Sunday, April 19, 2009

Excavations at Heinlenville (San Jose)

Got a chance to stop by an on-going dig at Heinlenville (the third?) San Jose Chinatown, that also fostered the growth of Japantown. This is the second year of work on the site, which was preserved by the City turning the site into the main vehicle garage etc and paving over all the cool stuff, saving it for work in the last two years. This was a destination at SIA2008, though the 2008 dig completed a few weeks before we came to see it. COOL!

Pix and links to follow...

Friday, April 3, 2009

SIA eNews and Social Networking

We're about four months into the experiment with eNews for the SIA, and have gotten a good response.  Signup off the SIA home page.

In response to member suggestions, I've gone ahead and set up SIA groups on facebook and linkedin. These are experimental, but it's free, so what the heck.

I'm even tweeting as jaym3

Dunno the long term future of these efforts, but I hope that they enable us to reach out to new members and friends.

jay