Way back in 2000, Amy Jo Kim wrote the book on best practices and strategies on how to start, build, grow, and maintain online communities in Community Building on the Web : Secret…
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Successful SNS’s should be modeled on the college campus
The future of Social Network Services (SNS) can be discovered on High School and College campuses. I believe that topic-specific “vertical” SNS’s are very important, but I also think that…
Read MoreIs there still room for new social networks?
If you’re like me, you probably remember a period not too long ago when you couldn’t open your e-mail without getting another invitation to join a new social network. The…
Read MoreWhen is social search coming? What? It’s here?
“Social search” has been discussed for a long time, but in the last couple of months it has sneaked up on some of us. Like Web 2.0, people talked about…
Read MoreThe age of privacy is over
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has attracted a lot of attention lately over his new stance on privacy, with some claiming his attitude is tantamount declaring the age of…
Read MoreWas SETI@home the first social network?
How did a lot of people get their start in social networking back before Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and blogs existed? They got their geek on and signed up for SETI@Home….
Read MoreTwitter communities
Image via CrunchBase Some social media outlets foster a sense of a smaller communities among its members, with LinkedIn connections or even Facebook Groups. Twitter seems less oriented to forming…
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Are you a missionary for your business?
Time was that marketers were carnival barkers. They had to shout louder and longer than everyone else so that they could interrupt you to interest you in their wares. But…
Read MoreHyperTargeting: The future of online advertising?
Have any of you been keeping up with the attempts of social networking to add advertising to the mix in the hopes of bringing in some cash? Facebook took a…
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