Join discussion here on relative merits of different social network platforms.

Ideas

• Create Facebook Groups for each campus service center
• Create Facebook Groups for each major service project at a campus
• Encourage as many students as possible to join Facebook so they can network with others doing service on their campus and the nationally
• Experiment with Facebook App my!TeamPlanner for service project team management (or use a wiki...see below)
• In addition to Facebook (which is a good choice because it is widely used by students), we want to experiment with plug-ins or links with other social networking tools that can work to network campus-based centers, groups, clubs, departments, and others engaged in service.  We need to expand coordination of already-existing efforts in order to enhance them and engage new volunteers and supporters.

Examples

• We set up a Facebook Group -- Serve 2.0 Working Group -- to facilitate networking among people interested in this initiative.
• We have a facebook page for our office and have been thinking about placing an ad--targeted, e.g., to folks who say they're in the Class of 2012. We can send updates to "fans," they can upload photos or videos, and we have set up the site to grab RSS feeds from our blog to import as notes. 

Resources

• Facebook Best Practices for Non-Profits
• Facebook Best Practices
• Facebook for Nonprofit Beginners: Learn the Basics of this Online Social Networking Tool May, 2009
• Bonner Congress Social Media Feature: Facebook 

Articles

• FACEBOOK, MEET BLACKBOARD: Course-management giant -- realizing students gravitate to social networking site over an academic one -- tries to get them to do both at the same time.

• A FACEBOOK APP FOR EVERY OCCASION ... EVEN RECRUITING: SUNY Plattsburgh, looking to broaden its applicant pool and generate buzz, turns to social networking for a bottom-up, "authentic" approach.

• Taking Facebook Back to Campus

• How Facebook Makes You Happier, NYTimes 1/29/09

• On Networking Sites, Learning Not to Share, NYTimes 1/29/09

• Facebook: Civic Strengths and Weaknesses Petere Levine 2/15/09