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Where is Social Networking headed?

March 24th, 2008

Is content, and conversations about content, driving the next social networking wave?

By now, we do know that pure social networking sites MySpace, Orkut, ibibo, Fropper, Facebook, etc, generate content [profiles, pictures, audio, video, blogs, events] and conversations [guestbook, comments, discussions, personal messaging]. These were the first wave social networking sites.

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7 reasons to Blog

March 6th, 2008

We were working on a blog site for a client, who over the course of a few years has also become a friend and well-wisher of our company.
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Being socially responsible can also be profitable

March 5th, 2008

Being socially responsible has always been fashionable in the corporate world. But after Al Gore’s moving and thoroughly inspiring ‘An inconvenient truth’, a lot more companies have jumped the bandwagon of being social responsible or environmentally friendly.
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Social Finance: The next revolution on the web

February 29th, 2008

Social finance seems to have gained root on the web. Sellaband is a great concept. It enables musicians and their fans to raise the money for a professional recording, selling music through the site and the sharing of any advertising spoils. At the end everyone makes money – the artist, the believers [fans] and the site itself.

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IdeaStorm brews community ketchup

February 29th, 2008

The other day, as part of my regular gallivant on the web, I spotted IdeaStorm, the new community site by Dell Computers.

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FAQs for Newbies at MBN Network and Mixers

March 7th, 2007

What’s MBNM? Why does it exist? How can it benefit participating businesses and individuals? Does it work equally for all businesses? How can students benefit… and more, answered here.

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Business Networking Tips

March 7th, 2007

I have put together a list of links on Business Networking, which I have found very helpful. Browse through these and enrich yourself.

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The Origins of Social Networking

March 7th, 2007

I have always had an abiding interest in business networking. In particular, I have been seized for a while with issues such as the origins of networking and what makes networks grow. There’s enough literature on the salutary effects of networking, especially for business on the WWW, but little on what I wished to know. This article is an attempt to look at networking from a larger perspective.

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