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. ==[[Forum]]== The Forum is a feature of our [[Main Website]], and is under the direction of the Forum Moderator. As that office is presently vacant, the Forum has been disabled.
==[[Facebook]]==
This under the direction of the [[Facebook Moderator]], is a public site used primarily to attract attention to the Society (and to block others from using our name there).
==[[LinkedIn]]==
==LinkedIn== 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 volunteer moderator is named.
==[[AugustanBoard YahooGroup]]==
This under the direction of the [[Assistant Secretary]], is was a private forum intended for use by members of the [[Board]] , [[Headquarters Staff]], and the [[ConsulsChairman|Chairmen]] of major committees to discuss Society business, and perhaps conduct some preliminary conversations about items to come before the Board. It is presently inactive for lack was under the moderation of participationthe [[Webmaster]]. This group was deactivated by order of the [[President]], with only the Webmaster retaining membership. It may be quickly reactivated at need.
==[[AugustanConvert YahooGroup]]==
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 of back issues (by conforming RTF files from the OCR software to the PDF files). It is also used by the Photo ID Study Group to post photographs from the Society's collection in hopes members will visit and help identify the persons shown.several projects:
==<ul><li>[[AugustanHeraldry YahooGroupBack Issue Digitizing Study Group]]==— PDF files of back issues are posted, along with RTF files with the output of OCR software. Volunteers convert the latter into OCR (or DOC) files more nearly suitable for publication.</li>
This under the direction of the <li>[[Arms ChancellorPhoto Collection Study Group]], it— Scans of photos from the Society's a private group for the members collection are posted here to solicit identification of the [[Arms Registration Committee]] people and [[Consuls]] to exchange files and maintain a database of petitions and registrations. It is presently inactiveplaces depicted.</li></ul>
Because of storage limits and the tendency of these groups to involve different volunteers, this may be split into two or more groups in future. ==[[ENS ForumAugustanHeraldry YahooGroup]]== This under the direction of the [[Arms Chancellor]], is a private group for the members of the [[Heraldry Committee]] and [[Headquarters Staff]] to exchange files and maintain a database of petitions and registrations.
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.
==Twitter==
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.
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