{"id":510,"date":"2009-06-07T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/07\/sick-kids-and-social-media-why-face-to-face-meetings-are-important\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:40:06","slug":"sick-kids-and-social-media-why-face-to-face-meetings-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/sick-kids-and-social-media-why-face-to-face-meetings-are-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick kids and social media: why face-to-face meetings are important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonjewishweek.com\/main.asp?SectionID=4&#038;SubSectionID=4&#038;ArticleID=9938&#038;TM=2783.516\">10 yr old son<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legg-Calv%C3%A9-Perthes_syndrome\">Perthes disease<\/a>, a degenerative hip condition.<br \/>\nOver the past year, we have become involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/health.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/leggperthessupportgroup\/\">online support groups<\/a>. This weekend, there was a pool party for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcboe.k12.md.us\/custom_images\/haglocmap.gif\">local families<\/a> that are involved in one of the groups.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIn the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/\">communications business<\/a>, we counsel clients to have an integrated approach that encompasses traditional as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/349528449\">online relationship building<\/a>. Yesterday&#8217;s party was a reminder of the Internet&#8217;s advantages and limitations. As you can imagine, our family has shared quite a bit of information with complete strangers. Over time, we have gotten to know many of the families involved. Again, all participants share a common bond and are passionate about their children.<br \/>\nYou can build a virtual relationship but&#8230; sooner or later it&#8217;s a good thing to make face-to-face contact. You can always transfer the relationship back online once you&#8217;ve met in the real. At work, we do many <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\/business\/\">Skype video conference calls<\/a> but again, it&#8217;s nice to actually meet people. Virtual relationships can complement but not replace real encounters that produce the laughter of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 10 yr old son has Perthes disease, a degenerative hip condition. Over the past year, we have become involved in online support groups. This weekend, there was a pool party for local families that are involved in one of the groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-personal","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}