Facebook

[Nflight]

Let me Ponder this a little farther then my self-absorbed first post.

Yes it would place our Team in Cyber Space in the Facebook Realm. YES - I am a facebook user. Actually I helped co-develop BOINC Milestones! Let me look into putting in place a FAN Page. and we can use some of the working that are currently on our Wiki and other resources NeoGen has been hard at work on for the past several years. I can include our Stats pages and so on and so on. [The more you display for the future Team Member to read the more curious they become. Several other pages are dismal and lackluster due to not enough information presented to the public to read about]

Please any comments on this. The more information you have on your web page the better we can encourage people to take grasp and put there computers to work for us!

Since I am involved with the BOINC Milestones developers I think I can wiggle our Team Page into being posted Each time one of our Current active Team Mates using BOINC Milestone would achieve another milestone. This is a possibility, this way people would not leave Facebook but be re-directed to a page in-sighting interesting new words to help encourage people to sign up and join our team over the nemesis other 3,000 Teams out there.

Maybe a comment from NeoGen about placing a lot from the Wiki in this fan page-? Thinking outside the box here....

[Bok]

It already puts the link to the team on the post to facebook in my BOINC milestones app (if you are a member of a team that is) - happens for everyone though the link back is dependent on having a correct url on the projects team settings but that's usually correct.

Always a good way to advertise your team

I've actually had 6 people mail me via the app to say they have joined BOINC directly because they saw a post from my app on one of their friends walls

Bok

[NeoGen]

Maybe a comment from NeoGen about placing a lot from the Wiki in this fan page-? Thinking outside the box here....

Use whatever you can from the wiki Nflight

[shnal]

Hi guys,

I know some people are rightly worried about the availability of their personal information.

Facebook has configuration options in place to allow you to specify which parts of your profile are available to others.

I would create a facebook group "AMD Users Distributed Computing Team" or similar. Each member here that wanted to join it would need a facebook account. It's up to you what information you add to it and make available to others. Then you could join the new group.

When you join the group, your facebook friends will be able to see the group on your page, they might then join, then group would become available on their profile pages, and perhaps then their friends join too etc... (or that's the idea anyway).

The point is... For it to have the effect of increasing the numbers here, it's best for you guys to have a facebook account and join the new facebook group. If you set up a facebook account "minimally" (don't add your employment history for example), and then review the privacy options (eg specify that friends of friends cannot see your profile etc), it should be safe. It's up to you to ensure that only people you trust can see your information.

Perhaps I'll go ahead and create the group, I can always close it at a later date.