Virtual Community

One Family's Prayerful Struggle With Critically Ill Little Girl Goes Viral

Posted 02.08.2012

By Gabrielle Birkner The Jewish Daily Forward When Seth and Hindy Poupko Galena asked readers of their Eye on Ayelet blog to say the Asher Yatzar ...

The Church Should Embrace Social Media, For Dialogue's Sake

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 12.12.2011

Sister Mary Ann Walsh

Social media has a place in the 21st century church, though some oldsters may have to be drawn into it, collars, veils, rosaries and lapel crosses askew.

Getting Real With Virtuality

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy | Posted 07.31.2011

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy

As people increasingly choose virtual games over real playing fields, the electronic innards of computers everywhere are gradually blurring the lines between reality and virtuality.

Community banks capitalize on social media

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011

Brett King

Community banks and credit unions have been around since the mid 1800s. Unlike most commercial banks which exist as publicly listed companies, credit ...

The View From Western Colorado

Adele Israel | Posted 05.25.2011

Adele Israel

People here are community-minded, but vote for politicians favoring independence from the awful beast of big government. Registered Democrats are a distinct minority.

Because "Classified Ad Killer" Doesn't Have the Same Ring

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Leslie Harris

A great many of the tragic incidents that tangentially involve the Internet have little or nothing to do with the Internet itself. The Craigslist case is the latest example of that phenomenon.