The Facebook groups as well as listserves and other group lists need to grasp the nature of individuals interests and provide the means to explicitly or implicitly start to understand and use these as filter options over time. One area of social tools where I see this value beginning to surface in through tagging for individuals to start to state (personally I see this as a private or closed declaration that only the person tagging see with the option of sharing with the person being tagged, or at least have this capability) the reasons for interest. Personal InfoCloud « Social Tools for Mergers and Acquisitions | Main | Getting Info into the Field with Extension » Explaining the Granular Social Network This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point.

Gave you a set of predefined personality tags. You name tag/badge has your big picture from your profile, so can connect online and offline. When people add a forum post, now we ask them to tag. People already interact on listservs and email. Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 13 2008 Notes from the Seattle Online Community Meetup Published by Nancy White at 4:45 pm under events , online interaction , technology stewardship These are notes from the

Essentially, the question is whether blogs build or tear apart other online communities (listservs, online forums, etc.). He takes my thoughts and expands on them nicely. June 5, 2007 2:34 PM Leave a comment Name Email Address