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PIONEERING OVER FIVE EPOCHS

A. MY TYPE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

1. Everything I do with other people online is part of my particular type of

social networking. My social networking is associated with three basic

activities: (a) the creation of a personal webpage that serves as a home base, a

central hub, for my writing, for teaching and consolidation, for service and

social activism, as well as for feedback from others---should they wish; (b) the

creation of a detailed personal profile(see Appendix 1 below) which I post at

over 8000 internet sites which readers at these sites can access, again, if they

wish; and finally (c) posting my writing at these 8000+ sites, and interacting

with others about my posts and theirs. In the process I promote my website, and

my writing, at these 8000+ internet sites.

2. In the last decade, 2002 to 2012, I have created an extensive audience or

readership. I address myself to a circle, a crowd or single individuals. I try to

make of my interactions more than the typical ones found at sites like Facebook

and twitter. The interactions or connections at such popular social networking

sites often reduce friendship to a feeling or an image, a sense of connection to

faraway or nearby friends about everyday things based, for the most part, on

very short, pithy posts. Such connections involve posts that often contain little

about ones true difficulties in life. A world of privacy and an image is created.

There is nothing wrong with that, with this type of site and networking style, butit is not my style, not my approach, not my MO, modus operandi, to use a who-

dun-it term.

3. I post a great deal about what I think in the form of prose and poetry,

generally more extended pieces of writing than the posts found in the Facebook

and twitter world. My posts are far beyond the one-liners, the jokes, what I did

today, what I ate for dinner, I poke you, I like this and I dont like that, the here

are some photos of this and here are some pictures of that, here is a video of

this and here is a piece of music, etc.

B. MY WEBSITE

1. My website has been on the internet for the last 16 years: 1997-2012. It is

part of a tapestry, or perhaps a jig-saw puzzle is a more accurate word, for all

my poetry and prose both at my website and elsewhere in cyberspace at those

8000+ sites mentioned above. I have dozens of links at my site, some linked to

my writing at other internet sites, and some linked to resources created by

others. I have created a large thread of words across the internet since leaving

the world of jobs in the late 1990s and taking a sea-change at the age of 55.

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2. My cyberspace creation is made by a now self-employed individual: a retired

teacher and lecturer, tutor and adult educator, taxi-driver and ice-cream

salesman. I am now a poet and publisher, writer and author, editor and scholar,

researcher and blogger, scribbler and sampler within the immense commentariat

and blogosphere that is the world-wide-web.

3. I am now 67 and I attempt to endow various themes and a wide range of

subjects in the arts and sciences with many layers of meaning. In these last 16

years on the world-wide-web I have evoked a complex range of responses in

readers who come upon my work, responses which range from lavish

enthusiasm to utter indifference and quite intense criticism. The solitary work of

literary creation requires a type of talent, some earned ability or unearned gift of

grace which is almost never collaborative. Social networking may expose

readers to this or that book, this or that video or piece of music, this or thatrestaurant, food dish or pleasurable activity, this or that idea or cause.

3.1 The solitude I require to create an essay, a poem or a book requires my

ability to draw on the globally interrelated, interdependent and interlocked

system of the WWW to market my wares. Until my work is ready to be placed

in cyberspace the activity is intensely private, although I often draw on the work

of other writers in composing my own literary creations. The marketing of my

work is also private, and then the feedback comes in or it does not as the case

may be. Not everything I write in cyberspace is commented on by others.

B.1 MY WEBSITE AND OTHER INTERNET SITES

I will continue to use my website as the central hub for my literary work, for my

internet teaching and learning activity, for my now several million words and

many books on the internet in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. My writing is

found in the form of: essays and blogs, poems and articles, ebooks and message

boards, threads and special topic sites, indeed a myriad types of discussions. I

do not engage, though, in any sort of aggressive proselytising or heated

exchange at those 8000 websites that are part of this personal and industriousexercise. When what I write produces vehemence and invective, heated

criticism at some site, I simply leave if I am unable to cool the emotional

climate at the site. Sometimes I am banned before this occurs for a variety of

reasons.

C. MY WRITING STYLE AND MY VALUES

1.I have tried over the last several decades of my life, looking back as far as my

own junior youth in the 1950s, to develop a writing style which, while fusingtogether material from many academic disciplines, from my own life as well as

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from my value, belief and attitude base, aims to be both provocative and

intellectually stimulating on the one hand and light and entertaining on the

other. In writing, as in daily life though, one wins sometimes and one loses at

other times; ones writing appeals to some and not to others. Ones value, belief

and attitude base is simply, or not-so-simply, another word for ones religion.Faith, to put this another way, is a set of assumptions around which one places

ones emotions and then proceeds to act and argue ones case before the court of

life.

