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iStanford.edu - What does Stanford's Social Networking Platform Look Like?

Proposed by Joseph Kautz

Where will the conversation continue?
On Facebook of course! :)
Notes

Answers from the group:
The GSB uses the Web 2.0 platform developed by Stanford Alumni Association, as does Development, and is looking into the suggestion to invite others like Stanford staff, faculty and students to join the platform.
Alumni.stanford.edu currently has 150K people, referred to as Web 2.0, maintained by postgrads and has been in existence for 2 years. Includes a directory, personal profiles, discussion boards, book salon, stanford magazine site where they can comment on articles, etc. This is a PRIVATE network and the alums trust each other and the GSB students who make up it's membership.
The SAA will sometime next year be able to integrate with Facebook groups and leverage Facebook login.
The Law School has a social network SLS Connect for it's students: http://www.law.stanford.edu/slsconnect/
Suggestion to follow CourseWork project based on Sakai - currently being rolled out at NYU
http://www.nyu.edu/its/connect/w11/atlas.html
BIG QUESTION: are there other Stanford created social networks that exist that are not listed above?
JK: Interest in talking to a CourseWork developer about how to build a site to prepare for a couple of years out.
CourseWork developer responds" "we really don't know what the tech world is going to look like in 2 years, and an Agile approach seems to be a better fit." It was noted that the funding process for an Agile software team takes a long time to get through the system and is problematic.
Questions regarding the Google+ movement on campus - where is it at?
iStanford app brought up as a communication/social networking lite device - Brent mentioned that soon you will be able to log on as alumni, student, staff and then profile specific information will be presented.