Archive for January, 2008

Behind the scenes

January 27, 2008

Hello again. Things are going on behind the scenes to prepare for the big event. The event of course, is our 40th college reunion. (I just need to say that from time to time in an effort to establish the fact for myself. It still seems a bit unreal.) Classmates are volunteering to help us in various ways and Rhea and I really appreciate their interest and support.
Wendy Wilson Hilty has agreed to work on fund raising for our class gift, Kathie and Joanie have agreed to stay on through Reunion as our class secretaries, Susan Mills has offered to help Wendy, and Rhea and I are making slow progress with the blog launch. Pam Sheradin of the Alumnae Office has offered to help us in any way she can. We have planned to not only contact people by email, but also through snail mail, because we recognize that there are different communication preferences. I’d like to thank Wendy, Kathie, Joanie, Susan, and Pam for their efforts to make our reunion a fun, unique, historic, and memorable experience.

Just a thought about the blog…if you have photos that you’d like to scan and upload with your posts, please feel free to do so. Images add so much. If you have audio or video files to share here that would also be very cool. We’ll have to figure out how that works. But you know us…we’ll get it done! Look below the post box for a list of the file types that are possible.

Hello Classmates!

January 8, 2008

Tonight I am practicing posting on our reunion blog for the fun of it. I have been exploring various features of wordpress.com. Here are just a few things I’ve discovered. Once you have set up a username and password at wordpress.com, I encourage you to look around the site, and our blog too.  There’s some interesting material to read at wordpress.com There isn’t much at our site yet because it is just on the brink of its launch.

At the general site if you are interested, explore the faq’s, the information about usernames, the various statuses of posts, the story behind wordpress.com, and/or the meaning and uses of tags. (They are just subject categories that search engines will hit as they search on the open web.) As you get used to this method of communication, be sure to add tags to your posts before you publish so others interested in the subjects you have discussed can also find your message.

Rhea is preparing an email message about this blog to everyone for whom we have a working address . It is definitely a work in progress so I hope you will explore with us.

I just wanted to drop by this virtual space and say hello on this Monday night. I send greetings to anyone who might be a Wells’68 classmate, or a surfer interested in college reunions,(especially those for women’s colleges,) or someone doing research on new uses of web 2.0 software for social communication.

When you look at out site you’ll see that you can log in at meta, and then choose to write. You can just begin to type as I have. When are you are done writing you can scroll down and save, or go ahead and publish. That’s what I am going to do right now.

Best to all-

Carroll