We Are The Network
What Is We Are The Network?
We Are The Network is a group discussion based program that creates and builds strong, meaningful community bonds and personal connections through facilitated discussions in face to face, web-based and virtual world settings. We Are The Network has proven highly effective with both local and globally distributed groups and teams.
Where Can I Find A List Of Upcoming Public Events?
Click Here for our Upcoming Public Events List
Our Core Principles
- Creation and expansion of engaged communities of people is critical to our society, to our collective future success and happiness
- People crave the ability to connect with each other, to have serious discussions in a safe place, with respectful and supportive people
- Professional facilitation helps people to build connections by providing a safe place to raise, compare and discuss strongly held opinions on important issues
On-going in-person and global online discussion groups, facilitated by Joel Foner, cover a range of topics including current events, social media, virtual worlds, robotics and the application and implications of information technology. Additional topic areas to support specific community objectives added on request.
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Upcoming Public Events
2010-07-27 Does “Instant Access to Everything” Cause Polarization of Opinions?
*** Information on additional public events will be here soon! ***
Past Events
2010-07-20 Virtual World Success and Failure Factors – Past, Present and Future
2010-07-06 Can an Organization have a Personality Disorder?
2010-06-29 Personal Stress Management in a Chaotic World
2010-06-15 The Many Faces of Corporate Announcements – A Case Study
2010-06-01 How to Tell a Powerful Story in Text Chat
2010-05-25 Does Social Media and Virtual World Experience Build Marketable Skills?
2010-05-11 Parallels in Physical and Online Virtual Community Development
2010-05-04 How Should We Deal With Cyber-Bullying?
2010-04-27 What Would it Take to Create a Non-Violent Human Society?
2010-04-13 The Changing Employer-Employee Relationship: What is a Career Today?
2010-04-06 Trends and Ethics in Image Enhancement and Alteration
2010-03-30 Does Global Social Communication Cause Bad Behavior or Reveal It?
2010-03-23 How has our Networked Society Changed Personal and Business Relationships?
2010-03-16 Is it Time for a Disruptive Solution for Modern Education?
2010-03-09 Viral Success Factors for Virtual Business
2010-03-02 An Exploration of Game-Based Education
2010-02-23 News Slam 2!
2010-02-16 Google Buzz Hands-On Workshop
2010-02-09 Are We Engineering the Species that will Replace Us?
2010-02-02 How in the World do you Explain a Virtual World?
2010-01-26 How Would You Measure the Health of a Virtual World?
2010-01-19 How do Social Media and Virtual Worlds Affect Cultural Translation?
2010-01-12 Is “Professional Rewriting” And Blog Plagiarism The New Normal?
2010-01-05 BYOT (Bring Your Own Topic)! Open Forum
2009-12-29 Part 2 – Working Measures of Virtual World and Social Media Engagement
2009-12-22 Forterra and Metaplace Go Boom: What Does This Mean?
2009-12-15 Working Measures Of Virtual World Engagement
2009-12-08 How Will Google’s Personalization, Real-Time and Visual Search Announcements Change the World?
2009-12-01 Social Engineering Goes Massively Multiplayer – Are You The Next Target?
2009-11-24 The Age Of Professional Fake Authenticity
2009-11-17 What If The Omega 13 Was Real?
2009-11-10 Is Google Destined To Become Evil?
2009-11-03 Excuse me, but did you really say that?!
2009-10-27 The Good News Gone Bad Game!
2009-10-20 Economic Recovery… But What Is The New Normal?
2009-10-13 How Is Organizational Culture Like Duct Tape?
2009-10-06 Fair Use vs. Digital Rights Management
2009-09-29 Developmental Stages in Online Communication
2009-09-22 What Is Behind The “Public Civility Problem”?
2009-09-15: Virtual Space Planning for Business and Education Uses
2009-09-08: Welcome to News Slam 1!
2009-09-01: What Are The New 21st Century Skills and How Will We Learn Them?
2009-08-25: Will Augmented Reality Shopping Drive A New Vision For Shopping?