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Social networks and how they fit into the web strategy
There is a lot of Transition Movement action going on in social networks all over the world. This is great; keep it up (as long as it’s not detracting from your ‘physical world’).
There have been a lot of conversations about how social networks and other third party ‘community service providers’ fit into the web project, ranging from ‘why can’t we have something better than Ning/Google etc.?’ to ‘why bother build anything at all when Ning/Google etc. exists?’, via ‘didn’t you know that Ning/Googleetc. are evil and why are you even mentioning their names?’.
A temptation of every community web project I’ve ever come across is to be everything to everyone; clearly this isn’t possible; the trick is to focus your limited resources on the vital stuff. So this post is about that.
How do social networks fit into the Transition web project?
