Re: Job/social networking tools

["Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>]

Mike McCallister wrote:
...
> The other thing I like about Ryze is that there are a bunch of "local"
> networks that organize face-to-face gatherings. I don't remember
> whether they hook you up automatically when you join, or whether you
> have to search for it.


Thanks, Mike--

That IS informative.  For the local face-to-face gatherings of 
common-interest folks, I found Meetup.com to be useful, though their 
membership model has changed that somewhat.  We had a bloggers Meetup in 
the greater Silicon Valley that blossomed nicely and eventually 
abandoned the Meetup infrastructure for its own:

   http://www.sfbaybloggers.com/

that uses other communication channels (southbay bloggers have a Yahoo! 
group).

Besides Meetup, there's also Upcoming.com (now a Yahoo! company).  The 
chief value of entities like Meetup and Upcoming is the DISCOVERY and 
BIRTHING of the groups.

For those interested in virtual groups as a whole, see Danah Boyd's
http://www.danah.org/ and http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

--Guy K. Haas
  OverAssociated Software Exegete in Silicon Valley



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