Social Networking Essays
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Here are three interesting essays about how social networks work. Highly relevant reading for anyone in a social networking company—or investing in one.
5 reasons why social networks fail
5 reasons why social networks can succeed
Situational Relevance in Social Networking Websites
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Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple. He is also the author of The Art of Social Media, The Art of the Start, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
well it is very good
On the other hand, there are real-world social networks: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/06/28/Social-Networks
I aired my own views on this a few days ago.
http://makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com/2006/06/co-operative-crowds-versus-narcissitic.html
Social Network Essays
Here are three interesting essays about how social networks work. Highly relevant reading for anyone in a social networking company—or investing in one.
5 Reasons Why Social Networks Fail
5 Reasons Why Social Networks Can Succeed
Situational Relevan…
Thank you. I am an entrepeneur with social networking related ideas. Collecting as much information and research as I can.
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Guy Kawasaki has a career-relevant post on his site Signum sine tinnitu called Five Reasons Why Social Networking Can Succeed that discusses the benefits of on line social networking tools. On line tools such as LinkedIn, Ecademy, and Ryze allow
None by Danah?
http://www.danah.org/papers/
Thank you, Guy for the useful links! I guess we are all in the networking business. Some fail terribly and some succeed well. It helps to be guided by the experienced and experts.
Social Networking Essays
by: Guy Kawasaki Here are three interesting essays about how social networks work. Highly relevant reading for anyone in a social networking companyor investing in one. 5 reasons why social networks fail 5 reasons why social networks can succeed…
Those *are* interesting posts, Guy.
The first article seems to implicitly state that if you can provide a social network that provides you with more quality connections and doesn’t reward members with lots and lots of connections, the more meaningful the network will be.
I agree with this simply because it mirrors real life. You can have lots and lots of “friends” (like on MySpace) for instance, but having a ton of friends doesn’t necessarily preclude having meaningful connections with them.
The other thing the article suggests is that you need to provide other people in the network. I agree with that too. Getting people hooked up is just the beginning.
Does this mean the perfect social networking site offers quality over quantity and once you have meaningul connections with people, lots to do ?
I bet it’d be a great start.
I think there are two types of people on social networking sites:
1) The people who joined because they were curious about the ‘next big thing’ or because someone they knew invited them and they were flattered.
2) Super-connectors who collect connections like someone who collects baseball cards. These people tend to have very obscure roles, such as quasi-academics in incomprehensible fields or people who are into multi-level marketing and things like that.
The article in the New Yorker a few weeks ago about Facebook made me realise that in some contexts, these sites have real traction but for the general public, I find myself wondering exactly how useful they really are.
I mean, has anyone actually got a job or made a sale through LinkedIn or any of the other business networking sites?
At Multiply.com, we’ve taken on a few of the issues raised in the ‘fail’ entry.
Social Networking sites will have a place as long as the internet has palace in society. People will always use social networking tools to find new friends keep in touch with current friends and express themselves. That is Why I created my own Social Networking website http://www.sociallive.com/ but this is for 18 and over adults only website.