a look at danah boyd (The lowercase is not a mistake as you will see when =
you read her material). She has done and continues to do great work in the =
area of trying to understand youth and the social web.
Chris Bigenho
Greenhill School
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From: A forum for independent school educators [ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On=
Behalf Of Bill Fitzgerald [dwfitzgerald@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 6:34 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Email for Alums
RE:
> I think we need to rethink how we are staying in contact with our
alums. I
> love email and use it all the time, but that is not
really what the kids use
> anymore.
I've seen this mentioned all over the place, but does anyone have any data =
to support this?
The closest I have come is http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1484/social-media-mo=
bile-internet-use-teens-millennials-fewer-blog which states:
* 73% of wired American teens now use social networking websites, a
significant increase from previous surveys. Just over half of online
teens (55%) used social networking sites in November 2006 and 65% did so in=
February 2008.
* As the teen social networking population has increased, the
popularity of some sites' features has shifted. Compared with activity
in February 2008, a smaller proportion of teens in mid-2009 were sending da=
ily messages to friends via social networking sites, or sending
bulletins, group messages or private messages on the sites. My assumption: =
most (all?) social networking sites require an email address to sign up. So=
, close to 73% of all American teens have an email address. And while havin=
g an address is not the same as checking it for email, it's hard to say tha=
t with such widespread use that email is going away anytime soon
As to the question of maintaining email for alums, I have seen the demand f=
or this decrease over time. When email use was less widespread, and these e=
lectronic messages still felt exotic, schools felt there was some cache in =
offering them to alums. However, as alums moved on to college, they wanted =
to use their college email. And the final nail in the coffin of email for a=
lums was GMail.
As Steve said earlier in the thread, I generally see Development offices ad=
vocating for this. In the few cases where I have seen this offered, it has =
landed with an under-appreciated thud.
Cheers,
Bill
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