Tag Archives: communication
A short glance back & a long gaze forward
Happy New Year To You! Yes, 2008 is over and another odd year has arrived. In other more exciting news, we’ve just completed our first year of blogging @ Things Worth Talking About. Despite a lot of hectic schedules and tight projects, we managed to publish 153 posts over the last 12 months. Averaging 3 posts per week, bushmanbill, myself and several guest bloggers wrote the bulk of the posts. We also improved the design of our blog, have added some valuable auxiliary content, and have integrated other social media …
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How do social networks build community?
I’ve thought about this quite a bit lately. I’ve actually come to wonder if they do help build community at all. I seem to experience less community now than I did before I had a Myspace, Facebook, or Virb membership. I think part of this is because of the isolation that telecommunications seems to foster. Talk is cheap, we can talk with anyone we want to any time we want. Since supply is so high, we value people’s words and opinions very little. Community, real community that matters, that has …
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