teamsiems » reunion http://teamsiems.com A team of Siems making observations on the web. Thu, 17 May 2012 20:28:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Clearwater High School 20 Year Class Reunion http://teamsiems.com/2010/07/clearwater-high-school-20-year-class-reunion/ http://teamsiems.com/2010/07/clearwater-high-school-20-year-class-reunion/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:12:36 +0000 Chris http://teamsiems.com/?p=2122 Continue reading →]]>

Diana, Cathy, Joey, Sandra, me, Andy

What was on my mind 20 years ago? I thought about 2010, the movie, and space travel, getting through college, and getting a good job. Now that it is 2010, we don’t live in space or even travel in flying-cars (they’re working on it), but I graduated college, and got a good job. The year 2010 means it’s time for our 20 year class reunion. It’s time to reflect on what we’ve done and how we got here.

The world has change quite a bit in the past 20 years. Perhaps the biggest change is the Internet and how we interact with it. The Internet came into it’s own around 1994-5. We had a 5-year-old Internet when we celebrated our 10 year reunion, but we didn’t have much more than email to communicate to each other. Flash forward 5 or 6 more years and we saw the birth of social media; communicating in near real time over the Internet.

Now we use social media to connect to classmates. We have a Facebook group. It’s not perfect – not everyone in our class uses Facebook, let alone Twitter – but it’s quicker than email. People are people and finding them will always be a challenge – ask the census bureau.

]]> http://teamsiems.com/2010/07/clearwater-high-school-20-year-class-reunion/feed/ 0 High School Reunions Via Social Media http://teamsiems.com/2010/01/high-school-reunions-via-social-media/ http://teamsiems.com/2010/01/high-school-reunions-via-social-media/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:51:48 +0000 Chris http://teamsiems.com/?p=1141 Continue reading →]]> If it wasn’t for the Internet and the explosion of social media I probably would not know about my high school reunion. We started finding each other through email before the last reunion in 2000, but facebook, myspace and twitter make finding and communicating a lot easier and cheaper than some places (ClassMates.com). Although the other sites may have served a purpose in the past, social media sites are king today. They’re free and more and more people are using them for way more than class reunions.

Clearwater High School Class of 1990 (on Facebook)

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We’re getting our 15 seconds of fame! One of our flickr.com pictures will be published on schmap.com, a travel web site.

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