{"id":382,"date":"2005-11-07T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/07\/the-continuing-power-of-online-comunities\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:39:21","slug":"the-continuing-power-of-online-comunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/the-continuing-power-of-online-comunities\/","title":{"rendered":"The (continuing) power of online comunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had the need to seek advice from a couple of the more popular online communities. I dropped by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickbooksgroup.com\/\">QuickBooks community<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickbooksgroup.com\/webx\/forums\/simplestart\/123\/5\">ask a question<\/a> about using QuickBooks template features. A forum moderator stepped up and saved the time and dime of calling tech support.<br \/>\nI then hopped over to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtondc.craigslist.org\/\">Craigs List<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.washingtondc.craigslist.org\/?forumID=39&#038;all=N\">find out<\/a> if anyone knew where we could plan a Birthday Party at a local movie theatre.<br \/>\nKey was response time in both instances. The info delivered was right on-target and the people were friendly. Both exchanges worked without a hitch- if I can only remember passwords now! No Spam either!<br \/>\nThese exchanges both left a smile on my face and took me back to earlier days of online communities. For the first time, I also thought about upgrading Quicken!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had the need to seek advice from a couple of the more popular online communities. I dropped by the QuickBooks community to ask a question about using QuickBooks template features. A forum moderator stepped up and saved the time and dime of calling tech support. I then hopped over to Craigs List to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community","7":"category-community-building-management","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}