I remember the days when AOL was pretty much the only community in town. In fact, I remember when they billed you by usage time versus a flat monthly fee.
Today, there are many networking communities available. My favorite is MySpace. I have met more people and gained more business from MySpace than from any other networking community.
I'd like to share five tips on using MySpace:
If you are there to network, then make it easy for folks to network with you. Often I find folks who say I need their last name or email address to friend request them.
Since they are currently a stranger, I don't have that information. Their profile tells me they want to meet others but their profile settings make that near impossible. Choose settings that allow others to communicate with you and friend request you.
Share information. Posting ads is not sharing information. I've actually deleted those who only advertise. I want to know YOU. I want to know who you are. Networking is about knowing one another and hopefully helping each other.
If all you do is advertise, I am not going to send business your way. I do not want to send those I know to folks who only pitch products and services.
Join a few groups.
MySpace has thousands and thousands of groups. Do a search and find a few groups that revolve around your interests.
For example, I joined a scrapbooking group. I also joined a group talking about a t.v. show I enjoy. Finally, I joined a Starbucks group as I love Starbucks. Find groups that are YOU and join a few. You'll meet others that you already share something in common with.
Use the email and comment functions.
Talk to others but more importantly when folks talk to you, answer them. I still communicate with folks I met the first day I began networking on MySpace.
Just as I answer personal email in a timely manner, I also try to answer MySpace mail and comments in a timely manner.
Remember your words and photos will be seen by many.
I sometimes shudder when I see someone who claims to want to gain business swearing up a storm and posting very non G rated photos. This is going to turn off potential business contacts.
The bulletin feature is wonderful, but when the topic is a string of profanity I never even open it. When I was working on AOL, we had a rule of "if you wouldn't say it to your grandmother, don't say it here". I really believe this applies in a networking community also.
MySpace is a wonderful networking community. Use it to meet others and make friends.
Audrey Okaneko has worked at home since 1983.
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posted by blogger at 6:34 PM
Today's music fan interacts with a "community" that is far larger than anyone ever dreamed possible before the widespread personal use of the Internet.
This social networking is changing the way people market and sell music and it's doing so on a global scale. Here's How:
One fan hears a song and "tells" a dozen others online. Each, in turn, sends the information (and sometimes the entire song file) to another dozen people, and so on. If the song's hook is catchy and universal enough, the artist can reach thousands of fans in a matter of seconds. It's fast, it's easy, it's free, and it's global.
Does this viral communication bring any income for that artist (or songwriter, or publisher, or manager, or agent, or distributor, or record label)? No. But does it provide vital publicity that has the potential of selling singles, albums, concert tickets and merchandise? Absolutely.
The New Means of Marketing:
This is a quantum shift in marketing. It holds out the possibility of bypassing brick-and-mortar distribution, while severely curtailing the barely-legal forms of radio "promotion" that many in the industry openly refer to as payola or commercial station extortion.
All this is possible thanks to an ever-growing variety of online forms of communication, including music sites, web portals, blogs (weblogs), music forums, and more. A new site called MySpace.com has put all of these elements together in one place. And because of their vision, MySpace is becoming an information destination for bands, fans, filmmakers, writers, artists, record industry professionals, and more.
The MySpace Nation: "Where do you live?" used to be a question that was spoken out loud; it's now typed. The answer to that question used to simply signify which part of a city you were from, with an accompanying suggestion of your socio-economic status, and a hint about which mall might be your usual hangout; it now refers not only to your city, but also your state, region or country.
Your virtual "scene" may involve people anywhere on the globe. My virtual community begins in Los Angeles and extends to Moscow, Big Bear, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, New York, Miami, and several places I have not yet learned to spell correctly.
In fact, thanks to social networks like MySpace, one can interact with several scenes. The people who like my goth songs overlap slightly with the rave-trance songs on my remix album, but they are not interested in the music I create for radio and television commercials (they can be quite disdainful of it, in fact). But each social network welcomes news of new music in their own favorite styles.
MySpace: The Future is Now
With two million members (and growing), MySpace.com offers a multi-level entertainment opportunity involving blogs, instant messaging, classifieds, peer voting, special interest groups, user forums and user-created content.
Is it popular? You bet: they have statistics that show the site receiving 35 million impressions per day at an average of one hour online per visit.
So far, all MySpace services are free, with the site supported entirely by advertisers who are eager to reach exactly the young, web-savvy and web-social music fan that MySpace.com attracts.
Created by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, MySpace is already successful on a level that caught many industry onlookers by surprise.
