{"id":21520,"date":"2003-07-31T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2003\/07\/just-getting-into-this-new-method-of.html"},"modified":"2003-07-31T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T14:51:00","slug":"just-getting-into-this-new-method-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=21520","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Just getting into this new method of social networking using the internet (digital) to meet like minded people and then meet in more conventional ways (analog).<\/p>\n<p>I recently joined ecademy who send me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecademy.com\/node.php?id=9554\">monthly newsletter<\/a> which contained an article on social networking I then went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackbeltjones.com\/work\/mt\/archives\/000472.html\">here<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0114726\/categories\/socialNetworks\/\">clicking through Ross Mayfield&#8217;s blog<\/a> ion this took me to this fascinating site and concept called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/\">meetup<\/a>, this allows you to join special interest groups in your city. The fascinating thing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.meetup.com\/853\">london blogging  group<\/a> is that the meeting place is decided by the attendees by voting. a very clever use of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Really think that this is the next big thing, maybe even the next political party!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just getting into this new method of social networking using the internet (digital) to meet like minded people and then meet in more conventional ways (analog). I recently joined ecademy who send me a monthly newsletter which contained an article on social networking I then went here clicking through Ross Mayfield&#8217;s blog ion this took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}