Changes

In this modern age, it's not simply appropriate, but necessary that The Augustan Society, Inc., engage the public, our members, and various workgroups [[Study Groups]] with social media of a type appropriate to the purpose.  

There is an Augustan Society LinkedIn page, but it . It is not presently under the control of the Societydormant, and serves primarily to reserve that name-space. Work No activity is in progress to claim the pageexpected until a moderator is named.

This under the direction of the [[Assistant Secretary]], is a private forum intended for use by members of the [[Board]] and [[Consuls]] to discuss Society business, and perhaps conduct some preliminary conversations about items to come before the Board. It is presently inactive for lack Only 2/3 of participationthe [[Directors]] are presently members, and fewer participate.

This under the direction of the [[Editor-in-Chief]] and the [[Photo Identification Study Group]] leader. It's a private forum for use by volunteers working on the digitization several projects: * [[Back Issue Digitizing]] — PDF files of back issues (by conforming are posted, along with RTF files from with the output of OCR software to . Volunteers convert the PDF latter into OCR files)more nearly suitable for publication. It is also used by the * [[Photo ID Collection Study Group to post photographs ]] — Scans of photos from the Society's collection in hopes members will visit are posted here to solicit identification of the people and places depicted. Because of storage limits and help identify the persons showntendency of these groups to involve different volunteers, this may be split into two or more groups in future.

This under the direction of the [[Arms Chancellor]], it's a private group for the members of the [[Arms Registration Committee]] and [[Consuls]] to exchange files and maintain a database of petitions and registrations. It is presently inactive, as is the Committee.

The [[Main Website]], operating under EasyNetSites, includes a public forum feature. It was presently disabled at the order of the [[President]] as it did not have the ability to require a moderator's preview of posts. It could be reactivated by order of the President or [[Board]] if a moderator should come forth.

A Twitter account has been proposed for the Society, but it has not yet been implemented for lack of a moderator and a source of frequent data to post. It is not expected that this will be activated until and unless the Facebook page gets a moderator and decent support, at which point diverting some of that data flow to Twitter will become relatively trivial.