I continue to think about the privacy settings on this blog. Are all of you comfortable with the blog's public nature? I hesitate to make it "private" unless you are all ready, willing and able to "join" or be added as "readers". If we decide that is what we want, we'll all have to start over requesting, inviting, granting, etc. (I'm not exactly sure what this entails at your end). I don't mind doing it, but don't want to impose it on everyone if no one cares one way or the other.
If the blog is private, will we be visible to the EAPers we haven't "found" yet --those who are simply doing a web search for one of us or with the key words UC EAP, Bordeaux, 1968-69, etc.? There are still about 40 people we haven't been able to locate and hopefully the blog will provide a way for them to find us.
Another possibility would be to create a second "private" blog--or rather, make this blog private and create a second, public, blog with nothing on it except the group photo, our names, key words and contact information, to lead new EAPers to this blog with all the good stuff on it.
I've done a bit of searching on the Blogger site and forums to see what might be done. If anyone else has any ideas--or wants to create a "real" website, please share/do!
Updated search list coming out soon.
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You might have the public site show the picture and a little blurb about the blog, then invite people to register if they want to see the blog. That's the way most web sites of this nature seem to be run. At least that way you know that the material is being read by people who have chosen to identify themselves as being part of the group, so that there is an avenue of investigation if someone turns out to be causing problems. I wouldn't make it any more complicated than that. And perhaps add a way for people to send private messages to others on the blog if they wish to share information, eg contact info, that they might not want to be public.
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