While the main MySpace site leads to pure social networking, the section of the site called MySpace Music is a revolutionary way to reach their built-in web audience of two million networked users, and has the potential of rapidly expanding beyond that already impressive figure. As a means of launching unsigned and emerging recording artists, MySpace Music is a formidible tool.
Inside the Minds of the MySpace Creators:
"MySpace Music is what MP3.com should have been, but never was," Anderson said. "Very few people go to a website looking for bands they've never heard of.
MySpace Music lets people find music online in the same way they find out about music in person: through their friends. Millions of friends come to MySpace to socialize, and through that process -- word of mouth and recommendations of friends -- bands get exposure to new fans and fans to new music."
DeWolfe continues, "The most exciting use of MySpace Music is the way it's changing the band-to-fan dynamic. A band can go on MySpace and find potential fans all over the country just by sending an e-mail and saying 'Hello.' Bands are developing followings and finding street teams online."
Offering downloads, band web pages, and the ability to connect directly with artists is just part of the attraction of MySpace Music. Each visitor to the site also can participate via user testimonials and ratings. The artists are also able to access a wide variety of music business contacts.
Details from DeWolfe:
G-Man: What's the history of MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: We launched the general MySpace site in September of 2003. Our vision was to create a portal where our users could mobilize and connect around shared interests -- whether those interests be music, television, dating, nightlife, politics, religion or anything else.
G-Man: How does music fit into the MySpace network?
Chris DeWolfe: Almost from the day we launched, music became one of the primary interests of MySpace users. We believe that most people hear and sample new music based on recommendations from friends. The network affect of our site (friends telling friends), allows new trends and music to spread very quickly. At the same time, bands began flocking to MySpace as a mechanism to promote themselves, find new fans, book shows, and even secure label deals.
G-Man: What are the revenue streams for MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: MySpace is currently supported by online advertising and sponsorship. We may add premium services later, but any service we currently offer for free will stay that way. We've been lucky to secure top tier advertisers such as Sony Music, Interscope, Warner Music, Dreamworks, Napster and others. The promotion works for these types of advertisers because most of our users are hip 18-34 year-old influencers who love music and frequently go to movies during the opening weekend.
G-Man: What are the advantages for artists using MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: Artists may sell their CDs on our site. The primary use so far has been for bands to mobilize new fans who they ordinarily wouldn't have met. A band from Iowa can quickly develop a following in New York or Los Angeles. Additionally, bands use the site to book tours and fill venues. The MySpace social network is international. Because MySpace is an online network, it makes geographical boundaries less relevant.
G-Man: Can you compare the MySpace entity with other networking sites?
Chris DeWolfe: Most sites are narrowly focused on business networking, classifieds, or dating. MySpace is a portal that uses a social networking infrastructure. MySpace includes, games, blogs, music, classifieds, forums, mail, instant messaging, and user rankings. Our model has lead to an incredibly sticky site where the average user spends over an hour per session on the site. We have also served more page views than our largest competitor in each of the last three months.
MySpace is just extending functionality around existing mass behavior. Most if not all of those other sites didn't or don't have that luxury -- they were counting on behavior to develop around functionality.
To put it another way, we're not building it, hoping people will come. People are already on the site sharing information about bands; bands are already recruiting fans and local help; users are already clamoring to download music; they're already ranking and rating music; they're already showing up at our parties to hear music they learned about on MySpace.
MySpace music works because two million people are already doing what we're now making it easier for them to do.
G-Man: What marketing arenas are involved (or planned to be involved) with MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: Two of our bigger marketing partners are the Warped Tour and Rock The Vote. The Warped Tour, in particular, is a great fit for us. We are sponsoring the Uproar Stage and bands from MySpace will be playing at Warped Tour venues. This partnership offers great exposure for MySpace Music and participating MySpace Music bands.
Rock the Vote is also a great partner as it fits in with our mission of allowing our users to mobilize around shared interests. MySpace users can register to vote directly from our home page. We will also be participating in several of their music shows.
MySpace Phenomenon On-the-Grow: Strategic partnerships are developing almost as fast as bands are meeting fans on the site. The Los Angeles Music Network (www.lamn.com) will bring its membership base and marketing strength into a partnership arrangement with MySpace.
Linking listeners, reaching behind borders, and uniting musicians with fans and industry professionals, the MySpace nation is a phenomenon. Since a passport is free, everyone in music marketing had better pay a visit. It's at MySpace. See you there.
# # #
Scott G is president of G-Man Music & Radical Radio. His music is on commercials for Verizon Wireless, Goodrich, Monaco Motor Coaches, BAE Systems and more.
