DAVE CLARKE: Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me by Penny Power

by Dave Clarke

Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me is the title of the new book from Penny Power. The book is all about what social media means for you and your business. Penny founded Ecademy, the online network for business people, in 1998 - five years before Facebook started!

Penny has written the book to share what she has learned in that time about the effective use of social networks and social media. In the book she takes you on an easy to understand journey through the online world. She shows how you can use social networks and social media to take responsibility for your personal brand and build a strong future in this changing business world.

The title is a great demonstration of the fact that this is not a passive world. You cannot simply have a presence and expect to grow your business. You have to do things and form deep relationships to become part of a community where what you get is a result of what you give first.

Above all the lesson from penny is that being online is not about the technology it is about the people. If you go about it in the right way you will build a strong financial future and a strong emotional and spiritual one too.

Read more from Penny at the Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me Blog.

Until next month ...

Good Networking!
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF NETWORKING: Let's Start with a Simple Conversation

The Psychology of Networking with Christine M. West, MS, CMHT

It’s funny as technology has advanced and we have so many means to develop our human relationship capital through communication yet we still miss connecting, hearing and communicating effectively with others. It is almost as though we have forgotten in some ways how to be human!

As human complexity has set in, we have become avoiders of simple conversation. For example, we meet people in social networks or in person and we send e-mails back and forth and believe this is efficient conversation. Or, we often mistakenly believe that the e-mail recipient has the same interpretation of our words as we intended. Too often we miss the opportunity to pick up the phone or to meet in person to clarify the meaning of our message. And we end up reducing the opportunity to grow a relationship or end up creating unnecessary conflict and stress in existing relationships.

Our communication today has become more fragmented and more fear-based. We have become increasingly isolated from one another as we move ever faster at frantic speeds. We seek consolidation in everything, but fail to find it in one another. We have learned to embrace the new instead of noticing and appreciating what we already have. Thus we have learned to choose fear , play conflicted games with ourselves and have forgotten the true source of wellness - the connection to one another. This connection is comprised of the most powerful network of all - the human relationship system.

Many of us refuse to see that fear keeps us apart and weakens the true potential of our human relationship system. Unfortunately, we all have lists of people whom we fear. If we tried to communicate with them, it often creates a wall within us and we shut down what might be possible to learn from that person or about ourselves. We need to learn to be able to talk to those we have named our “enemy.” We need to stop manufacturing interpretations that keep us separated. We need to stop our contradictive behavior—we say we want connect with a group and then we promote harsh judgment about the members of that group. Or, we say we are open-minded and then we judge someone for being different. Or we say we are flexible yet our schedule is too rigid to allow any relationship capital to prosper.

For relationship capital to prosper, we need to create meaning and purpose in our conversations while listening to one another. If we begin to slow down and start talking about what we care about, stop blaming, stop avoiding, stop ignoring one another and stop engaging in fear-filled chitchat—well, what might we discover? We can only change and connect if we start listening and paying attention to one another while being open to share who we are. We need to be to a role model and encourage simple, honest conversation in which there is no arbitration or debate, in which each of us has a chance to speak truly and feel fully heard while allowing enough space in the relationship to grow and for it to prosper.

The truth of accomplishing this type of simple conversation is that it takes time and a willingness to practice. Part of the practice is becoming self aware of our own strengths and weaknesses in our own communication style. What triggers us to put up a wall and shut others out? Practice is also about relearning our own speaking, listening and social skills. We need to slow down our minds and pay attention to the communication and behaviors that is being conveyed from us and to us. We need to hear one another without judgment so that the fragmentation and isolation can stop.

Awareness, truth and accountability start within us. Everything exists because of our relationship to it, for nothing exists in isolation. The best relationships are built on simple honest conversation.

Genuinely,
Christine

Author: Christine M. West, TheBusinessMD, 2240 E. Tudor Rd. #976, Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99507. Phone 1-907-223-8403. Email: info@thebusinessmd.net, http://www.businessmd.net/ TheBusinessMD offers transformational services to assist better human relationships in the workplace Ms. West is also a featured columnist for the National Networker http://www.thenationalnetworker.com/


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Social Media Design: Best Practices To Build Your First Open Social Widget

from Robin Good's blog ("Be Smart, Be Independent, Be Good")

OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications across many websites which in the end makes it very easy for a large number of individuals to start developing their own social web applications.

