I went to Roy Brandt's three-hour workshop "Facebook for Businesses and Non-Profits" at the Aspen CMC campus recently--it was standing room only--we had to keep getting more chairs and in the end a several people had to sit on the floor! I found the seminar very useful for two reasons:
1. I may start using a Facebook page for each of my CMC classes in the fall--Composition I and II, Humanities, and Intro to Lit. I'll try to be good and post some course materials on Blackboard, but honestly, BB is a pain. I change my courses so much from term to term that revising a BB shell is a black hole in terms of time. So fb will be better for updates for students and stuff like that. PLUS, students actually USE fb daily, which cannot generally be said for BB. You can be sure that most students will get a message posted there.
2. I have started a fb page for the Aspen Choral Society, of which I am a new Board member. Roy's class helped with that, too, and got me up to speed to add video and YouTube links, streams of the concert CDs and DVDs, and also frequent updates. It turns out that frequent updates are key to getting return hits to a Web site.
Christie Smith, RF Campus
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