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This social networking is changing the way people market and sell music and it's doing so on a global scale. Here's How:
One fan hears a song and "tells" a dozen others online. Each, in turn, sends the information (and sometimes the entire song file) to another dozen people, and so on. If the song's hook is catchy and universal enough, the artist can reach thousands of fans in a matter of seconds. It's fast, it's easy, it's free, and it's global.
Does this viral communication bring any income for that artist (or songwriter, or publisher, or manager, or agent, or distributor, or record label)? No. But does it provide vital publicity that has the potential of selling singles, albums, concert tickets and merchandise? Absolutely.
The New Means of Marketing:
This is a quantum shift in marketing. It holds out the possibility of bypassing brick-and-mortar distribution, while severely curtailing the barely-legal forms of radio "promotion" that many in the industry openly refer to as payola or commercial station extortion.
All this is possible thanks to an ever-growing variety of online forms of communication, including music sites, web portals, blogs (weblogs), music forums, and more. A new site called MySpace.com has put all of these elements together in one place. And because of their vision, MySpace is becoming an information destination for bands, fans, filmmakers, writers, artists, record industry professionals, and more.
The MySpace Nation: "Where do you live?" used to be a question that was spoken out loud; it's now typed. The answer to that question used to simply signify which part of a city you were from, with an accompanying suggestion of your socio-economic status, and a hint about which mall might be your usual hangout; it now refers not only to your city, but also your state, region or country.
Your virtual "scene" may involve people anywhere on the globe. My virtual community begins in Los Angeles and extends to Moscow, Big Bear, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, New York, Miami, and several places I have not yet learned to spell correctly.
In fact, thanks to social networks like MySpace, one can interact with several scenes. The people who like my goth songs overlap slightly with the rave-trance songs on my remix album, but they are not interested in the music I create for radio and television commercials (they can be quite disdainful of it, in fact). But each social network welcomes news of new music in their own favorite styles.
MySpace: The Future is Now
With two million members (and growing), MySpace.com offers a multi-level entertainment opportunity involving blogs, instant messaging, classifieds, peer voting, special interest groups, user forums and user-created content.
Is it popular? You bet: they have statistics that show the site receiving 35 million impressions per day at an average of one hour online per visit.
So far, all MySpace services are free, with the site supported entirely by advertisers who are eager to reach exactly the young, web-savvy and web-social music fan that MySpace.com attracts.
Created by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, MySpace is already successful on a level that caught many industry onlookers by surprise.
While the main MySpace site leads to pure social networking, the section of the site called MySpace Music is a revolutionary way to reach their built-in web audience of two million networked users, and has the potential of rapidly expanding beyond that already impressive figure. As a means of launching unsigned and emerging recording artists, MySpace Music is a formidible tool.
Inside the Minds of the MySpace Creators:
"MySpace Music is what MP3.com should have been, but never was," Anderson said. "Very few people go to a website looking for bands they've never heard of.
MySpace Music lets people find music online in the same way they find out about music in person: through their friends. Millions of friends come to MySpace to socialize, and through that process -- word of mouth and recommendations of friends -- bands get exposure to new fans and fans to new music."
DeWolfe continues, "The most exciting use of MySpace Music is the way it's changing the band-to-fan dynamic. A band can go on MySpace and find potential fans all over the country just by sending an e-mail and saying 'Hello.' Bands are developing followings and finding street teams online."
Offering downloads, band web pages, and the ability to connect directly with artists is just part of the attraction of MySpace Music. Each visitor to the site also can participate via user testimonials and ratings. The artists are also able to access a wide variety of music business contacts.
Details from DeWolfe:
G-Man: What's the history of MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: We launched the general MySpace site in September of 2003. Our vision was to create a portal where our users could mobilize and connect around shared interests -- whether those interests be music, television, dating, nightlife, politics, religion or anything else.
G-Man: How does music fit into the MySpace network?
Chris DeWolfe: Almost from the day we launched, music became one of the primary interests of MySpace users. We believe that most people hear and sample new music based on recommendations from friends. The network affect of our site (friends telling friends), allows new trends and music to spread very quickly. At the same time, bands began flocking to MySpace as a mechanism to promote themselves, find new fans, book shows, and even secure label deals.
G-Man: What are the revenue streams for MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: MySpace is currently supported by online advertising and sponsorship. We may add premium services later, but any service we currently offer for free will stay that way. We've been lucky to secure top tier advertisers such as Sony Music, Interscope, Warner Music, Dreamworks, Napster and others. The promotion works for these types of advertisers because most of our users are hip 18-34 year-old influencers who love music and frequently go to movies during the opening weekend.
