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Dear Everybody, Posting for the first time, before anything else, let me thank for Cynthia for her work in running this board and all of you for the postings...
Dear Cynthia, This is Peter Amaczi, a Hungarian living in Tokyo. I signed up to webcommunities@yahoogroups.com a couple of weeks ago and tried to contact you...
Dear Web Communities members, I am in Argentina right now and rather slow in approving postings to the group as I have to go to an internet cafe to do so. All...
Social networking is mostly silly All of the rabid interest in social networking, and the use of the internet to do so, got me thinking about the real value...
Cheers Cynthia and all members. I am try to identify a few more qualified participants for my interview series called: The Future Of Web Conferencing And...
I'm teaching a network class next week and know that networking on the Internet is certainly different from doing it in person. However, your message to the...
I love the Onion. They have a yearbook where they publish everything on paper. It's hysterically funny and perfect fodder for a long plane trip. -- Cynthia ...
I suggest a different perspective. If I am reading Granovetter’s principle of strong ties/weak ties correctly, a recommendation is not what social networking...
Dutch, You make a very good point. Granovetter's "strength of weak ties" does seem to emphasize that the knowledge gained is what is of value (e.g. there is a...
Good points but I was speaking more of the effort of being a "hub", which Granovetter feels are key to social networking. While being a hub is a natural...
it's 1998 all over again! ... This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SF Gate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: ...
Hi everybody, this is the official announcement of Blogtalk 2.0. The European Conference on Weblogs. The conference is designed to initiate a dialog between...
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DFD3.htm WHAT ICAN CAN'T DO - by Martyn Perks sp!ked-IT The BBC's new website will not build community or rescue...
Cynthia, there is not only webcommunity stuff in this one, I wrote the whole thing up as I do feel its relevant, not sure though how many people are interested...
I hope I don't get killed for this. I also do think goggle is the best search engine, and I love the toolbar too. My point is more like not what they are in...
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Although I am a big fan of social software in general, I've come to the conclusion that the existing sites/tools (at least the ones I signed up for earlier...
... Cynthia, I recently joined this list, and I've seen your postings and few others. I was sorta waiting to see what developed before chiming in, but your...
Hi Cynthia, Your disappointment about social software sounds familiar. Please don't give up on your community sites, though. Some of my experiences/opinions: ...
... I'm glad you wrote that; I've been passively resisting a few folks who have written me repeatedly to join network A or B or C (or all three). I'm not sure...
Cynthia, There are more than a few of who share your reluctance to keep signing up for these. I blogged on this topic recently, and Stowe Boyd's article in...
There have been some great comments in both egroups where I posted my original comment about how the existing social networks are just creating work for me...
I signed up for this hope to meet some of you there. Cynthia (this signature is in HTML format) uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu C y n t h i a T...