{"id":113,"date":"2012-04-10T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/i-dont-like-closed-gardens"},"modified":"2017-07-14T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:29:42","slug":"i-dont-like-closed-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2012\/04\/i-dont-like-closed-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t like &#8220;Closed Gardens&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like &#8220;closed gardens&#8221; like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a> to create online communities for volunteers, clients or members. Not only for <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.techsoup.org\/cs\/community\/f\/26\/t\/35400.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">all of the reasons I note here on TechSoup<\/a>, but also because a lot of people do NOT like mixing their social lives with their volunteering lives.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/04\/10\/150361223\/should-teachers-be-disciplined-for-online-lives\" target=\"_blank\">this story today on NPR&#8217;s Talk of the Nation<\/a>, that noted a teacher was fired for a photo on her Facebook page that showed her drinking wine while she was on vacation. That&#8217;s enough to make anyone paranoid about using their Facebook page for their work or volunteering.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if I am required to join a Facebook group as a part of my volunteering, that means other volunteers and the organization&#8217;s employees are going to know I&#8217;m on Facebook, and want to become my friend &#8211; and be hurt if I say no.<\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.techsoup.org\/cs\/community\/f\/26\/t\/35400.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">why I don&#8217;t like &#8220;closed gardens&#8221; as online communities for volunteers, clients or members<\/a>. Weigh in there on your own thoughts! (if you try to comment here on this particular blog, I&#8217;m going to NOT publish your comment and ask that you over to TechSoup and reply)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like &#8220;closed gardens&#8221; like Facebook to create online communities for volunteers, clients or members. Not only for all of the reasons I note here on TechSoup, but also because a lot of people do NOT like mixing their social lives with their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[89,99,100,173,176,195,334,374,650,455,532],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","category-tech-tools","tag-clients","tag-communities","tag-community","tag-employees","tag-engagement","tag-facebook","tag-online","tag-privacy","tag-social-media","tag-staff","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}