World Streets Social Networking ABCs

In our world-wide outreach to readers we are trying to put to work the full range of available contact and sharing tools to best serve and to make best use of these carefully developed networks. Among them a certain number of Facebook Groups which seem to lend themselves pretty well to these purposes, and also LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Scribd, Picasa (public photo galleries) and Twitter (still something of which we are hard pressed to see the fit, but one perseveres).

World Streets Facebook Sites

The idea in each case is to provide a 21st century “salon” for the Facebook community to meet, take up and exchange information and ideas of in each case a specific set of issues and concerns  which we regard as important.  These are definitely not “chat+ sites; we think of them as respectful peer groups discussions. The lists are lightly moderated to ensure that the discussions and announcements stay on focus.

– – – > Editorials (1565 readers on 30/12/2012)
– – – > World Streets Online (571)
– – – > Journal of World Transport Policy & Practice (45)
– – – > World Transport Archives (New, 30)

The Editor’s page is the most widely read (1836 readers) and most eclectic and hectic. From time to time it picks up postings that appear on other focus sites (below), because the editor wishes to call broader attention to them.  But for the most part, we try to organise this so that each of the twenty or so focus groups stick closely to topic.  These include:

Focus Groups

– – – > Nuova Moblita (Italy) (545)
– – – > The Equity Vector (270)
– – – > xCars: New ways of owning and using cars (152)
– – – > Car Free Cafe (52)
– – – > Gender, Equity, Transport (43)
– – – > New Mobility Kids Network
– – – > Safe Streets Challenge
– – – > Streets of India (311)
– – – > Value Capture/Land taxes
– – – > World City Bike Forum
– – – > The Worst Practices Department (169)
– – – > xCar Futures (Includes carsharing and other new use/ownership patterns)

Less active for now:

– – – > Accès Universel

– – – > Nova Mobilidade (145)
– – – > Streets of Iran
– – – > Calles de Guadalajara
– – – > Thinking about Africa
– – – > Thinking about China
– – – > Thinking about Russia
– – – > World Telemobility Forum

LinkedIn –

• http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=171018&trk=hb_tab_pro_top

Twitter

• Twitter/World Streets – http://twitter.com/#!/worldstreets

Reading Room (SCRIBD)

• http://fr.scribd.com/collections/2948834/World-Streets-Reading-Room

YouTube video collections: [section to follow]

Picasa photo galleries

• Streets of the world – http://tinyurl.com/ws-slides
• Streets of India – http://tinyurl.com/is-streets
• The Streets of Iran – https://picasaweb.google.com/fekbritton/TheStreetsOfIran#slideshow/5602776711397555218

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