EARLY DRAFT -- I just started thinking about this, in earnest. This bulletin amounts to a "brain-storming" burst. Many other bulletins also function this way. And, the information is being released early, in the rough, in case others might find it useful now -- or may wish to contribute useful inputs. I detoured to do this, but must return to the Civic Mentor Development Priority List -- which is going to make further work on this and much else, far more efficient to develop into their proper final forms. Please be patient. However, if public response indicates that this should be given a higher priority, I'll try my best to comply.
1. Purpose
1.1 To accumulate, over time, all in one convenient place, links to all of the social networking services that are being used to unite the people and friends of the City of Pittsburg, CA -- enabling them to more conveniently discover, work out, and build upon their common interests toward their individual and collective well-being and betterment. THE INTERNET CHANGES EVERYTHING -- it is truly REVOLUTIONARY -- making the previously impossible, completely feasible and immensely desirable.
As relevant links are discovered or created, I hope to add them here (or in even better "homes" in the pipeline) for the stated purpose. Like all Civic Mentor initiatives, these accumulator-bulletins serve: (1) to place practical things in easy reach and keep them there, without undue delay; (2) to provide conceptual place-holders to help simplify my construction, testing, and refinement of more-permanent, systematic solutions to the solvable problems I perceive to be plaguing human progress.
The following links will be added to, until there's nothing left to be done (I hope and intend). I will indicate significant changes to this accumulator by placing version numbers up in the title, so you can quickly tell whether things are different since your last visit.1.2 CITIZENS OF THE LARGER WORLD -- please note: The Civic Mentor vision is GLOBAL in scope and thrust. The patterns used to develop free products and services for my own home base -- are meant to be working models -- which can and will be adapted and transferred to suit every single community that desires it -- first, throughout the nation -- then, the world. As the Mentor/ELMS Corporation becomes operational (c. 2016), pursuit of these goals can be accelerated.
2. Social Networks, in General
2.1 Here are some interesting, relevant links and discussions concerning the Social Networking Concept, in general:
Social Network [Google search]
Social Network [A Wikipedia article about the theoretical concept as used in the social and behavioral sciences]
Social Networking Services [Google search]2.2 A USEFUL GENERAL EXPLANATION
Social Networking Service [Wikipedia discussion excerpt] "A social networking service (also called SNS) is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
- A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his or her social links, and a variety of additional services.
- Social networks are web-based services that allow individuals to create a public profile, to create a list of users with whom to share connections, and view and cross the connections within the system.[
- Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging.
- Social network sites are varied and they incorporate new information and communication tools such as mobile connectivity, photo/video/sharing and blogging.
- Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered.
- Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, interests with people in their network.
3. First Batch of Sites to be examined for signs of Pittsburg Activity
3.1 In this preliminary phase -- over the coming months -- I envision developing accumulators that account for the Pittsburg presence, if any, on these sites -- not necessarily in this order: (So far, my focus is on Facebook -- in this version of this bulletin)
- Google+
- YouTube
- Vine
- Tumblr
- Twitter widely used worldwide
3.2 Next phase, we'll look at the rest of the world in some sensible order.
3.3 This Wikipedia "List of Social Networking Websites" should aid our efforts to be thorough
4. Specific Pittsburg-Related Social Networking Services
FACEBOOK ACCUMULATOR
USEFUL SELECTED LINKS TO HELP FIND PITTSBURG SNS's (I'll get back to this at first opportunity)
Pittsburg, CA on Facebook [Facebook search page]
Social Networks in Pittsburg, CA [Google search]
Pittsburg, CA on Facebook [Google search]
THOSE WHO WISH TO PROMOTE THEIR SOCIAL NETWORKING PAGES HERE (Facebook or otherwise),
MAY DO SO IN THE COMMENT SECTION, BELOW.
These can then be formally rolled-onto the link-lists.
In other words, the more help I get, the better the results.
5. Serendipitous Discoveries
Pleasant surprises which may or may not fit the exact case, but seem exceedingly interesting subjects for further investigation will be accumulated here, for now -- here's this morning's first such find:
MEETUP: Find your people --www.meetup.com/ "Meetup helps groups of people, with shared interests, to plan events and facilitates off-line group meetings in various localities around the world."
David Nelson
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