The wonderful Artist Izabella Pierce sent me an email yesterday, in response to my shout-out on our upcoming festivals, and invited me to join the community Creative Souls, a Ning based network. Izabella told me about the ongoing discussion about 1001 Journals, and several of the Creative Souls launching journals. I set-up a member page and chimed in.
On Ning, which allows members to start social networks, is another community I belong to: Film Community. It was interesting to see this grow from a few hundred members when I joined to over 2,200, and counting. One of its most active participants is Stuart Balcomb, our composer.
Our page on MySpace, the most populous network worldwide, turned out to be the starting point for many inspiring conversations, and festival invitations. It's fascinating that people do find each other in this vast space of possibilities. Yesterday's new friends include author Samara O'shea, whose new book "Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits" will come out in July, and historian Howard Zinn. Facebook has served up so many old friends and colleagues, and I'm happy that our 1000 Journals Facebook group is growing and active.
We're up on about 25 networking sites, and I spend a few hours every day, usually very early in the morning before the daily grind begins, answering messages, adding to ongoing discussions, approving comments, accepting friends requests, and inviting friends. Sometimes I think consolidation would save a lot of time, but then I really like the microcosms, small networks like Creative Souls...
ohhh so many groups & networks....ohhh not enough time in a day!! I need to get up to about 100 words per minute on typing & that would cut the time on the computer in half! ;)
xo!!
Posted by: Izabella | April 11, 2008 at 11:03 AM