Proposal #56: Don't facebook Friends.
I propose to scrap all efforts of making CISV Friends a social networking website and focus on developing it into an administration tool.
Rationale:
In the light of the rapid development of social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn, Xing, etc, there is no chance a non-profit organization as CISV can be successful in establishing a competition: CISVers today look for each other on Facebook in order to establish old lost CISV connections and use the multitude of interaction tools to stay in contact. Even though CISV got the idea right, the Friends website will hardly able to remain attractive for its members to revisit the site over and over again.
So, I suggest CISV friends keeps a few core functionalities, such as an individual "all-camp-address-list", but otherwise is redesigned in order to work as an administration tool for IO, NA- and chapter officials. There is still some huge potential.
Respectfully submitted, Nick (GER)
7 Comments:
The reason why no one goes to friends is because, it simply doen't work and it's not user friendly, friends was already there before everyone was on facebook, and still no one used it.
Some one more computer skilled them me should do somethig about friends.
Because if you make friends (and please do resources to) accesible and easy to use (for exemple JB pedia) everyone will stat to use it.
If we have the tools in CISV let's improve them and USE THEM, because other wise they will be just dead weight, and we don't want that. right??
Love
Manuel (banana) Pereira
Portugal
Agree with the proposal.
Its money and time wasted, none of which we are in superavit of.
Facebook is the place to find olde friends, wether CISV or not.
It is amazing how much CISV realted stuff is out there. Trying to compete is absurd and neither efficient nor useful for the pusposes of or organization.
Money and time are needed somewhere else.
The friends website is a steaming pile of poo... compared to other networking sites. There is no functionality and it is the best example of a non-user friendly website and resources there can be. I am an admin for several of my activities and it sucks. As an admin I have limited power of what I can actually do to improve the activity site and adding people is retarded. Friends doesn't need to be a new CISV only facebook. But it sure as hell could withstand to mimic some of facebook's (or orkut, or hi5... well maybe not hi5)better things. I understand that the friends website was a fraduation project from some CISV'er and I believe that it is an excellent first attempt at something great (much like the PDPEF... mor on that later...). BUT it could withstand some re-tooling. Social network site and administrative functionality do not necessarily cancel each other out.
For no reason a all, I forgot to put my name under this proposal. Sorry.
I totally agree with the proposal. although i've been registered in CISV Friends for a couple of years, i never found a use for it and hardly visited it. It is not user-friendly and improving it would not make CISVers stop using facebook and moving somewhere else. However, i can see friends becoming a useful tool in the CISV international or CISV resources websites, as an activity database, or some sort of "massive address list". Other than that i dont see the need of keeping it, as hardly anyone uses this website regularly...
Cheers
Zé - Portugal
Hm. I think the proposal makes sense. It is really impossible to (on that speed) compete with the always-changing internet sources for people to use. It feels like Metallica against Napster kind of attempt.
More than that, I think this relates to another difficulty CISV has. I'm pretty sure if you ask random CISVers (internationally as much as locally), many would say that not only friends - but CISV itself is a Social Network.
I have seen many times people arguing that CISV should stay small, so that all of the ones inside can enjoy it. I've seen (many) NAs and chapter Presidents picking programmes that fit exactly their kids' age. Really.
And this to say that I agree with the proposal. We should focus on becoming more professional. And on that sense, CISV Friends Pre-Registration is quite a great tool. Imagine if all forms were to be made online within the same administrative website? Not bad.
So yeah - friends - love to you all.
[ps - nick! thanks for the little note. I will give myself a CISV Devils mug as a birthday gift. It will be my first bought-CISV-thing since... many years.)
i absolutely agree
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