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Student Groups on Facebook via Amy Sample Ward

50 Million Missing http://www.flickr.com/groups/50_million_missing/

Flickr Group/Account Photos form Americans For uNFPA http://www.flickr.com/photos/americansforunfpa/

I Love Roe Versus Wade http://www.flickr.com/groups/iheartroevwade/

Take Back the Tech Flickr Group http://www.flickr.com/groups/takebackthetech/

I'm Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Roe VS Wade http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6155094129

Organizers Choice USA http://www.choiceusa.org

Has a blog http://65.181.173.94/index.php?option=com_jd-wp&Itemid=80 Blog Team is [|here]. [|MySpace Page]

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health [|http://www.latinainstitute .org]

NARAL Pro-Choice America [|http://www.ProChoiceAmeric a.org]

Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom - Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice http://www.syrf.org

Co-Sponsors Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program http://clpp.hampshire.edu

Planned Parenthood Federation of America [|http://www.plannedparentho od.org]

Blog Example I Am Emily X http://www.iamemilyx.blogspot.com/

The Sex Workers Project http://digiactive.org/2008/01/15/digitally-active-org-the-sex-workers-project/

Facebook Examples

Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights T&T [|Melissa Josanne Gabriel] (Creator) http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2377945201 Advocating for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people in Trinidad and Tobago. Supporting initiatives of young people, and aiding the Empowerment of young men and women, through meaningful youth participation at the policy-making level.

Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in the South Caucasus (RHIYC) http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8141075738 Web site: http://www.4uth.ge/

The EC/UNFPA Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in South Caucasus is a large-scale, multi partner initiative aimed towards improving the sexual and reproductive health of the most vulnerable young populations in three Caucasus countries: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in South Caucasus programme aims at making sustainable improvement in the sexual and reproductive health (S&RH) and rights of youth. The main target group is youth ages 15 and 24, including the most vulnerable youth. Using best practices from around the world, the RHIYC is designed to meet the S&RH needs and rights of youth, reaching at least 50 percent of the regions’ 2,850,000 youth. The main activities of the programme are:

• Informing, educating and communicating with youth about their Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights; • Improving availability of and access to quality youth friendly S&RH services; • Strengthening inter-country collaboration and networking on youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights.

Students for Reproductive Rights http://ku.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200741593 We are an affiliate of Choice USA and Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom! Megan Dodge
 * || sfrrku@gmail.com ||
 * Website: || [|http://studentsforreproduc tiverights.wordpress.com/] ||

Via Nancy Shoemaker via FB alert http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddzhjjgr_41fmk9jr Since last fall, the American Association of University Women (advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research) has been slowly growing its presence on Facebook.

The group of participants includes two or three staff members and a mix of volunteers of all ages from all parts of the country.

The group established a hidden "AAUW Facebook Strategy" group to discuss how to grow the effort. It produced a document "Facebook for AAUW 101" [|http://docs.google.com/Doc ?id=ddzhjjgr_41fmk9jr] and is working on a "Facebook 102" document.

We, as a "legacy women's group" are struggling with an aging, somewhat tech adverse, membership. In general we see Facebook as a place where our future membership is already participating, and a rich environment that has served as the first viable platform to support volunteer-to-volunteer communication. [Yes, there are mailing lists of various sorts, and even http://discuss.aauw.org, but those have not served to create real connections. http://wiki.bbvx.org was established to further volunteer-volunteer communication, but there's been next-to-zero participation. ] We've spent a good deal of the Facebook effort putting our issues in front of other groups by joining groups that are aligned with our goals, and then posting about how AAUW is working on solutions. [See, e.g., [|http://apps.facebook.com/c hanges/changes/view/466.]] But a large value may have come from just enabling volunteers from across the country to connect with each other and share information.

Have we raised much money? No. Have we increased political participation? The staff may track hits from Facebook to the AAUW Capwiz account, but I haven't heard any results. Have we tackled the issue of AAUW being essentially invisible? Perhaps. We are tracking some basic stats at [|http://spreadsheets.google .com/pub?key=pWfhLPnN5CWZS tFqs8aKiBA] but those do measure activity, not outcomes.

But we're expanding the core of our membership who understand the principles of systems like Facebook and connecting them to the (small) group of Facebook natives who are also AAUW aware. Our groups for the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (www.nccwsl.org) are taking hold, and may allow those attendees to stay connected to the organization after the event. We're able to republish AAUW rss feeds here in Facebook and may get a bit more visibility for those items.

It's a journey.