Some time back Aarthi created a wave with her mail after long time. It made to trigger many replies and people seemed to be interested to stay connected. I set up a Google doc to update contact details of out classmates and people did it.
I always wanted a better way to stay connected than these sort of mailing lists.
- It was hard for anybody to maintain a list of mail ids.
- Most of us get annoyed with growing number of 'Reply to all'.
- More than mails, we need something more..
So, I have started a google group. With that,
- Nobody has to remember the mail ids of all. The only mail id to be noted is jprece2006@googlegroups.com
- People can choose to have daily digests (Which will give gist of a days activities as mail) or Web-view (No email. they can view threads by directly visiting groups site.)
- We can have profile with fotos, discussions and share files. We can create some pages and publish
I can see still there are so many people missing from this. SO many of us are not active participants. But, they are watching silently AFAIK. Nothing wrong in that :)
Also, I dont expect everyone to change and suddenly become very interactive with this. My goals are simple.
- jprece2006@googlegroups.com will act as a single mail id to be remembered always no matter how many switches our friends make between companies.
- One fine Sunday afternoon after heavy lunch, just going thro the this group might make nostalgic
Let's how it turns out to be...
