iDIDJ Australia Didgeridoo Cultural Hub

Decided to join facebook this weekend and was surpised by the sheer amount of didjers on there - both groups and individuals. The largest group 'didgeridoo' had 2,222 friends associated. Some groups were found under Yidaki, Yirdaki, Mago etc. Some were downright weird, and some were modest versions of our great mother site!

So, I made a large pot of tea, sat down in earnest, weeded out the bigger, better groups, joined them; then posted recommendations for those interested in the 'trad' side of things to come check out iDIDJ's YouTube channel, forum & web. Haven't pissed anyone off yet so far, so with a bit of luck we may get some new blood as a result. One thing that concerned me with some sites was regurgitation of the usual trail of urban myth - one site had even lifted Guan's video of Larry Gurruwiwi (I tagged the clip with the comment that acknowledgement of the copyright owner/source in the caption would at least be the polite thing to do, and to come look at iDIDJ YouTube for lots more quality stuff!).

I found facebook a fun experience, and within a short space of time a whole ton of old friends and colleagues were linking up and chatting away - the sheer connective power of this social networking site totally surprised me - and left me wondering if iDIDJ should have a facebook/myspace etc presence just to act as a gateway for the hub itself. Poor old Guan has enough to do I know, so maybe some of us could help. One pitfall would be in using the hub's key email address - this could easily be swamped (I got 40 messages within a space of 8 hours with just 14 friends). Anyways, it was just a thought on cranking-up the PR side of things. Meanwhile, if any of you are facebookers etc may I suggest a
'stealth' PR campaign of comments pointing to iDIDJ??

p.s. the curious 'bookers' can find me under 'David Finch' or use finchdj@btinternet.com

Hi Dave,

Thanks for this, greatly appreciated - really. I am on Facebook but don't really bother with it, I keep getting friend requests but haven't done anything because if I went onto Facebook and were serious about it, it would be another job and a half to do it right. But I do realise now that Facebook is important, I will make an effort at some stage later down the track.

Cheers!

Guan

It would indeed be another big job Guan! Anyway of fixing so someone else can run the facebook site while u run the hub? You'd need another email account for sure, but info could easily be cut n' pasted between the two to ensure 'corporate continuity'. Main pain in the arse is setting up all the friends and responding to requests as you say. Have a good think though - if you need help in any of this (or any other admin matter) just shout as always - remember I'm now a fat retired bastard!

This can indeed be another way of reaching out to even more people, didge enthusiast around the globe. I looked up IDIDJ a couple of times in the past, thinking that Guan should be out there but could not find anything. Nevertheless, it is an awful lot of work to have an active facebook account as once you have ''friends'', they start sending lots of rubbish around which can be pretty nerveracking.

I joined ididj and facebook on almost the same day. Still finding my way around both. Both impress me.

I just added ididj and youtube/ididj links on my website links page