Ron Price has engaged in social networking and publishing on the internet for over 15 years. He maintains a personal website as a central hub for his writing and interacts with readers at over 8,000 other sites by posting extended writing in the form of essays, poems, and articles. Through this extensive online presence, Ron Price has built a large readership of several million and shares his perspectives on various topics. He retired from teaching in 2005 and now pursues writing as a self-employed author and publisher online.

1. 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, that is, community
building, 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, 2003 to 2013, 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 one’s 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, but
it is not my style, not my approach, not my MO, modus operandi, to use a whodun-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 don’t 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 17 years: 1997-2013. 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. 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 69 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 that
restaurant, 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 industrious
exercise. 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: Christians only, Muslims only or some other form of exclusivist sitepolicy. Sometimes what I write is considered spam and, even after I defend my
case, I am sometimes excluded from some site. In cyberspace as in any real
space, one cannot win all the time.
C. MY WRITING STYLE AND MY VALUES
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3. 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 fusing
together material from many academic disciplines, from my own life as well as
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; one’s writing appeals to some and not to others. One’s value, belief
and attitude base is a set of assumptions around which one places one’s
emotions and then proceeds to act and argue one’s 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 most
casual-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 literary
success, 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.
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4. 2.It is my hope that what I write as a result of this self-employment, this literary
vocation and avocation, this pleasurable occupation of my leisure time,
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 4000 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 or Ron Price forums or Ron 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: 1943-2013
2010-2013-Retired and on an old-age 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
--------ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS OF RETIREMENT---------------------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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5. 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
---ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS LIVING IN AUSTRALIA AND BELOW THIS
LINE ARE MY YEARS LIVING IN CANADA------------------------------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 2013
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6. I have been married twice for a total of 46 years. My second wife is a
Tasmanian, aged 66. We’ve had one child: age 36. I have two step-children:
ages: 47 and 42, three step-grandchildren, ages 19, 17 and 2, as well as one
grandchild aged 2 years. All of the above applies in July 2013. I am 69, 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 Baha’i 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, blogs, literature, history, bipolar
disorder, psychology, sociology, media studies, inter alia, to access my
writing________________________
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7. I have been married twice for a total of 46 years. My second wife is a
Tasmanian, aged 66. We’ve had one child: age 36. I have two step-children:
ages: 47 and 42, three step-grandchildren, ages 19, 17 and 2, as well as one
grandchild aged 2 years. All of the above applies in July 2013. I am 69, 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 Baha’i 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, blogs, literature, history, bipolar
disorder, psychology, sociology, media studies, inter alia, to access my
writing________________________
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