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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. SocialNetworks: Past, Present & Future. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of socialnetworks?
I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that I have this done I feel I need to say some words about connecting on socialnetworks. Let’s start with a discussion of existing socialnetworks and then how to approach people on them. Facebook. That seldom happens.
This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of socialnetworking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). And so it goes with socialnetworking.
Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : SocialNetworking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Socialnetworking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can socialnetworking be a money-maker for companies?
I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. The next users after that is reading a blog post that I wrote nearly 9 months ago. It’s now 20 minutes later and there are still 64 people active on my blog.
Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical socialnetworking in the same way that Quora is. It’s a highly engaged audience and the content generated from many of the blogs (not all) are highly valuable. If you use any standard commenting system on your blog or website you’re sub-optimizing engagement.
Los Angeles-based Pringo, which develops white label socialnetworking software for enterprises, said earlier this week that it has launched a beta of its latest version.
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Santa Monica-based Cornertone OnDemand, a provider of software-as-a-service tools for human resources management, said this week that it has added new socialnetworking features to the firm's product. The new product provides online communities, user profiles, blogs, and wiki features for business collaboration.
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With the advent of socialnetworking sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, Internet usage has totally morphed, from a serious business medium, to a social and fun medium that still means business. Here are the current big three in socialnetworking for business: Facebook is biggest, moving from social to business.
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Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Step 2 — connect your socialnetworks to CHNL.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: A Comprehensive View of Social Marketing, Social Media, and SocialNetworks. Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social platforms can be low-cost marketing tools (great for anyone in this economic climate!)
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Sometimes I’ll see people who want to make people aware of a blog posting. Tags: Social Media socialnetworking technology Twitter. If you precede the message by anything, even a dash and a space like, “- @deblanda nice to see you&# then everybody will see it. When does this come into play? I have 1,200.
On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.
More Visible Networking? Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique socialnetwork, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Tony: I personally am torn by choices around Networking Events in Los Angeles – you can go to something almost every night. Example here: [link].
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The firm's app shares routes, places, photos, and other content with others, which can be shared with user's socialnetworks, embedded in a blog, and more. The firm said that the HipGeo app for iPhone allows users to record what they did during the day, and then share their trips and stories with others.
And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. The ability to get inches in major journals (NY Times, WSJ, The Economist) as well as your industry trade journals and tech blogs in invaluable. That’s why keeping a personal blog is so great.
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We started with the initial idea of building vertical, B-to-B social environments, and soon figured out that was a terrible idea. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have socialnetworking and advertising backgrounds. And, it is a socialnetwork. A socialnetwork without people is an oxymoron.
Audiolife's software allows artists to sell downloads, ringtones, CDs, and other merchandise from their web sites, blogs, or socialnetworking sites. The company said the funding will go to hire key personal, further develop its technology platform, and for strategic partnerships. Audiolife is headed by Brandon Hance.
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Worlize is a user-created social gaming and chat platform for Facebook and socialnetworks including Twitter, MySpace and OpenSocial. Their latest addition to Worlize is the ability to for a “Chat Now” badge to be placed on your blog.
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