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  1. Just got an email from someone who identified her great great grandfather in this photo http://bit.ly/5H9mCT
  2. Getting ready to present on the Y's thrift campaign as part of our "Virtue & Vice in the Stacks" First Fridays series http://bit.ly/5sPdgB
  3. Google Wave has made it to the YMCA Archives. Looking forward to experimenting with this new communication tool.
  4. Starting to plan for General Assembly next year in Salt Lake City. Hope to get word out to more Y folks about partnering w/the Archives.
  5. Working on a v. brief history of YMCA work in Argentina to go w/the inventory of those records. One of ~70 countries the US Y worked in.
  6. @rochfamily Welcome to the Twitterverse!
  7. Making preparations to attend a conference on famous YMCA leaders in Tianjin, China next month.
  8. See also the links to lists of archives using other web 2.0 apps. We're on the list for social networks. Lots of interesting ideas here!
  9. Check out this interesting list of archives using Twitter: http://bit.ly/xfCu5 (hopefully they'll respond to our request to add us soon).
  10. Making lots of great connections w/Y folks at the Y-USA All Staff Mtg in Chicago. Exciting new initiatives. As always the Y keeps evolving.
  11. We are getting ready to travel to Chicago to attend the Y-USA Annual Staff Meeting next week. Any of you tweeps going to be there?
  12. http://twitpic.com/c5q0o - One of about 100 glass slides with hymns, probably used in WWI YMCA huts
  13. Also found: http://twitpic.com/c5q0o Probably projected for soldiers so they could sing along without hymnals. Primative Powerpoint.
  14. http://twitpic.com/c5mys - This is just a small sample of the cache.
  15. Unearthed a box containing some nifty WWI and WWII-era pins and patches. http://twitpic.com/c5mys
  16. @YMCA_Boston Wish I could make every American watch the movie Food Inc. Thanks for the interesting article.
  17. @DCF_YMCA I have been campaigning for my office to supply me with a treadmill that I can use while I work on my laptop, but so far not luck.
  18. Swimming lessons at a YMCA camp circa 1910 http://bit.ly/a5v7A
  19. Now you can give (money) to the YMCA Archives online. Gifts go to our preservation and outreach efforts. http://bit.ly/DYPGp
  20. Today's mail featured a beautiful book, published photo diary of an American Y secretary who went to work for the Vladivostok Y in 1919-20.