Carolina Alumni Review - March/April 2007

Family Poets

Camp Cheerio with all the Tar Heels
Oh, Oh, what most appeals?
Is it the giant slide,
which speeds you into the lakeside?
Is it the horses that we all ride,
with Miss Carol at our side?
Is it the awesome fun in the gym,
where we say “I remember him!”?
Is it the climbing wall, oh so tough,
keep climbing even when it is rough?
Camp Blue Heaven is great, great fun,
whether it is at night watching stars
or in the day in the sun!

—The Love family

We came to Family Camp.
We found it somewhat damp.
We stayed up past eleven,
here at Camp Blue Heaven.
There’s nothing that is finer
than a camp from Carolina.

We forgot our aquarium, so we brought Morehead Planetarium. Too cloudy to see a Star Heel, but thank God I’m still a Tar Heel.

—Thorp family and friends

See more Family Camp photos online at alumni.unc.edu/familycamp.

Tar Heels Are Talking on GAA Web Site

One year ago, a new destination for all

Carolina-minded individuals was born, one they could get to without ever leaving home. The GAA created

TarNation, a social networking community, on its Web site for alumni and friends of UNC. So far, more than

40,000 alumni have registered for the community. In February, the GAA gave ^them ^yet ^another ^reason ^to ^do ^{so, with}the launch of online discussion groups. alumni.unc.edu

Discussion groups are similar to the by the numbers site’s existing message boards, in which alumni have exchanged ideas for several years. But unlike the message boards, the discussion groups allow alumni to initiate and create discussion topics of their own — so alumni who lived in the same residence hall, who want to plan for their upcoming reunion or who want to share their thoughts on this year’s basketball team or where to find the best barbecue can begin a discussion on that topic.

Also, unlike the older message boards, the new discussion group process offers additional privacy, permitting individuals to participate by signing into the GAA’s online community, with a user ID and password chosen by each participant.

The GAA first launched alumni.unc.edu in 1995, and the site now has more than 3,000 pages of content and is viewed by 38,000 or more visitors each month. Some content is available to anyone; other content is reserved for GAA members only.

Content that is open to the public or registered users of the Web site includes:

• The latest GAA and University news;

• Programming information, such as Carolina Club events, reunions, travel programs and Carolina College for Lifelong Learning classes;

• The ability for alumni to update their alumni record and submit class notes.

Content that is available only to GAA members includes:

• The online alumni directory, which *_as _of _{Feb. 20, 2007}has records of more than 500,000 alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of

UNC, both living and deceased;

• More than 1,000 online class notes, many of which include photographs;

Carolina Clubs
with active Web pages
116*

Individuals who have registered
in the online community
41,187*

Online directory records
(Alumni, faculty, staff, students and
friends of UNC, living and deceased)
529,072*

Individuals with e-mail addresses
in the online directory
156,802*

Average monthly visitors
in January 2005
18,000

Average monthly visitors
in January 2007
38,000

TOP 10 PAGES
VISITED IN 2006

TarNation/Online Directory
Clubs
E-mail forwarding
Online Services
Homecoming/Rampage
Message Boards
Student Membership
Programs & Events
Join Online
Job Listings