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Social Networking with Plane Passengers

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:39:12 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy
clipper's remarks: Would you make your seat discoverable? Now I can chat with that cute boy I wished I was sitting next to. sweet!

Clip Source: jensthraenhart.com

AirTroductions, who allows people to connect with like-minded fliers - either in the personal or professional realms - who are traveling on the same flights.

Virgin America, wants to encourage meeting people while on the airplane via SMS. Built into the back of seat console is something Virgin calls a "seat to seat chat." Presumably, it only works for passengers who put their seats into "discoverable" modes, but a very cool idea nonetheless. If Virgin America would build a community similar to the one KLM built but focused on meeting like-minded people (whatever that may mean), and allows people to match-up before the flight, I think things could get interesting in the air...

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Tags: socialnetworking, socialmedia, airtroductions, virgin

PR in Social Networks

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:28:32 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy

Clip Source: www.briansolis.com

With a little imagination, you can envision how the new generation of social presence applications and social networks appeal to marketers and PR.

They represents the ability to spark conversations with people directly, as well as those that influence them, in new and unique ways. And, they're forcing PR to evolve and step out from behind its cloak of anonymity.

Here's my top 10 list of what to do whether targeting people through social or traditional media

1. Determine your value proposition and the most likely markets that will benefit from your news.

2. Humanize the story. Personalize the story. One version no longer cuts it.

3. Identify the people you'd like to reach and how they prefer to see information.

4. Read and/or watch their work.

Don't start pitching right out of the gate.

Listen. Learn. Respect

7. Don't pitch. Stand out. Be compelling.

Repeat the previous steps as you move across the disparate groups of people you need to reach.

Tags: pr, soicalnetworks, socialnetworking

social networking trumps sex

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:52:10 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy
clipper's remarks: I can see how this is true. The trend is toward building relationships online more than staring at static "sex" sites. Why not go on Facebook and find someone with a hot profile picture and reach out to them, send them a message and get a dialog going. Much more exciting than looking at porn.

Clip Source: www.webpronews.com

Bob Caswell at ~~Computers.net~~ TechConsumer wrote of The Economist's report on the downward shift for sex as the draw of social networking continues to grow.

Tags: socialnetworking sex

Social Poster - Maximize Your Social Media Participation and Traffic

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:54:46 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy
clipper's remarks: Interesting... Gonna have to try it out

Clip Source: www.pronetadvertising.com

Social Poster is a service that helps you quickly and easily submit content from a particular site to multiple socially driven sites without having to enter the title, body, and other information over and over again. You simply type in all the information once, choose all the sites that you want your content submitted to, and click the 'generate links for submit' button.

Tags: socialposter socialnetworks socialnetworking appli

Social Network and Teens.. Latest Stats

Tue, 01 May 2007 20:24:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 46% said they give false info on their profiles... not surprised.

Clip Source: www-03.ibm.com

55% of online teens have profiles online; 45% do not.
Of those who do, 66% says their profile is not visible to all Internet users and that they limit access to their profiles in some way.
Among those who profiles can be accessed online, 46% say they give at least a little and sometimes a good deal of false information on their profiles.
Most teens are using the networks to stay in touch with people they already know, either friends they see a lot (91%) or friends that they rarely see in person (82%)
32% of online teens have been contacted by strangers online -- this could be any kind of online contact, not necessarily contact through social network sites.
21% of teens who have been contacted by strangers have engaged an online stranger to find out more information about that person (that translates to 7% of all online teens)

Tags: teens socialnetworking+teens socialnetworking

Review social networks and communities with BuzzShout

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:22:07 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy

Clip Source: www.buzzshout.com

BuzzShout tracks the hottest web technology companies through listings, social reviews, and editorials.

Each review on BuzzShout can be shouted for. If you find a review particularly useful, interesting, or just plain hilarious, Shout It! This way, it'll be easy to separate the good reviews from the chaff.

Try to keep reviews relevant to the company in question. Do not use reviews solely as a billboard for promoting a rival company.

Talk about its features: What do you like? What don't you like? Be specific.

If you hate the company and its services, don't just rant about it. Make a suggestion!

Tags: buzzshout socialnetworks socialnetworking reviews

ShowYourself Widget: Social Networks Aggregator

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:01:20 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy
clipper's remarks: I love widgets!

Clip Source: www.newsgator.com

ShowYourself is a widget for aggregating all your social networks - Digg, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Virb, YouTube, Twitter, Last.fm, del.icio.us, PureVolume and more - in one place.

Tags: socialnetworking

Anheuser-Busch social-network

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:57:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.marketingvox.com

Anheuser-Busch, to set itself apart from wine and hard liquor, which have been cutting into beer sales, has partnered with social network MingleNow in a photo-sharing push called "clink" as part of its 18-month-old "Here's to Beer" campaign, which aims to elevate the image of beer, writes AdWeek.

The promotion invites the site's 300,000 users to submit and share photos of themselves "clinking" beer when out and about. A-B snubbed MySpace, which has an enormous audience but a large under-21 segment, and opted for MingleNow, which aims to connect members based on the places they socialize.