G-Man: What are the advantages for artists using MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: Artists may sell their CDs on our site. The primary use so far has been for bands to mobilize new fans who they ordinarily wouldn't have met. A band from Iowa can quickly develop a following in New York or Los Angeles. Additionally, bands use the site to book tours and fill venues. The MySpace social network is international. Because MySpace is an online network, it makes geographical boundaries less relevant.
G-Man: Can you compare the MySpace entity with other networking sites?
Chris DeWolfe: Most sites are narrowly focused on business networking, classifieds, or dating. MySpace is a portal that uses a social networking infrastructure. MySpace includes, games, blogs, music, classifieds, forums, mail, instant messaging, and user rankings. Our model has lead to an incredibly sticky site where the average user spends over an hour per session on the site. We have also served more page views than our largest competitor in each of the last three months.
MySpace is just extending functionality around existing mass behavior. Most if not all of those other sites didn't or don't have that luxury -- they were counting on behavior to develop around functionality.
To put it another way, we're not building it, hoping people will come. People are already on the site sharing information about bands; bands are already recruiting fans and local help; users are already clamoring to download music; they're already ranking and rating music; they're already showing up at our parties to hear music they learned about on MySpace.
MySpace music works because two million people are already doing what we're now making it easier for them to do.
G-Man: What marketing arenas are involved (or planned to be involved) with MySpace?
Chris DeWolfe: Two of our bigger marketing partners are the Warped Tour and Rock The Vote. The Warped Tour, in particular, is a great fit for us. We are sponsoring the Uproar Stage and bands from MySpace will be playing at Warped Tour venues. This partnership offers great exposure for MySpace Music and participating MySpace Music bands.
Rock the Vote is also a great partner as it fits in with our mission of allowing our users to mobilize around shared interests. MySpace users can register to vote directly from our home page. We will also be participating in several of their music shows.
MySpace Phenomenon On-the-Grow: Strategic partnerships are developing almost as fast as bands are meeting fans on the site. The Los Angeles Music Network (www.lamn.com) will bring its membership base and marketing strength into a partnership arrangement with MySpace.
Linking listeners, reaching behind borders, and uniting musicians with fans and industry professionals, the MySpace nation is a phenomenon. Since a passport is free, everyone in music marketing had better pay a visit. It's at MySpace. See you there.
# # #
Scott G is president of G-Man Music & Radical Radio. His music is on commercials for Verizon Wireless, Goodrich, Monaco Motor Coaches, BAE Systems and more.
Labels: myspace
posted by blogger at 6:27 PM
The secret to myspace success is that you are sitting on a goldmine and haven't even noticed it yet. There are millions of people on myspace every single day and most of them are 25 + years old, making it even easier to communicate.
Next if you go to the group section and go under (Business or Money) there are tons of people looking for a opportunity and a new way to make money from home on a part time basis.
So how does one tap into this network and really create massive success and a lot of CASH.
There are many ways to market on myspace, but it has to be done correctly. If you violate myspace they will delete your profile for good and then starting over will become a pain.
One of the worse ways to market on myspace is to spam others and make yourself look unprofessional trust me I get this all the time, people marketing to everyone and anyone about their BEST product its annoying.
So to keep yourself away from that you must create a very targeted marketing campaign to reach out to those that want to know more about how to make money online, become friends with people and BRAND yourself.
The secret to myspace success is for you to understand that myspace is about attracting people to you and really getting them to like YOU not your product. I call this Attraction Marketing, by means is that your bringing people that want to talk to you and your not spamming them to get their attention.
Also myspace marketing can also be used for very high end jobs, Fortune 500 companies whatever it may be Myspace really does work.
Various Marketing Tips:
1. Keep your profile simple but with a lot of information
2. Create blogs and videos about you
3. Try not to sell your product on the profile page
4. Keep yourself looking professional
5. Do not spam others
For more information on myspace strategies and secrets visit us here: http://www.myspacegoldnetwork.com/
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Next if you go to the group section and go under (Business or Money) there are tons of people looking for a opportunity and a new way to make money from home on a part time basis.
So how does one tap into this network and really create massive success and a lot of CASH.
There are many ways to market on myspace, but it has to be done correctly. If you violate myspace they will delete your profile for good and then starting over will become a pain.
One of the worse ways to market on myspace is to spam others and make yourself look unprofessional trust me I get this all the time, people marketing to everyone and anyone about their BEST product its annoying.
So to keep yourself away from that you must create a very targeted marketing campaign to reach out to those that want to know more about how to make money online, become friends with people and BRAND yourself.
The secret to myspace success is for you to understand that myspace is about attracting people to you and really getting them to like YOU not your product. I call this Attraction Marketing, by means is that your bringing people that want to talk to you and your not spamming them to get their attention.
