{"id":2170,"date":"2007-06-29T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2007-06-29T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T17:06:10","slug":"oclc-nextspace-virtual-roundtable-q5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/oclc-nextspace-virtual-roundtable-q5\/","title":{"rendered":"OCLC NextSpace virtual roundtable &#8211; Q5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth part of a virtual roundtable for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/nextspace\/default.htm\">OCLC NextSpace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you see [online] social networking as a serious, long-term cultural and business phenomenon? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My brother, who was working in a prison ministry,told me: &#8220;The guys when they get out they have no networks that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s hard for them to find jobs or a place to stay or even a place to just have fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is part of what prison is about breaking down the social network that got the guys in trouble in the first place. What&#8217;s missing, as my brother noticed, is a replacement network. Without a network and associated social support we become steppenwolves, single that will not survive.<\/p>\n<p>We are in a time not on no tribes but of multiple tribes, not of a single family but of multiple families, not in a time of a single social network but of multiple networks &#8212; each of the highly and loosely connected social structures more easy to manage in terms of time shifting, commitment, and in selection.<\/p>\n<p>How to make the support of these networks sustainable and flexible is the challenge be it in the form of a business, a government or a group of volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth part of a virtual roundtable for OCLC NextSpace: Do you see [online] social networking as a serious, long-term cultural and business phenomenon? My brother, who was working in a prison ministry,told me: &#8220;The guys when they get out they have no networks that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s hard for them to find jobs or a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}