Michelle has added some new things

[Jackie]

Michelle emailed me with some new online sites. She has really worked hard to let us connect every way imaginable thru social networking. To her dismay when she tried to get a Twitter acct she found out that someone had already taken UnoMas and UnoMas21!!!!! She can't figure out WHO would want our name...but she has signed on as close as she could. I will give you the new sites.

Heres some links for Uno Mas group pages if you are already on any of these:
Flickr: www.flickr.com/groups/unomas21
(PhotoBucket: gs170.photobucket.com/groups/u248/MKW6PZWYM1/ I think there's an easier url .. just can't remember it now.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/uno_mas_21
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/unomas/238239737084

I tried to take these from an email from her so hope it comes out ok.

Thanks Michelle

Jackie

[Emilysmom]

Very cool! ! ! Thanks Michelle!!! I haven't had time to check out any of them but Facebook, but I was so glad to find Michelle there!!

[wrblack]

Yes. Michelle has been very busy. Thanks again, Michelle.
I had already set up a Flickr account, not sure why. But this made me finally cave and sign up to Facebook. Happy to see Cbean was already there.
Will be interesting to see how this turns out. -- Bob

[Googsmom aka Jennifer]

Yeaaa Michelle {{{{HUGS}}}}} What a woman!!!

OMGoodness, Bob is a facebooker now LOL Yeaaa to that too

[Jackie]

I just hope with all this social networking we don't forget to come here and post......

[wrblack]

Yep, spending way too much time signing up, setting up, exploring. But I haven't tried to answer the TV remote yet, though would be easy enough to do. What I need is a remote that will ring or buzz and light up if you call it with your phone. Google could probably make one and sell it to you for about $500. -- Bob

[Jackie]

Oh Dear Bob...I should never have become your friend...LOL....

Jackie

[lorraine]

and I'm guilty of spending too much time on Facebook already......

Lorraine

[wrblack]

Early score:

Facebook -- 37

Flickr -- 4

Photobucket -- maybe 2 or 3

Twitter -- don't know, don't twit

But nobody's posting photos nowhere. Must have misread the pent up demand for sharing photos. But early innings yet. I need to take a new photo with my new phone for my new phone, which I'm still struggling to learn. -- Bob

[Emilysmom]

Bob,
There are photos on Facebook.........well at least there are on mine. Go to each person's page and click on photos.
It's really easy to upload them there. You can add captions, etc and people comment on the photos.
I don't twitt either. Or is it tweet?
I love the chat feature at facebook too.

[wrblack]

Yep, figured that out. Some people have more photos than others. Dolly's Eric is one handsome dude.
But no one is putting photos in group albums. Will have to play with that to see how it works. -- Bob

[Michelle Mc]

HI! Thanks Jackie, for posting those links. I've fallen into the black hole of facebook and I can't get out! Oh my gosh, it's crazy how quickly things happen on FB. More than a little overwhelming. I had set up the page for Uno Mas and then most spent time trying to figure out how Facebook works in general.

I could barely figure out how to access the UM page again. By the time I did, I was amazed to find that the page already had almost 40 fans! That was such a cool surprise! (You guys always surprise me with your capacity for kindness and your enthusiasm for UM). One thing I discovered is that if the UM fan page had at least 25 fans, we were allowed to get a shorter url (link) to our FB page. Cool! So now it can be accessed simply through: www.facebook.com/unomas21 Ah, much better without all those slashes and numbers!

Things on Facebook seem so fast paced.. frenetic, is that a word? It's a ADD persons nightmare or dream. (that may be me). Suddenly coming on the UM Bulletin Board seems downright peaceful and comforting! I like it here.

I'm going to post this and then write another post regarding the photo album/s.

Michelle

[Michelle Mc]

Hey Bob, I was noticing the same thing about the group albums. I'd had the new photo album up for about a month, and it didn't seem to catch on. I thought maybe people didn't want to sign up for another log in! It was confusing .. were they logging into the BB? Logging into UM as a whole? Logging with the old photo album username?

It also occurred to me that people might already be sharing with eachother on Flickr or Photobucket privately, and that maybe they would just want to share a few of those photos into an Uno Mas "Pool." I went ahead and put those options up on the homepage too. And described the 3 options here: unomas21.com/photo-gallery/

But everytime I go to the UM homepage and see all those little mini albums on the front page, I think:

1. This is confusing. How is anyone going to know what they are supposed to do here?

2. This is embarrassing. It's just pictures of Casey and me plastered all over the place!

I decided just to let it ride. Maybe one of the options would reveal itself as the undisputed winner. Should become really obvious which service people were already using. But that hasn't really happened.

Now, just to make things even more confusing ... I've discovered a whole world of activity happening on Facebook! So that's where everybody is! Honestly, I think that's is going to be the solution. The nice thing about the Uno Mas Facebook page is that people can see it without being a member. But they can't really add to, comment or interact on it, unless they are a FB member and a UM Fan. (not actually sure about that one).

Also, as UM Fans contribute their photos or links to their photos ... that person completely controls the privacy for their individual pictures or comments. It's fantastic. It's so much more than I could ever manage to set up on our own. Well, Flickr and Photobucket do the same thing, but ... I guess if you are not already on there ... then, it means yet another thing to sign up for! I think it gets tiresome trying to manage all those logins.

Personally, I like that each Facebook user can set their own privacy settings, even for what shows up on the UM Fan page. ( www.facebook.com/unomas21 )

As I've been using FB this week, I keep thinking "How wierd. This is what I was trying to do with Uno Mas back in the 1990's. This was my idea! I thought of facebook first!" (just kidding) It's like those Windows commercials: "Windows 7 was my idea."

But remember Dale from EZpics? I was just thinking about how he tried to set up those Uno Mas User Pages for us. Remember those? Seems like a million years ago. Maybe facebook was Dale's idea.

Can't remember what my point was now. Oh! The photo albums... I do need to make it less confusing. I may try to make a "master album" that displays the photos of all three options. And people can just go right on using what they already use. That would be neat.

Michelle

[ALLISA]

I'm not a fan of Twitter....they limit your words SO much...but....anyone who has friends that DO twitter....you can very easily link your FB page to a Twitter account....and every time you use FB, it automaticaally copies it into Twitter.....