Mike Butcher - mbites

Great conversation starter ... yet as always I guess it depends what you want to do. The other issue I'm seeing is the growth of Facebook groups with nowhere to go. Flag up a cause, a topic, and a couple of hundred people may join the group without too much effort on the part of the promoter. A lot easier than doing recruitment to Ning or (old style) on a mailing list. But once everyone is there, what next? Discussion is limited because there are no feeds or alerts beyond personal replies. No easy ways to collaborate ... so you you may have to migrate out to something. Hmmm .... perhaps a mailing list/Google group would do it. Old skool, but works. The personal dynamics and functions are very different from the group ones. Maybe Facebook is a good gathering place, but for the moment the party may have to move to another venue to do something together.