Photo credit: UK Open University - edited by Robin Good

Three characterizing traits make OpenSocial such a very compelling proposition for would-be new social web developers:

a) Developers only need to learn the OpenSocial APIs in order to create web apps that work with any OpenSocial-enabled website.

b) Developers have a broad distribution network to reach users because any website can easily implement OpenSocial.

c) Websites also benefit by engaging a much larger pool of third-party developers than they could without a standard set of APIs.

But how difficult is it for you to develop social apps using OpenSocial?

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When friends are not near, and questionably dear

From IndyStar.com


Welcome to the 21st century definition of friendship, where digital connections are replacing the in-the-flesh kind. It's a world where people use social networking sites such as MySpace (110 million users) and Facebook (50 million) to proclaim who they are through postings, photographs and music -- and find like-minded people to share their lives.

Users, especially teens and 20-somethings, create avatars in virtual landscapes such as Second Life and form real-life bonds with digitized projections of strangers. They use text-messaging, Web chat rooms and e-mail to keep up with pals instead of phone calls and dates...

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faberNovel - Research Paper on Social Network websites

faberNovel Consulting issues a new Research Paper on best practices from leading social network websites

Online social networks and meeting platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Meetic are currently developing at a frantic pace. These companies have been reporting two or three-digit growth rates and most of them have launched intensive acquisition campaigns in the last two years or are now being targeted by major media groups. The sector is beginning to structure itself around some key players, which have succeeded in becoming the reference platform within their field, as the result of their innovations and positioning.

Social networks have numerous specificities. A company’s ability to identify and understand these specificities, and offer suitable answers, results in major success within this field. Today, this sector appears mature enough to enable a study of the market’s leading firms’ development in order to identify their “best practices” and to propose a specific framework analysis for each type of website....

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Understanding the Dynamics of Social Networks

As social networks grow users tend to “cluster” around affinity activities. topics and users. The cluster effect has historically been applied to urban agglomeration, as most kind of commercial establishments will tend to spontaneously group themselves by category

The cluster effect is similar to (but not the same as) the network effect. It is similar in the sense that the affinity preferences of both the medium and its participants are based on each ones perception of the other rather than the medium simply being the sum of all its participants actions as is usually the case. Thus, by being an effect greater than the sum of its causes, and as it occurs spontaneously, the cluster effect is a usually cited example of emergence.

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12 years of social networks - who was first?

This gives a quick overview of social networking. Check it out.

By Spectator(Spectator)
What was first social network on the web? Many sources give the answer - the first one was Classmates.com. Classmates.com is a social network created by Randy Conrads in 1995. The Classmates.com website helps users find, ...
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Networking with Heart

By Linsy Guerrero, Social Networking Editor Linsy's Bio Email article RSS feed

Networking can be beneficial for many obvious reasons; to gain contacts, earn new business, make friends, seek employment, just to name a few. There is a reason that some individuals network that is not often discussed, perhaps because it is networking in an uncommon form. Plain and simple, it is networking for a charitable cause. The social networks that come together for charitable organizations and events create an enormous community of their own, combining so many other established communities already. They bring together people of different genders, religions, ages, ethnic backgrounds, socio-economic status, and regardless of the differences, everyone is their supporting a cause (and usually one very close to their heart). I had the fortunate opportunity to take part in an amazing event for the first time recently this year. For those of you who have never had the chance to participate in one of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3 day walks around the country, I would like to take you inside one of the most memorable experiences of my life.

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How Can I Miss You If You Don't Go Away?

from SiliconValley.com
Good Morning Silicon Valley

Now it’s practically a given that your time online is social time. Between commercial and peer pressure, you’re expected to maintain both a public presence for general interaction and a semi-private sphere for friends and family, both updated in real time with your activities, opinions, latest interests, location, and cultural tastes. The vehicles for this presence were homepages at first, then blogs, and now the widget-laden profiles on the social networking sites, along with an endless flow of pinging, poking and tweeting. It’s sort of funny that a system built by notoriously socially awkward geeks has turned into a mammoth, never-ending cocktail party. But that’s where we are, and right now, billions are being bet on monetizing the world of constant acquaintanceship.
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Closed Social Networks

from Marshall Sponder's Web Metrics Guru blog...

BusinessWeek wrote an article about Social Networking with the Elite yesterday that focuses on Social Networks that are meant to be invite only like INMOBILE.ORG:

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INMOBILE.ORG

Launched in April, 2006, INmobile.org is a network of more than 900 executives who work in or close to the wireless industry. To qualify, you have to be at least a director at a large company, a vice-president at a mid-size company, or in the C-suite of a startup.