Also myspace marketing can also be used for very high end jobs, Fortune 500 companies whatever it may be Myspace really does work.
Various Marketing Tips:
1. Keep your profile simple but with a lot of information
2. Create blogs and videos about you
3. Try not to sell your product on the profile page
4. Keep yourself looking professional
5. Do not spam others
For more information on myspace strategies and secrets visit us here: http://www.myspacegoldnetwork.com/
Labels: myspace
posted by blogger at 6:26 PM
In order to survive in the internet marketing world, you need to be able to generate traffic. The amount and quality of the traffic is important because it will determine the level of success for your online business.
There have always been efforts to find new and innovative methods to sending traffic to a website. But one method that is often overlooked involves the use of Myspace. Therefore, in this article, you will learn how to increase Myspace traffic in order to promote your business to a large audience.
The first step you need to take when you are trying to learn how to increase myspace traffic involves the use of keywords. You need to really make the content on your Myspace profile keyword rich.
The use of keywords in your myspace profile will help to improve the rankings of your profile for those particular keywords in the search engines.
The second step in how to increase myspace traffic is to make the profile livelier. Make sure you add videos and images to your myspace profile in order to appeal your visitors. This will make them revisit your profile every so often.
The third step in how to increase myspace traffic involves the task of building your friend network. The key to generating traffic with this friend revolves around how big your network is.
If you have a huge network of friends that have an interest in the topic of your target market, then you can almost guarantee your self really good traffic to your website. If you want to learn how to increase myspace traffic, then I really suggest that you start here.
The fourth step for learning how to increase myspace traffic involves the use of building backlinks to your myspace profile.
The more backlinks you have with similar sites, the more traffic and better search engine rankings you can get for your profile.
Melvin Perry is an internet entrepreneur that specializes in building large email lists within a matter of weeks. You can snatch these videos at no cost by visiting Free traffic building videos
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There have always been efforts to find new and innovative methods to sending traffic to a website. But one method that is often overlooked involves the use of Myspace. Therefore, in this article, you will learn how to increase Myspace traffic in order to promote your business to a large audience.
The first step you need to take when you are trying to learn how to increase myspace traffic involves the use of keywords. You need to really make the content on your Myspace profile keyword rich.
The use of keywords in your myspace profile will help to improve the rankings of your profile for those particular keywords in the search engines.
The second step in how to increase myspace traffic is to make the profile livelier. Make sure you add videos and images to your myspace profile in order to appeal your visitors. This will make them revisit your profile every so often.
The third step in how to increase myspace traffic involves the task of building your friend network. The key to generating traffic with this friend revolves around how big your network is.
If you have a huge network of friends that have an interest in the topic of your target market, then you can almost guarantee your self really good traffic to your website. If you want to learn how to increase myspace traffic, then I really suggest that you start here.
The fourth step for learning how to increase myspace traffic involves the use of building backlinks to your myspace profile.
The more backlinks you have with similar sites, the more traffic and better search engine rankings you can get for your profile.
Melvin Perry is an internet entrepreneur that specializes in building large email lists within a matter of weeks. You can snatch these videos at no cost by visiting Free traffic building videos
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posted by blogger at 6:24 PM
Are You on MySpace?
.. you probably are since MySpace currently has 194 MILLION registered members.
Did you know that there are only four countries in the world (China, India, United States, Indonesia) with more than 194 million citizens?
That is, if MySpace was a country it would be the fifth largest in the world.
The scale of this platform is staggering and that's why I think you are missing something if you do not have a footprint on this unique social networking platform.
Let's imagine you are running a hotel on a beach somewhere in the world. You can start sending "friendship invitations" to people whom you think would be interested in spending their holidays at your hotel.
How you do that? You can search MySpace by keywords like "travel," "holiday," "vacation" or even "retired," etc.
Once you have a list of MySpace members who have those keywords in their profiles, you can start sending invitations by a single click to add them as your "friends." It's a labor-intensive process since each invitation must be sent individually and there's no way to automate it (which somewhat cuts down the spam).
When the other party accepts your invitation after visiting your site and deciding to become your "friend," the other party is automatically added to your list of "friends," which is basically your MySpace "distribution list."
Now, again imagine you are running a 50% off weekend special. All you need to do is to prepare your ad copy and with one click broadcast it (and your live URL links) to every friend on your list as a Bulletin.
There are many folks with 5,000 to 40,000 "friends" accumulated over time. When they have a new product or a new show or anything that they'd like to communicate to their list, all they have to do is click a button and all of a sudden thousands of interested parties get their message. And it's all FREE too!
