How would you compare a career in social work with elementary school teaching? Given that underlying values overlap so much, how might you decide which would spark more passion, happiness, and success? (Not that any career is perfect.)
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posted by elephantsvanish
on Nov 22, 2012 -
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How do I turn my current (quite positive) experience with community work into (a) anthropological research pre-grad or (b) non-fiction writing? Or, how do you conduct research outside of the academy?
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posted by elephantsvanish
on Dec 21, 2011 -
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Help me name my social entrepreneur ideas network?
I want to create an online idea-exchange for social entrepreneurs. They'd share their problems and help each other find solutions. I'm really struggling to find a good name for the website...
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posted by Political Funny Man
on Aug 4, 2011 -
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What could I study, learn, and eventually do (for a career or otherwise) that would help the most amount of people in the most meaningful way?
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posted by makethemost
on Jun 3, 2011 -
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For a long time now I've been aching to feel part of a larger community. Have you ever felt this way? How did you handle it? Have you ever built or been a part of a tight-knit social circle or community that lasted?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 10, 2011 -
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I'm in the process of developing an online community (for a fairly specific industry/group of people) and was hoping to hear from others about their experiences during the early months/first year of getting an online community to grow.
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 8, 2010 -
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I have an opportunity to produce a kickass community Web site for my town. What cities already have wonderfully interactive, community Web sites I can look at for inspiration, or what do you think a killer town Web site
should have or be like?
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posted by wackybrit
on Aug 4, 2009 -
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Does anyone have any information about best practices & strategies for online community support and community development?
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posted by mere
on May 8, 2009 -
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Looking for community building tool to create a family website. I have family all across the US and would like to create a website where each family member could create their own profile, make posts, share photos. Like a MySpace or Facebook but something more private and to a degree less complex. Something that is just for invited users, something that is easy to use for non-technical users and something that I can host and administer. Open source solutions would be preferred. I have used wordpress, drupal, and joomla but each requires tweaking and modules, and lots of research to setup. Just wondering if there are any prepackages solutions or easier to use modules for WP, drupal, or joomla. Thanks.
posted by mountainfrog
on Jul 15, 2008 -
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Examples of online communities assembled from free social tools?
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posted by bru
on Mar 25, 2008 -
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I have three blogs. What communities will allow me to automatically send new blog entries to the community--say in a journal form?
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posted by misha
on Jul 20, 2007 -
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May I pick your brain for a moment? Yeah, thanks. See, I'm thinking I want to join some clubs or groups or organizations in the Bay area to inspire myself as well as to meet more creative, vibrant, funny, smart, interesting people my age. Tell me, what does the Bay area offer that might really enrich my life here that I might not know about?
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posted by miss lynnster
on Jun 16, 2007 -
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