Showing posts with label wiki. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Social Media Field Guide: Part 3 - Social Networking, Aggregation, Wiki's





Social Networking

Social Networking focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.


Here are some well know social networking services:

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them and elsewhere

MySpace lets you find friends & classmates, meet new people, listen to free music & build playlists, share photos, watch videos, start a blog, read celebrity news

Linked-in strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.

Meetup.com is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies. Users enter their ZIP code (or their city outside the United States) and the topic they want to meet about, and the website helps them arrange a place and time to meet.

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Social Network Aggregation (Click Here)

Wiki's - Example: Wikipedia, WetPaint

(Social Network Aggregation - click here)
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Wiki's

A Wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify contentWikipedia is a free encyclopedia with millions of articles contributed collaboratively using Wiki software, in dozens of languages.Wetpaint is a company that provides social network service and wiki hosting service (or wiki farm). Wetpaint was founded in October 2005. Site URLs are often a subdomain of "wetpaint.com", but custom URLs are also available. Wetpaint targets non-technical internet users who want to collaborate online, and therefore attempts to include easy to use features, such as a three step wiki creation wizard.


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