AISVIENNA.COM

As you might have noticed, the old AISVIENNA.COM wasn't exactly the hottest site on the internet! The forums on this site will remain, but this site will hopefully also serve as an informative weblog.

Where are all the alumni?

You might have heard of Facebook, the internet's number two social networking site after MySpace. Facebook has exploded over the last couple months as more and more college and work networks were added to it, and finally, last month, it was opened to anybody with an email address.

As of today, October 24, 2006, there are 279 AIS alumni in the Global AIS Vienna Group from the Class of 1979 to the not-yet-graduated Class of 2007. Most of these members check Facebook at least once a week, if not several times a day!

AISVIENNA.COM can simply not compete with this global phenomenon, and will thus take a different course in the future.

I encourage you to sign up for Facebook and participate in the alumni discussion there! Here are the steps:

1) Register. This should only take a minute. If you currently have access to a college or work email address that is supported, this is the optimum choice. Otherwise register by region.

2) State your AIS Vienna affiliation! Join the Global AIS Vienna Group. Then edit your profile's education information to include AIS Vienna and your class year. You can then go back to your profile, find your education information and search either the entire school's alumni base (click the school name), or just search your graduating class (click your graduation year).

3) See who's going to be in Vienna this winter (if that's relevant to you). Check out the Vienna Winter Break 2006/2007 event and follow the instructions.

Facebook has small, non-obstructive ads, and excellent privacy settings, so it's great to use.