In theory, you can reach millions of people the same way since there is no difference in terms of the effort involved in sending a message to 10 or 10,000,000 "friends." How are you going to beat that in terms of advertising ROI (Return On Investment)?
MySpace also allows you to leave public or private comments, send private messages, create daily blog entries, paste your own photos and sound and video clips and a whole lot more.
If you still do not have a MySpace site you should perhaps think about the business advantages of getting one today.
Ugur Akinci, Ph.D. is a senior writer and web content consultant with 20 years of experience.
Subscribe to his FREE "Web Wise Writing" Newsletter today at Ezine Article Readers Special page
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.. you probably are since MySpace currently has 194 MILLION registered members.
Did you know that there are only four countries in the world (China, India, United States, Indonesia) with more than 194 million citizens?
That is, if MySpace was a country it would be the fifth largest in the world.
The scale of this platform is staggering and that's why I think you are missing something if you do not have a footprint on this unique social networking platform.
Let's imagine you are running a hotel on a beach somewhere in the world. You can start sending "friendship invitations" to people whom you think would be interested in spending their holidays at your hotel.
How you do that? You can search MySpace by keywords like "travel," "holiday," "vacation" or even "retired," etc.
Once you have a list of MySpace members who have those keywords in their profiles, you can start sending invitations by a single click to add them as your "friends." It's a labor-intensive process since each invitation must be sent individually and there's no way to automate it (which somewhat cuts down the spam).
When the other party accepts your invitation after visiting your site and deciding to become your "friend," the other party is automatically added to your list of "friends," which is basically your MySpace "distribution list."
Now, again imagine you are running a 50% off weekend special. All you need to do is to prepare your ad copy and with one click broadcast it (and your live URL links) to every friend on your list as a Bulletin.
There are many folks with 5,000 to 40,000 "friends" accumulated over time. When they have a new product or a new show or anything that they'd like to communicate to their list, all they have to do is click a button and all of a sudden thousands of interested parties get their message. And it's all FREE too!
In theory, you can reach millions of people the same way since there is no difference in terms of the effort involved in sending a message to 10 or 10,000,000 "friends." How are you going to beat that in terms of advertising ROI (Return On Investment)?
MySpace also allows you to leave public or private comments, send private messages, create daily blog entries, paste your own photos and sound and video clips and a whole lot more.
If you still do not have a MySpace site you should perhaps think about the business advantages of getting one today.
Ugur Akinci, Ph.D. is a senior writer and web content consultant with 20 years of experience.
Subscribe to his FREE "Web Wise Writing" Newsletter today at Ezine Article Readers Special page
Labels: myspace
posted by blogger at 6:02 PM
Social Networking has become increasingly popular nowadays as there are a lot of sites that offer this service.
MySpace and Friendster are two of the most popular sites that aim to build communities of people who share common interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.
THE PROS
A social networking site is like a virtual meeting place where people can hang out and discuss different topics. Anything under the sun, in fact.
Some use these networking sites to promote their blogs, to post bulletins and updates or to use them as a bridge to a future love interest.
These are just a few of the reasons why social networking is getting a lot of attention lately -- it makes life more exciting for many people.
THE CONS
However, it would be best to make sure that safety and security are the topmost concerns of the social networking site that you currently use. This is because social networking sites require or give you the option to provide personal information such as your name, location, and email address.
Unfortunately some people can take this as an opportunity for identity theft. They can copy your information and pretend to be "you" when engaging in illegal activities. Bad news! So be cautious with what you enter into an online networking site.
You could fall into the trap of someone who pretends to be somebody else. For example, they might offer you a job or want to meet up with you just to get your money. This can lead to cyberstalking, where the stalker uses electronic media such as the Internet to pursue or harass you.
THE CONCLUSION
So take your time and be careful in choosing who to trust so you can hopefully avoid this sort of unpleasant thing happening to you. Apart from that, social networking is great thing.
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MySpace and Friendster are two of the most popular sites that aim to build communities of people who share common interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.
THE PROS
A social networking site is like a virtual meeting place where people can hang out and discuss different topics. Anything under the sun, in fact.
Some use these networking sites to promote their blogs, to post bulletins and updates or to use them as a bridge to a future love interest.
These are just a few of the reasons why social networking is getting a lot of attention lately -- it makes life more exciting for many people.
THE CONS
However, it would be best to make sure that safety and security are the topmost concerns of the social networking site that you currently use. This is because social networking sites require or give you the option to provide personal information such as your name, location, and email address.
Unfortunately some people can take this as an opportunity for identity theft. They can copy your information and pretend to be "you" when engaging in illegal activities. Bad news! So be cautious with what you enter into an online networking site.
