Internet Studies Group List

It was required that we join the group known as Internet Studies at Yahoo Groups.Upon joining up we duly became NetStudyNetizens.A moderator was chosen by a tutor and people drifted in and looked around.Messages were posted,at that stage along the line of "What's next?"

A poll was initiated and most members at that early stage participated.The indications were that everyone was enjoying the course,to different degrees.A database was set up containing the members contact details.

A member added a link to Oasis Log in,and this was very handy when you wanted to go to there.You can set the sort order of the messages so that you don't have to trawl through everything to find the post you want to see.

The Applications List contains Blog Central,a listing of members email addresses and the links to our blogs.This was a particularly practical addition.I like to read the other student blogs and having this in one place makes it easy.Not everyone has added their link yet,but it's early days.

There is a facility to promote the List by placing little links on your web page,and I will attempt to add one of these to my blog.You can "message" the whole group or you can choose to send a private email to a fellow member.

I have my Yahoo email account set up to receive all messages to the group and in this way it is easy to see what is relevant or urgent and as long as you check your mail regularly you don't miss anything.

The List came into it's own when we were setting up contacts with each other to do the Chat tasks of the course.At a glance you could tell who was going to be on what chat program and at what times.Also,chat ID numbers were displayed.It was all very easy to follow.

At the time of this posting we have 29 members.There are links on the Yahoo Groups page to thousands of other lists and you could probably spend years of your life sifting through them and I doubt that you would ever get to the end of it all.For the moment I'll just stick around at our little group.

Another facility of the list is that you can add a photo album.This has an incredibly generous capacity of 100 gigs.I indulged myself here and posted 3 photos.This gave me an added satisfaction of being in the group.

I imagine that these lists have great scope and potential uses.If,for instance you were planning a wedding,(God forbid) this would be a perfect way of keeping everyone informed.A school excursion,a surprise party.The scope is endless.You can even imagine a list being utilised in a bank heist.

So our little List lives on,and I can only imagine it getting stronger as we come back to it as tasks arise.A good group effort