Of course there is a real world out there, beyond relationships built solely online. But when you’re engaged in a virtual community with individuals around the world, in most cases, the Web world and the real one rarely intersect.
This Saturday the local radio and webcast technology show, WebTalkGuys Radio, will explore “Building Communities Online” with San Francisco Web designer and community consultant Derek Powazek. Powazek will explore the interactive features and future of Web-based communities and lessons learned from his book “Design for Community” (www.designforcommunity.com).
Hosts Rob and Dana Greenlee will also cover some of the Internet’s hottest topics, such as why political campaigns are ignoring the Net, the cyborg university professor, and “The Next Big Net Thing.”
Show topics range as wide as the World Wide Web, featuring Internet leaders, cyberculture, Web entertainment, Net issues, Web site and software reviews and listener comments.
The radio show is hosted by Tacoma tech business leader Rob Greenlee, marketing director of Personal Design Concepts and Dana Greenlee of LoudVox Productions, which also produces the show.
WebTalkGuys can be heard locally on KLAY 1180 AM Saturdays at 11 a.m. It is also broadcast on the radio in San Francisco/San Jose, Boston and over the XM Satellite Radio Network Channel 130.
It is Webcast on the Internet on demand from www.webtalkguys.com and via the wireless Web on NexTel cell phones. It streams live on Saturdays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. over www.cnetradio.com.