You could fall into the trap of someone who pretends to be somebody else. For example, they might offer you a job or want to meet up with you just to get your money. This can lead to cyberstalking, where the stalker uses electronic media such as the Internet to pursue or harass you.
THE CONCLUSION
So take your time and be careful in choosing who to trust so you can hopefully avoid this sort of unpleasant thing happening to you. Apart from that, social networking is great thing.
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Labels: myspace, social bookmarking
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The general concept behind social bookmarks is rather simple, it’s the democratization of resources, users that have signed up for an account, can store lists of Internet resources that they think to be useful.
These lists can be used to the public by users of a specific network or website. Other users that enter on these specific sites can view the links by topic, tags, category, or even randomly.
The concept behind a structure of social bookmarking system is that rather than a link stored in a web browser such like Internet Explorer or Firefox, saving a bookmark instead save the bookmark to a publicly accessible web site. Think about your fellow. It could benefit from seeing your bookmarks.
Why Tags are important parts into the bookmarking system.
You’re probably asking what is a Tag. Well, this is the part more nice. What are some of the interesting trends you’re looking at in terms of where the business voip market is going?
Skype? well, what is the best way of find all your blog about the word skype? Once clicked on the tag skype you find all articles associated to this word.
In other words a tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information that describing the articles and allows keyword-based classification of information.
Voting system: The just way to increase your turn.
Some of social bookmarking sites they also has a voting system with which users they can indicate what bookmarks they found useful.
An example is 76newalways.com. As a bookmark receives more and more votes, it’s prominence on the web site increases which in turn attracts more and more votes. The ultimate is to have the bookmark appear on the homepage of the social bookmark site.
A social network service is a social structure that connects generally individuals or organizations. A characteristic factor of the network services are connections between people through more specific types of relations for sharing digital information with friends, family, and so on.
A social network service is essentially a starting point for budding entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas, or hopefully to share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring or secure either solid advice from experience.
Provide a collection of activity for users to interact, such as chat, file sharing, video, discussion groups, email, messaging, voice chat, blogging, and much more.
Such as values, financial exchange, kinship, visions, idea, friends, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, or airline routes.
It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model, rooted in a conversational format between authors and people.
While Del.icio.us, Simpy, Digg and 76newsalways.com store lists of Internet resources that they find useful, Myspace, Flicker and all the other web 2.0 aren’t places to go, but things to do, and a way to collaborate and express yourself.
With the web 2.0 technology you can get millions of users generating content, millions of users organizing that content, tens of thousands of users distributing that across the Internet.
I put the current description of some famous social bookmarks and offered some brief descriptions on what I think are some of best social networks.
I tried to keep it simple to all users, so to embrace those read it. For those that read this blog post, I’ve brought together 10 of the prettiest social networks and social bookmarking.
Del.icio.us
Founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, the website del.icio.us is a web-based personal and social bookmarking service, for communities of people with interests and activities of storing, sharing, and discovering web or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.
Simpy
Simpy is a web-based personal and social bookmarking service that enables users to upload contents online. The service launched in May 2004 and is one of the oldest social bookmarking services that still operates independently. Simpy is all about user powered content. Simpy is a social bookmarking service that provides to save, tag, search and upload your articles, and more.
Digg
Simpy is a social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, notes, groups and more. it’s allows you to track what new contents in your network are bookmarking or “dotting.”
Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the Digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that’s important to you!
76newsalways.com
76newsalways is a social content website powered by users like you. Similar to the popular Digg.com it lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, news and more. You must be Register as a member to add content into the site. Any story can be voted by the users that are registered. the quantity of votes an article receives, increase the placement on our site.
Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
Stumbleupon
StumbleUpon is active community and addictive sharing features have attracted millions of users. StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and share great websites, photos, videos, and news articles. As you click Stumble!, it deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences and has such a high hit rate in delivering interesting new content.
Reddit
Reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you’ll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit is submitted and voted on by users like you.
Flicker
Flickr is a photo-sharing community that enables users to upload hundreds of photos and tag each photo with descriptive words. Other users can then search on these tags, enabling them to find and comment on the photos of other users. Even better, Flickr exposes a rich set of Web services that make the service highly hackable.
Myspace
MySpace allows to create your own global community where you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends.
Twitter
A global community of friends answering one simple question. Launched in 2006, Twitter is a web site and service that allows people send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends and strangers. Messages can also be sent and received via instant messaging
Conclusion
Social bookmarking system or network are a recently new phenomenon on the Web. It’s a fusion of sociology and technology, in a unique structure. These systems play an important role in the process of internet modernization not only because they distribute data, but also allows to share and create content for others to participate and is set to offer a very rich experience for all users. Social Media is, at its most basic sense, a shift in how people discover, read, and share news and information and content.
