Here at the Next Mile Project we are just starting to build and create our social media presence. At the same time, we are also trying to figure out how to explain what we want to post to others, like our media lab interns, so they can help us interact and share on social media...

Do you post social-media updates when your audience has the highest chance of seeing them, or just whenever you think of it or happen to have a free minute? If you aren't posting to a social media site when most of your audience members are on it, all that time you spent crafting the update goes to waste.

Five nonprofit groups got word on Wednesday that Google will help them fulfill visions of using the technology titan's Internet-linked Glass eyewear to do good. "Giving through Glass" program winners were selected from 1,300 proposals from US charities with ideas of how to use the eyewear to achieve their goals.

This brief article by Arnie Samlan supports the approach outlined in the article shared by Abby below. People are looking for relationships. I don't believe that this means that social networks are not, therefore, useful. Quite the opposite, it means that we need to think carefully about how we use them in tandem with critical offerings on a one-to-one basis.

I have heard community described as concentric circles. The innermost is filled with those who are actively involved.
Each successive ring represents a lesser degree of involvement. In a synagogue, for example, can a person who only comes once a year to High Holiday services still be considered a community member? Is membership defined by self-identification or some quantitative measure of involvement?

Some research seems to suggest that in spite of the increase in social interaction through media like Facebook and Twitter, teens and young adults are having more difficulty relating to others.