LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

I work for a youth development non-profit and we have begun to use Facebook and Myspace to reach out to the graduates of our programs (over 200 programs and thousands of grads in the US). We had tried previously to build our own "graduate portal" but soon realized everyone was already on either Facebook or MySpace and that we didn't need to build something that already existed. It's been a bit of a learning curve, but we have an active Alumni network on those sites now.

Hi I'm Jen Langley and I live in Cambridge, MA. I'm in my last year at Simmons College in Boston, getting my MLS. I've worked at a non-profit for the past 7 years as their web manager.