Nicola Deiana works in software development since 2000s, with emphasis on software requirements and development methodology. He is the author of a popular site for lovers of the technology
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These lists can be used to the public by users of a specific network or website. Other users that enter on these specific sites can view the links by topic, tags, category, or even randomly.
The concept behind a structure of social bookmarking system is that rather than a link stored in a web browser such like Internet Explorer or Firefox, saving a bookmark instead save the bookmark to a publicly accessible web site. Think about your fellow. It could benefit from seeing your bookmarks.
Why Tags are important parts into the bookmarking system.
You’re probably asking what is a Tag. Well, this is the part more nice. What are some of the interesting trends you’re looking at in terms of where the business voip market is going?
Skype? well, what is the best way of find all your blog about the word skype? Once clicked on the tag skype you find all articles associated to this word.
In other words a tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information that describing the articles and allows keyword-based classification of information.
Voting system: The just way to increase your turn.
Some of social bookmarking sites they also has a voting system with which users they can indicate what bookmarks they found useful.
An example is 76newalways.com. As a bookmark receives more and more votes, it’s prominence on the web site increases which in turn attracts more and more votes. The ultimate is to have the bookmark appear on the homepage of the social bookmark site.
A social network service is a social structure that connects generally individuals or organizations. A characteristic factor of the network services are connections between people through more specific types of relations for sharing digital information with friends, family, and so on.
A social network service is essentially a starting point for budding entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas, or hopefully to share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring or secure either solid advice from experience.
Provide a collection of activity for users to interact, such as chat, file sharing, video, discussion groups, email, messaging, voice chat, blogging, and much more.
Such as values, financial exchange, kinship, visions, idea, friends, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, or airline routes.
It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model, rooted in a conversational format between authors and people.
While Del.icio.us, Simpy, Digg and 76newsalways.com store lists of Internet resources that they find useful, Myspace, Flicker and all the other web 2.0 aren’t places to go, but things to do, and a way to collaborate and express yourself.
With the web 2.0 technology you can get millions of users generating content, millions of users organizing that content, tens of thousands of users distributing that across the Internet.
I put the current description of some famous social bookmarks and offered some brief descriptions on what I think are some of best social networks.
I tried to keep it simple to all users, so to embrace those read it. For those that read this blog post, I’ve brought together 10 of the prettiest social networks and social bookmarking.
Del.icio.us
Founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, the website del.icio.us is a web-based personal and social bookmarking service, for communities of people with interests and activities of storing, sharing, and discovering web or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.
Simpy
Simpy is a web-based personal and social bookmarking service that enables users to upload contents online. The service launched in May 2004 and is one of the oldest social bookmarking services that still operates independently. Simpy is all about user powered content. Simpy is a social bookmarking service that provides to save, tag, search and upload your articles, and more.
Digg
Simpy is a social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, notes, groups and more. it’s allows you to track what new contents in your network are bookmarking or “dotting.”
Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the Digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that’s important to you!
76newsalways.com
76newsalways is a social content website powered by users like you. Similar to the popular Digg.com it lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, news and more. You must be Register as a member to add content into the site. Any story can be voted by the users that are registered. the quantity of votes an article receives, increase the placement on our site.
Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
Stumbleupon
StumbleUpon is active community and addictive sharing features have attracted millions of users. StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and share great websites, photos, videos, and news articles. As you click Stumble!, it deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences and has such a high hit rate in delivering interesting new content.
Reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you’ll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit is submitted and voted on by users like you.
Flicker
Flickr is a photo-sharing community that enables users to upload hundreds of photos and tag each photo with descriptive words. Other users can then search on these tags, enabling them to find and comment on the photos of other users. Even better, Flickr exposes a rich set of Web services that make the service highly hackable.
Myspace
MySpace allows to create your own global community where you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends.
A global community of friends answering one simple question. Launched in 2006, Twitter is a web site and service that allows people send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends and strangers. Messages can also be sent and received via instant messaging
Conclusion
Social bookmarking system or network are a recently new phenomenon on the Web. It’s a fusion of sociology and technology, in a unique structure. These systems play an important role in the process of internet modernization not only because they distribute data, but also allows to share and create content for others to participate and is set to offer a very rich experience for all users. Social Media is, at its most basic sense, a shift in how people discover, read, and share news and information and content.
Nicola Deiana works in software development since 2000s, with emphasis on software requirements and development methodology. He is the author of a popular site for lovers of the technology
Labels: myspace, social bookmarking