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- Group Commons LLC and Paramount World Group, creators of The IT Summit.
We specialize in creating social networks for businesses. SNS's are not just for kids sharing their photos, music and video. Social networks tools are Web 2.0. They build interaction, commitment, loyalty, co-creation, collaboration. When you are ready to focus on your customers' real interests (rather than just their billfolds and checkbooks), you're ready to consider building your own business network.
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- Founder and CEO of Group Commons LLC. Independent consultant. Business Partner with Paramount World Group -- sponsors of The IT Summit. Currently doing research on the most effective uses of social networking across cultures. Recently spent 4 months living in India researching usage of SNS with rural youth (particularly on cell phones) and a variety of companies, large and small.
Spent 4 months in Central Europe and the Balkins, doing social networking workshops in Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia for universities, grade school children, incubators, and large corporations.
Currently stationed in Boulder Colorado.
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Thank you for the suggestion, I will do that... Can I invite you as a 'friend' on my network? This is an interesting forum, I have forwarded the link to a couple of friends...
Tanya
Another big advance today. You'll remember when we created your site that I promised to invite you to join a network of developers. This is that invitation! Not to replace the fine work that Ning Creators does, but to supplement their Q&A with broader organizational development issues.
http://theningsampler.ning.com will now house the results of our work together -- 100 sites to date -- corporations, universities, incubators, teenagers, school teachers, non-profits, and social movements. On the Sampler we'll exchange ideas, instruct, model, experiment, test and advise. On the site I've outlined a community building curriculum, fleshing it out as we go. We'll examine alternatives inside Ning and outside Ning with 3rd party vendors. The mantra is "functional and beautiful". The site is private. Each participating organization is a private group (primarily for scoped mailing lists); discussions are open to all within the site. You may create new groups and discussions as you see fit.
Click on http://theningsampler.ning.com/?xgi=iMUCcLb and follow the normal signup procedures. Once inside the site, join your group. If your group is not yet there, let me know or create it yourself. You may sign up as many people from your organization as you wish -- be sure to skype me their name and a brief reason why we should approve, prior to giving them the link above.
Enjoy! Let me know if you are no longer interested in Ning or working with this group.
Les Squires
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I think Ning is an ideal place to build social spaces for businesses (given specific requirements of course ;-). I too have been immersed in social platforms for the better part of a year now; some of our advertorial customers are asking us to build spaces that integrate tightly and push content between three primary marketing touch points; website, blogsite, and socialsite.
While MyST Blogsite may be an ideal solution for drawing in new prospects (via the long tail) and helping them to hear the "voice of a business"; the next task is to hug them. ;-) Following the discovery of a brand through organic probing, the prospects (and existing customers) find great value when invited to join a semi-personalized space that allows them to ask deeper questions, understand product and service use cases, and talk directly with other customers.
As such, Ning serves as an ideal solution for businesses that want to extend the outbound marketing message by connecting customers with content that would have required lots of digging to get at.
We're also doing quite a bit of research in the widget/gadget realm an how the atomization of content benefits the website/blogsite/socialsite.
Thanks for moderating this forum. My primary objective is to understand the social networking technologies. I am not ready to expand this among people at work yet.
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