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)