Tags: socialnetworking

social networks for sports

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:29:06 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

iSporty, a social network for sports, will launch tomorrow. If the site looks at all familiar, that’s because it’s really a relaunch of TiredandTested, which we wrote about at the end of last year. It’s pretty clear in this iteration that iSporty will cater mainly to the UK market, and global users might feel a little lost among the hordes of soccer fans.

You need to be logged in to see the full extent of the new features, which include the site’s TV web channel iSporty TV, regularly updated sporting news, blogging, fansites, scrapbooks and photo sharing. There’s also the ability to keep a calendar and post events. Groups, meanwhile, are populated with photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube and Google Video - there’s Google Maps integration, too. The interface is an acquired taste: the brown, red, gray and blue takes a little getting used to, and I think the old design was less stale.

I partially understand the benefits of narrowing your scope to one country (no competition), but I also think it’s less ambitious than taking on the world: wouldn’t you rather follow the MySpace and Netvibes strategy of launching a global/US site first before rolling out national versions?

Other sports social networks include Takkle, FanNation and Ultrafan.

Tags: socialnetworking

Webkinz: Stuffed Animals Second Life

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:32:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

They are called Webkinz, huggable, plush toys with elaborate virtual lives that spotlight how children's play is changing, moving effortlessly between the real world and the Web. And in less than two years, they have become must-have items for tech-savvy 'tweeners.

Webkinz combines classic stuffed animals with popular online trends, such as social networking and instant messaging. Other toys and Web sites have made similar efforts. Remember the late-1990s craze of Tamagotchi, billed as the world's first digital pet? More recently, Neopets.com began manufacturing such plush toys as the "cybunny," which mirrored the virtual animals on its site. But Webkinz claims to be the first to marry the physical and the virtual from its inception.

Each stuffed animal comes with an identification number that gives children access to the Webkinz site ( http://www.webkinz.com/). There, owners discover their pets' online personas ("I'll let you in on a secret," reads the profile of a cocker spaniel. "I love fish sticks, and I've always wanted a bunny clown.") Children can buy clothes for their pets using virtual money, outfitting them in baggy jeans or pink tutus. They can also decorate their pets' virtual rooms with such items as a stove, a boy-band poster or a bed shaped like a pirate ship.

Tags: socialnetworking, virtualworlds

55% of Teens use Social Networking Sites

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:21:05 GMT

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Clip Source: overtonecomm.blogspot.com

It was quite interesting and reminded me a little of Second Life with its avatars and social networking. So, a few days ago when the Pew Internet Research released its newest study about teens showing that more than half (55 percent) of all online American’s aged 12 to 17 use online social networking sites (pdf of report memo).

This means that half of all American teens can be considered content creators. A vast majority of teens (91 percent) use these sites as a way to keep in touch with real-life friends and with friends they rarely see in person (82 percent).

So, what happens when these content creators and social networkers enter the workforce in a few years?

Tags: socialnetworking+teens, socialnetworking

Toyota Launches Social Network for Hybrid Owners

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:05:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Smart move for Toyota

Clip Source: clickz.com

Toyota has relaunched its Web site at Toyota.com/hybrids to allow hybrid owners to post videos, share photos and meet other owners. It's also challenged owners to discuss their reasons for buying a hybrid vehicle. The site has already registered nearly 10,000 users.

Along with the ability to group owners by attributes like age and even vehicle color, the site offers features like an interactive map and a gas savings calculator. By providing a space for owners to group together, Toyota has an opportunity to reach them with targeted messages in the future, according to Ryan Thomas, executive producer for Firstborn.

Tags: toyota, blog+corporate, socialnetworking

del.icio.us launch Tagometer widget

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:20:49 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

Del.icio.us Launches Tagometer Widget - Bookmark This Post!

December 20, 2006

Pete Cashmore

Posting social bookmarking links on blog posts and news stories has become the norm these days - the New York Times even announced this month that they’re adding del.icio.us, Digg and Facebook Share buttons to their articles. In fact, Yahoo even employs people to make sure that top publications have branded del.icio.us links on their article pages (we know because they contacted Mashable in the past).

So it’s no surprise that del.icio.us is launching a new website widget today, taking blogger self-promotion to a whole new level. “Tagometer”, as it’s being called, provides a button for readers to bookmark a website, tags for that website and a tally of the number of people who have bookmarked the site. The badge is created using javascript, so it won’t work on social networks like MySpace. It seems the Tagometer widget is mainly designed for use in your blog sidebar - this allows readers to easily bookmark your site, and for newcomers to see how popular your blog is. That said, you can also use it on individual posts. One slight issue is that the widget automatically detects the page it’s on - if you’re viewing this on the Mashable homepage, it’ll bookmark Mashable. If you’re on the individual post page, meanwhile, it’ll bookmark the post itself.

If you’re a Feedburner user, also note that Feedburner has released a new FeedFlare unit today that incorporates this detailed data.

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Tags: del.icio.us, tagging, widgets, social bookmarking, socialinternet, web2.0, blogs