[Squaredancing] Experiments in Social Networking

[Dave]

I had thought about doing that in the Tidewater, VA area.  Let me know how
it works out.  I also started a website aimed at providing information for
people interested in dancing.  It's far from complete, but what I have so
far has been used by a couple groups that were having beginner dances.  You
can check it out at http://fun.greatdances.net/.  I put ads for their dances
on many internet based community event listing sites and included the
website for more information.  Right now it specifically mentions a "Blast"
class that was in June, but I will change it after Labor Day to be more
generic, or to list whatever is coming soon. 


Dave Hinde


-----Original Message-----
From: squaredancing-bounces at rbnsn.com
[mailto:squaredancing-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of Ken Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:34 PM
To: squaredancing at rbnsn.com
Subject: [Squaredancing] Experiments in Social Networking

With all the Social Networking sites on the Internet, I've decide to try to
use one to generate interest in Square Dancing for both current dancers and
people who want to learn.

I've created a Meetup group named  "The Northern NJ Square Dancing Meetup
Group". <http://squaredance.meetup.com/5/>

  I am going to try to use the group to announce both dances and lessons.
Hopefully, I can get it to grow to a large enough group.

I also found two Square Dancing related groups on Facebook.com. One is for
young people who like to dance and the other seems to be for everyone, but
most members seem to be young (high school and college age)

I think that Square Dancing will benefit if start using these social
networking sites to generate interest in our activity. And since most of the
people who use these sites are young, this gives us an almost perfect way to
get them into the activity.

Ken


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