I hope summer is treating everyone well! I just wanted to post a few thoughts and I would love to get feedback either in the comments or at the class officers email.
1. 10th Reunion is now less than 2 years away and we have to start organizing and planning. I think it would be wonderful if we could have a few people be reunion leads responsible for recruiting volunteers, taking opinon polls, and encouraging people to come. Because I know we are all extemely busy, it would be great to get a handful of people who would be the contact for all 99ers from a small group of houses. My hope is that having everything broken down will make the work of contacting everyone more manageable and not overwhelm a single person. Ideally it would be great to get one reunion lead from each house, this would make the work load very small and make me die of excitment. Is this something anyone would be interested in helping with? Would this work for you?
2. Blogger has become a bit of a pain and we are looking into moving the blog to wordpress. If we move it over we will be able to offer more functionality and integrate the blog into a domain I purchased for the class. The change would not happen for a while, but I'm just trying to plan ahead. Anyone have any objections or ideas as to why the switch would be a bad idea? Of course, there will be a link from here to there so that everyone can get to the right place.
3. I have updated the classmates link section. Please let us know if your name is still missing or something is incorrect.
4. If you are in the Providence, Rhode Island area keep your eyes open for an email announcing a Smithie pub gathering hosted by the class of 1999. Not sure when it will happen, but it will be sometime in the next month.
Take care all and keep in touch with us!
Tiffany
Labels: 1999, Blog details, Class Operations
posted by Smith College Class of '99 @ 6:14 PM
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what functionality do you want that blogger's not giving you? just curious :-)
i have also had an idea about our 10th reunion. i think it would be fun to do a podcast of members of the class who would like to talk about what's happened in their lives since smith, and how smith shaped them. it could be a way for class members to learn more about and reconnect with their classmates in the year leading up to the reunion. it would also become an oral history of what life was like for educated women in our time, and could serve to inspire young women we refer to it. we could follow up with the same or other 99ers at later reunions.
if anyone is interested in being interviewed or is a podcasting genius, email me and if there is enough momentum i'll take it on.
Hi Katherine
The reason I am contemplating a move to Wordpress is that they are SEO compatible and have more flexibility to add additional pages. Currently, we are not being found by search engines because blogger is not search engine friendly. They also have better usability features for administrators so you don't accidentally overwrite your template (like we accidentally did a few weeks back).
We will see what happens, but I think it would be great to have more options and flexibility as we develop reunion materials.
Oh and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the podcasting idea. Let's talk soon!
tiffany
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