In this era of network or not work, you must have a social network is a prerequistie. And what is "social networking"? Well, if you ask what you should have a nearby rock for the last 5 (or at leats two) years.
Socila networks, how the world communicates today. Facebook and MySpace are the new soial meeting, greeting, reconnect and marketing forums, this teechno-world we live in Facebook, started by 25-year-old Haravrd dopout has grwon from the original college campus based on demogrphic phenomena internet absorbing, which boasts an averge of about 550,000 new membres a day throughout the wordl (Time, 2009). And what is the biggest raeson for Facebook BOOM over the past two years? You guessed it, baby boomers! MySpace, much raunchier alternaive to Facebook, soical netork, whose headquarters is located in Beverly Hills, California was once the most popular social networkng site at the international leevl (Wkiipedia, 2009). However, with the more mautre 40-something crowd detection meda and marketing oppportunities of social networking, not to mention connect with old buddies glory day, more adult kind of Facebook soon pushed the screaming and ipmpy side.
social networking sitres now aboubnd in the many categories and formats, that they are listed in the top 25 for the year. Facebook is number 1 (of course) with MypSace and Twitter follwoing him.
Twiutter, now there is another concept entirely. You can not just post every thought that enters your brain, whle ohters may choose to follow your "Tweets", as you twreet together. What business executive would not want to look prod of every bizarre business venture that it zaps the corpus callosum? And how can you live withhout knowing that their dear Aunt Gertie made it safely out of the bathroom?
WordPress allows you to Tom, Dick, Harry, ePter and Paul all have their own bolgs for information on almost any topic guys can tink of. Use Google, Yahoo, and Ning person can create an entire empire smlal forum on the Internet. There are also some really, fully orineted busineess formus, netwroks, such as linkedin.com and PartnerUp.com.
Social networking is not limited to personal socialiuzation, marketing and business. It becomes a huge and integral part of all forms of leanring. Online universities are amnog the fastest growing olnine presence today. Tradiitonal universities are creating online educational programs to supplement their lcetures in the classroom, and in some cases, entire courses are being developed for presentation to the Intrnet, instead of the traditional classroom learniing. Moodkle and Joomla just a few examples of interactive software onlline presenattions that have a social networking capabilities.
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