Thanks for setting this up RJ. I think this will work just fine as a forum in case of emergency or evacuation.

Hi everyone

I was told there was some sort of discussion at today's (Wed. 6/25) 20-40 meeting about having a message board where we could communicate in the event that there was an evacuation and people were not able to communicate another way. I thought of this site because all it requires is an invite to the blog and for you to log in with your email to join the group. 

Unfortunately, even though I created my account and this page with my ucsc email, it seems this site wants you to use a gmail account to join a group when you've been invited. However, if you just follow the prompts, it doesn't seem to matter what e-mail you have. 

Invited myself at my ucsc email address and  apparently created a google account with that... Facebook has a similar kind of message board thing if you create a group, so that might be something to check out. I'm sure there are other sites with similar features. I just thought I'd make this real quick as a demo and let anyone who's interested check it out.

-RJ