Additionally, Cindy Gallop (Somerville, 1977), Saman Majd (Christ Church, 1974) and Amanda Pullinger (Brasenose, 1984) were elected to the Board of Directors.

In the meantime, please check out our upcoming events, including a book discussion and signing with Oxford Alum Tina Brown at: http://www.oxalumny.org/upcoming_events.php

Instructions are as follows:

1. Go the the Concept2 website - www.concept2.com and create your own logbook. Under your profile, ask to join the Oxford Alumni Association virtual rowing club.

2. Email Guy Spier, and tell him that you want to join.

Use the club as a motivational tool for your rowing/ergometer scores. We will email you with challenges and other opportunities to stay motivated.

Participation in the club is open to friends of the Oxford Alumni Association of New York, as well as to graduates not living in the New York metropolitan area.

Participation in the club will be a key part of our selection process for the next Oxford - Cambridge alumni boatrace.

The following are some of the business and social networking opportunites that we are working on for you:

1. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business networking website set up by Reid Hoffman, an Oxford graduate. On the site, the Oxford Alumni Association has its own group - which allows our members to learn about and to contact each other online.

As an exception especially for Oxford Alumni this service is provided to us for free. (Because we are a high quality group of the sort that LinkedIn wants to attract.)

To sign up for LinkedIn, click on the following link:
https://www.linkedin.com/register

2. Tribe.net

Tribe.net is a social networking website which enables its members to read about each other's interests, participate in online conversations, and post opportunities for other members ranging from real estate to jobs to things for sale.

At Tribe.net, we have created a persona for the Secretary of the club which you can see here:

http://people.tribe.net/secretary-oaany?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Person%5Ba0067ba0-02d5-48a3-8b64-600389b1bf0d%5D&r=10352

We have also created a tribe called Oxford Alumni Association of New York. Click on this link to see it:
http://oaany.tribe.net/?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B29196645-54c8-401f-bbd3-dcb0218d9025%5D&r=10352

If you like the tribe community, please also link up with the secretary, and join the Oxford Alumni tribe.

3. Flickr.com

Flickr is a service that allows its members to share pictures.

Our Oxford Alumni Association pool allows our members to easily post pictures that are relevant to our members, and to evan have those pictures appear on our website.

Joining Flickr is free. Once you are a member, you can join the Oxford Alumni Association pool and post your own Oxford photographs for our members.

To go to flickr, click here:
www.flickr.com

To see the OAANY pool, click here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/oxalumny/pool/

You should know two important things about these efforts:

Firstly, all of the services we describe below are opt-in only. In other words, you have to actively join in order to participate. Otherwise, the services described do not know that you exist, thus respecting your privacy.

Secondly, the services are all free to our members.

These efforts are the result of my desire to build our New York Oxford community by providing as many opportunities as possible for us to learn about each other and to interact with each other.

I hope that these services are helpful to you and that you will use them. If you have any feedback, questions of other comments, please feel free to email me at: president@oxalumny.org

or to leave a comment on this blog.

Sincerely,

Guy Spier
President, OAANY

She is now a Senior Advisor to the G7 Group and is based in Seoul.

Full details below:

Her bio is below.

Jeremy Lack co-founded the Oxford Alumni Association in 1994 along with Michael Borkan and Alejandro Baez-Sacasa.

He now works as a lawyer in Geneva.

See below for his bio and email.

We discussed past events - including Spamalot, the Demonstration tennis, and the Book Club.

We also discussed the Boatrace and other upcoming events.

We discussed the responses to the President's "Future of Oxford Email.

Lastly, we discussed soliciting nominations for new officers.

Its all below.

Enjoy!

The OAANY's goals are:

(a)	To support Oxford University in this area, to enhance its profile and to promote its interests.
(b)	To facilitate contact among Oxford alumni and friends by organizing a wide variety of events and promoting our common interests.

]]> http://www.oxalumny.org/about/archives/2004/10/about_us.html http://www.oxalumny.org/about/archives/2004/10/about_us.html About Us Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:08:05 -0500 Minutes of Executive Committee meeting, June 14, 2004