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As social networking continues to find its niche and importance as a collaborative enabler, some folks (myself included) believe that person-centric designs (while helpful in some situations) may fall short for business cases.
Imagine if you were to build a social interaction map based on the creation and utilization of information objects. Mapping the social fabric […]
Today, Ryze founder/CEO Adrian Scott announced plans for significant changes intended to improve the quality and experience of business networking on Ryze. None of the plans are written in stone at this point, and he has opened it up to the Ryze membership at large for feedback.
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A recent profile of LinkedIn in the Oakland Tribune highlights some of the more interesting facts about the site, as well as their future direction.
Some of the highlights include:
- “While LinkedIn.com is a free site, and intends to keep providing a free service in the future, it plans to launch a premium service that would […]
In what appears to be the first-ever paid product placement in a social networking site, Wired News reports that Friendster is promoting profiles of characters from the new movie Anchorman. This might come across as just an innovative new marketing ploy, if it weren’t for Friendster’s history of dealing with “fakesters” (fictitious profiles set up […]
From my co-author, David Teten:
I just received the email below from Amazon:
You have been selected to answer a quick survey regarding online networking, online services that enable business professionals to store and generate new contacts with other business professionals online. You may or may not currently be an active user of an online networking service, […]
Wish I’d known about this sooner, but it’s still not too late:
The Global PR Blog Week 1.0 is an online event that will engage PR, marketing and business bloggers from around the globe in a discussion about blogging and communications. The event is scheduled for July 12 - 16, 2004.
There’s already some great content posted […]
A new feature from photo-sharing/social-networking site flickr allows users of TypePad, Blogger, MovableType, LiveJournal and many others to turn any blog into a moblog in a matter of minutes.
via A Whole Lotta Nothing
The Internet was made to connect people, not just information. For many of us, email and other online communication has only become a dominant mode of communication in the last few years. We’ve dealt with faces and eye contact and body language and vocal inflection almost all of our waking hours. Many […]