2.I possess an obvious enthusiasm for my evolving values, beliefs and attitudes

as well as the several causes I promote or I would not have been associated with

them in their overt form---for nearly 60 years; nor would I be promoting my

ideas in a multitude of forms, subtle and not-so-subtle, on the internet as I do

and have done since retiring from FT work in 1999, PT in 2003 and mostcasual-volunteer work in 2005.

D. MY READERSHIP

1.I now have several million readers on the internet. It is difficult to guesstimate

readership precisely in cyberspace when there are now nearly 300 million sites

and over 2 billion users, and when one writes at as many sites as I do. Many of

the sites at which I post my writing and interact with others keep me informed

about how many people click-on to what I have written.

2.I am engaged in varying degrees of frequency and intensity, in parts of this

tapestry, this jig-saw puzzle, this literary product, this creation, this immense

pile of words with hundreds of people with whom I correspond on occasion as a

result. I keep most of this correspondence as infrequent as possible or I would

drown in this new form of letter writing: the email and the internet post.

E. THE WWW AND PUBLISHING

1.This amazing technical facility, the world wide web, has made this literarysuccess, this form of publishing, possible. This teaching and learning exercise,

this form of service and often social activism, among the many other functions

of my writing in the now wide and extensive dialogue I now have with diverse

publics is an enriching one. If my writing had been left in the hands of the

traditional hard and soft-cover publishers, where it had been without success for

the most part from 1981 to 2001, these publishing results with my now

extensive readership would never have been achieved.

2.It is my hope that what I write as a result of this self-employment, this literaryvocation and avocation, this pleasurable occupation of my leisure time,

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resonates with both the novitiate and the veteran on the one hand and the great

diversity of people who are on a multitude of paths in their journey through life.

F. NOTE

When accessing what I write in cyberspace you can Google:Ron Price, but be

aware that there are more than 2000 other Ron Prices now on the web. Some of

them are men of fame and others of notoriety. You can also google: Pioneering

Over Five Epoch orRon Price forums orRon Price followed by..many other

words and phrases literally several 1000 possibilities to access what I have

written. My website, to reiterate, is found at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/

My email address is: ronprice9@gmail.com is you want to write to me.APPENDIX 1:

EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2012

2010-2012-Retired and on a pension in George Town,

Tasmania

1999-2009-Writer & Author, Poet & Publisher, Editor &

Researcher. Retired Teacher & Lecturer, Tutor & Adult

Educator, Taxi-Driver & Ice-Cream Salesman, George Town

Tasmania Australia

2002-2005-Program Presenter City Park Radio Launceston

1999-2004-Tutor &/or President George Town School for

Seniors Inc

1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies & Human Services

West Australian Department of Training

1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies & Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in

South Hedland WA

1982-1985 -Adult Educator Open College of Tafe Katherine

NT

1981 -Maintenance Scheduler Renison Bell Zeehan Tasmania

1980-Unemployed due to illness and recovery

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1979-Editor External Studies Unit Tasmanian CAE; Youth

Worker Resource Centre Association; Lecturer in

Organizational Behaviour Tasmanian CAE; Radio Journalist

ABC---all in Launceston Tasmania

1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat

CAE Ballarat, Victoria

1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical

College, Box Hill Victoria

1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE

Launceston, Tasmania

1972-1973 -High School Teacher South Australian Education

Department

1971-Primary School Teacher Whyalla South Australia

1969-1971 Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County

Board of Education Picton Ontario Canada

1969-Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co Ltd Toronto Ontario

1967-68 -Community Teacher Department of Indian Affairs &

Northern Development Frobisher Bay NWT Canada

1959-67 -Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 10 to

end of university

1949-1967 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and

2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni-1963-1966, Windsor

Teachers College-1966/7

1944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63)

in and around Hamilton Ontario

1943 to 1944-Conception in October 1943 to birth in July

1944 in Hamilton Ontario

2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2012

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I have been married twice for a total of 45 years. My second

wife is a Tasmanian, aged 65. Weve had one child: age 34. I

have two step-children: ages: 46 and 41, three step-

grandchildren, ages 18, 15 and 1, as well as one grandchild

aged 3 months. All of the above applies in December 2011.

I am 67, am a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and

have written several books--all available on the internet. I

retired from full-time teaching in 1999, part-time teaching in

2003 and volunteer teaching/work in 2005 after 32 years in

classrooms as a teacher and another 18 as a student. In

addition, I have been a member of the Bahai Faith for 53

years. Bio-data: 6ft, 230 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey,

Caucasian.

My website is found at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ You

can also go to any search engine and type: Ron Price

followed by any one of a number of words in addition to:

poetry, forums, religion, literature, history, bipolar disorder,

psychology, sociology, Bahai, inter alia, to access my

writing________________________

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