Tag Archives: Online Communities
The Facebook timeline – a teenage diary.
Facebook gives kids the space to learn who they are without the intrusion of unwanted authority. Parents, teachers, coaches and big brothers take note Continue reading
There’s a lot we can learn from town planning
Many towns around the western world started out as Roman garrisons. Primitive stockades gave way to fortified settlements which attracted local residents who set up communities outside the fort’s walls. In time, the communities became protected by the Romans and the distinctions … Continue reading
The new journalists
We’re gearing up for the conference season whether we be journalists, delegates or the majority of us who get the highlights pumped at us through the media. Politics, business and journalism regard October as blanked out and historically those who … Continue reading
The kids are more right
We all move at different speeds; some of us use the web like our front room and share it with others without a second thought. Some of us see the web and the social sites with fear and loathing. I listened … Continue reading
Facilitators and Institutions Defined?
This is an excellent peice by “pragmatist” who blogs at http://www.sdj-pragmatist.blogspot.com ” In essence, I’ve defined “facilitators” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems; and “institutions” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems at their … Continue reading
“How to keep these blogging jonnies in line”
On-line reputations are hard-won and easily lost. We are all prey to hackers who can range from the nuisance (mafia family on twitter) to the violently disruptive (where accounts are taken over as happened to … Continue reading
You can’t please everyone so please yourself
Some people live for themselves, others live selflessly but most of us find our worth in the value others place in them. If you depend on the value others see in you for your sel-worth, your life will be an emotional … Continue reading
Domestic bliss at Christmas
Christmas domestic bliss has been in short supply at the Tapper’s ancestral home. Some member’s of the family remember a happy Christmas Day in 1975 but we seem to have been in permanent warfare ever since. This year, the major issues … Continue reading
Couldn’t have put it better myself
“In a year’s time”, he says, “it will almost certainly look totally different to this”. Continue reading
If you write as good as you talk – no one reads you
None of us currently have the answers and if we don’t have these conversations I suspect we never will! Continue reading →
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