{"id":419,"date":"2007-03-22T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/is-social-networking-just-online-communities\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:18:22","slug":"is-social-networking-just-online-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/is-social-networking-just-online-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Is social networking just online communities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmarketingassociation.org\/\">Web Marketing Association<\/a> are always looking for new industry categories to add to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/?gad=CPuPmvMBEggsoBxCrziTDBi6nML_AyCf6OAS\">WebAward competition<\/a> for Web site development.<\/p>\n<p>We have received a number of requests to add social networking as a new category.  These days you can&#8217;t open a magazine or newsletter without hearing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/\">MySpace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> or a hundred other Websites where people come together to meet.<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: Isn&#8217;t social networking simply the latest buzz word to describe online communities?  Online communities have been a category in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/?gad=CPuPmvMBEggsoBxCrziTDBi6nML_AyCf6OAS\">WebAwards<\/a> since 1998, the year after the WebAwards was started.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone explain to why one is different from another or is this just a new coat of paint on a old car?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at the Web Marketing Association are always looking for new industry categories to add to our WebAward competition for Web site development. We have received a number of requests to add social networking as a new category. These days you can&#8217;t open a magazine or newsletter without hearing about MySpace, LinkedIn or a hundred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webaward"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}