[OPE] URPE Blog and Facebook group

If you go to the blog, you'll see an article by David L on "The Onset of

Great Depression II".

 

btw, if anyone on the list is on 'Facebook' and isn't already a Facebook

friend, please put in a friend request for me.

 

In solidarity, Jerry

 

 

 

Hi URPErs,

As I announced here in late 11/2008, URPE has a blog and Facebook
group. I'd like to elaborate here a bit on the rationale for using
these resources.

For those not familiar with it, Facebook is a popular social
networking online application. It's commercial (provided by a private
company with ad-based revenues), but not terribly obnoxious. It makes
it easier for people to keep track, and communicate with, others.
Facebook provides its users with tools that allow to control how much
of themselves they wish to expose to others. As those of us who use
it notice, it is fairly efficient and complements regular e-mail very
nicely while providing a much fuller sense of communication. In a
phrase, it makes horizontal cooperation among URPE members easier.
And that's the whole point, since URPE's goals can best be
accomplished through broader cooperation among its members.

Most young people I know are already Facebook users. Less young
people seem to have more reservations. It's not my intention to
advocate for Facebook here. So, I'd just like to let everyone know
that, if she/he is already on Facebook or is inclined to join it,
check out and join URPE's group. If you join the group, please feel
*entirely free* to -- at your convenience -- add content and use the
tools available to communicate, share information, etc. The more
active the group becomes, the more useful will become to us all.

To join Facebook, go to www.facebook.com and once you have a profile,
plug "URPE" on the search box and you'll be able to join the group
with a click.

The idea of the blog (http://urpe.wordpress.com) is to provide another
chanel for URPE members to communicate their ideas to other URPE
members and to the rest of the world. Any URPE member can become a
blogger, help administer the blog, etc. If you already blog and would
like to have your personal blog linked on URPE's blog, you can plug
the link yourself or, if you prefer, you can e-mail it to me, and I'll
do it for you. You may also post on your personal blog and on URPE's
blog at once. Aside from the restriction that the person plugging
content in the blog be a URPE member, the only other requirement is
that the content plugged be reasonably consistent (something that we
should interpret broadly and generously) with URPE's general goals:

http://www.urpe.org/about/abouthome.html

It's clear that at the moment the blog's functionality, look and feel,
etc. are rather basic, if not primitive. Please do not let that keep
you from using it to its max. If the blog takes off and we need to
make it better, we'll cross that bridge as we get to it. For now,
please blog your soul away!

If you need help to set up your blog account or to post your thoughts
on the blog, please contact me directly and I'll be glad to assist
you:

juliohuato@gmail.com

These are exciting times for the left, and we need to have a sense of
urgency in presenting our ideas to the rest of the world.

Comradely,

Julio Huato
Brooklyn, NY



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