{"id":97,"date":"2009-05-05T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flirtingwithfaith\/2009\/05\/connecting-online.html"},"modified":"2009-05-05T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T12:08:40","slug":"connecting-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2009\/05\/connecting-online.html","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Online&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I blog here at Beliefnet.com and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversantlife.com\/joanball\">ConversantLife.com<\/a>. On Twitter I&#8217;m @joanpball and I am one of several Joan Balls from New York on <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/blognetworks\/blog\/flirting_with_faith\/\">Facebook.<\/a>\u00a0I keep up with past students and professional business contacts on LinkedIn and have my eyes on Ning and Squidoo, although I haven&#8217;t made the time to create profiles there yet. Simon and Schuster has begun to build a page on their site for my book and there is a rough cut of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversantlife.com\/joanball\">book trailer<\/a> up on YouTube. I read more than a dozen blogs regularly and comment with some frequency on about half of them. I&#8217;ve never been interested in MySpace, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/larramamusica\">Martin&#8217;s music<\/a>\u00a0(I play bass on some of his tracks are up there.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As my exploration of the world of social networking continues &#8211; both for teaching and book purposes &#8211; I find that these tools have allowed me to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones. Unlike many people who lament the lack of face-to-face contact, I&#8217;ve had more than one lovely lunch\/dinner\/coffee as a result of experimenting with these tools.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That said, I can understand the potential dangers of conducting relationships separated by screens and machines.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What about you? Do you find your online presence has enhanced relationships or isolated you in front of the screen?\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blog here at Beliefnet.com and at ConversantLife.com. On Twitter I&#8217;m @joanpball and I am one of several Joan Balls from New York on Facebook.\u00a0I keep up with past students and professional business contacts on LinkedIn and have my eyes on Ning and Squidoo, although I haven&#8217;t made the time to create profiles there yet.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Connecting Online... - Flirting with Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2009\/05\/connecting-online.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Connecting Online... - Flirting with Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I blog here at Beliefnet.com and at ConversantLife.com. 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