Add Social media listings data element

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This discussion about social media is making me think about the best way 
to include this info in our resource database.  Is there any discussion 
about adding another official data element for a link to social media like 
Twitter or Facebook? Some organizations in our database (especially 
neighborhood improvement groups) are now using Facebook as their primary 
web presence.

Tim H.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by clivemjo...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2010 at 4:42

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Thsi probably means allowing for the additional of a variety of different 
online 
address alternatives (e.g. Twitter URL, Facebook page, blogspot, etc.)

Original comment by clivemjo...@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2010 at 10:58

• Changed title: Add Social media listings data element

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Could this just be allowing more than one "web address" with a "description" 
field?

Original comment by gglbwmn2...@gmail.com on 7 May 2010 at 2:41

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Yes ... that might be an easier way of doing that ...in fact, I am not sure 
whether 
a description field would be needed as the nature of the web addresses would 
make it 
self evident ... w.g. twitter.com/, facebook.com/, etc.

Maybe the current XML already allows for multiple web addresses and the issue 
is 
moot?

Original comment by clivemjo...@gmail.com on 7 May 2010 at 4:17

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This should be made explicit in the schema. And the schema should be expanded 
to allow adding an unlimited number of links to social networks (as the 
inevitably will come and go). The elements should be available at any level 
(Agency, Site, Service, ServiceSite) and should not be forced into a URI format 
as some of them are not (e.g. Twitter handle). If the "Website" or "URL" 
element in the schema does not currently have a Definition or Name attribute, 
it should be added and the documentation updated to indicate the field into 
which the indication of which social media network it points to (Facebook, 
Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, etc).

Original comment by bleeb...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2011 at 6:56

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Votes were for making this change, and in version 3.1.

Original comment by e...@ejahn.net on 17 Feb 2012 at 11:12

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Neil, currently there is a "Note" element for URLs.  Does this satisfy the 
description requirement you mentioned for urls?  I'll add a separate social 
media type, that is is not necessarily a url. 

Original comment by e...@ejahn.net on 17 Feb 2012 at 11:19

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Original comment by e...@ejahn.net on 18 Feb 2012 at 1:38

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per 3/22/2012 workgroup discussion, decided to rename Note to Description for 
consistency and change from SocialMedia to more generic InternetResource with 
urls only.  A handle would have to then be part of the url.

Original comment by e...@ejahn.net on 22 Mar 2012 at 7:31

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also made it a top level type and part of Agency, Site, SiteService

Original comment by e...@ejahn.net on 22 Mar 2012 at 7:36