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Meet emerging mobile social networks

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By Jessica Dolcourt – November 15, 2007, 4:30 PM PST


New social networks are born each day, and at the Under the Radar conference (see all posts) a new batch is on display. Most are in early funding stages, and one is so new it's still in closed beta. The other three are ready for a try-out.
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Social Networks are Launching Everywhere and for Everything Imaginable

Strategy: What Say You?

By Jay Deragon, TNNW Contributing Writer

The proliferation of new sites confuses the marketplace of users. Your Space is getting duplicative, aggravating, crowded and a time drain on your productivity. The craze by operators is aimed at generating traffic which in turn creates increased advertising revenue.

Advertising grab is the major motivating factor in the social networking space today. Just consider the recent developments:

MySpace recently announced full integration into the mobile market regardless of handset or carrier. The mobile market already has an abundance of social networking applications launching on numerous networks but few, if any, enable complete connectivity to any network thus again forcing users to jump from one application to another. The driving factor for these launches is grabbing ad space thus revenue.

A recently released U.S. mobile advertising forecast by The Kelsey Group indicates that the U.S. mobile ad market will grow from US$33.2 million to US$1.4 billion in 2012, a CAGR of 112 percent. The Kelsey summary concludes that the potential of mobile advertising is about change, though for years forecasters and pundits have touted the potential but U.S. market has failed to materialize.

The forecast breaks mobile into three distinct ad segments: ad-sponsored directory assistance, mobile Internet (search, browse, etc.) and multi-modal applications. The two largest contributors of revenues, says the report, will see a substantial increase in usage: For more information on the KelseyGroup, please visit this link.

Chasing Video Advertising opportunities

eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey. Next year, digital ad spending will increase 32%–amounting to nearly $28.8 billion, Ramsey said in his opening remarks at OMMA New York on Monday morning. The future? Branded and video advertising, said Ramsey, assuring that branding dollars are fast on their way to matching the budgets spent on search. "With video, you can do a heck of a lot better job of storytelling," he said.

OnLine Media writer Gavin O’Malley states "Now big business, Web videos are watched by 72% of Web users–or 135 million people–every month. Ad spending around them is set to hit $775 million this year, and $1.3 billion by next year. With YouTube in tow, Google is poised to lead the burgeoning video market, and grab the bulk of ad dollars flowing into the medium, according to Ramsey. "

What are the greatest challenges facing online marketers today? Audience fragmentation; ad clutter; consumers’ eroding trust in marketers; and something Ramsey likes to call "trend-itis"–or the propensity for marketers to blindly follow trends without implementing proper checks and balances.

As things stand, 76% of marketers say ad agencies don’t provide them with sufficient data on ROI. Most marketers, said Ramsey, express a "vague undercurrent of discontent with their agencies."

A Simple Solution

The end users of social networks, whether online or mobile, are the factors that drive traffic. The current market of social networks is stealing time from users, individuals and corporations alike. To create more traffic and user creativity it would seem that the shortest distance between two points, advertisers and their markets, is a straight line.

If we the users were given the opportunity to earn an income for our time, talent and contributions to social networks then we the users would become the focal point of market expansion. Corporation, individuals, groups etc. would then be able to justify their time, talent and contributions to social networks.

Instead of creating yet another social network the market would be smart to simply tap into the network as it is, the users.

What Say You?

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Is Anyone Else Getting Social-Networked Out?

By Jason Alba, TNNW Career Transition Editor

I’m the first to admit, I’m social-networked-out. It happened sometime last year when I got an invitation to a different network each week. Now I get about three invitations a week, and I haven’t changed my mind about joining them.

I have a MySpace page, which I created just to see what it was all about and haven’t logged in for at least a year.

I have a Facebook account, and I do appreciate some of the features there (I love the birthday notifications – I have found out about my friends’ birthdays that I would have never known about. But, choosing applications to add to my account is a little confusing. Some are a waste of time, very few are valuable to me, and I have a small concern about what access I’m giving to others if I load an application.

I have a LinkedIn account, of course (I better, I just wrote a book titled "I’m on LinkedIn – Now What???"). I’m most comfortable in this space since I’ve spent the most time there. I’ve heard others say that LinkedIn is too old, obsolete, and left in the dust by newer networks (like Facebook), but the truth is, it still "does the job," and it does it well.

Aside from that, I really don’t accept invitations for other networks. The funny thing is, one of the hottest internet companies around allows YOU to create your own social network in about two minutes, for free! Just go to Ning.com and you can have a social network based around your family, business, industry, city or whatever else you can think of!

But don’t invite me to your social network, because I’ve already got my hands full. Nonetheless, I’d like to share 7 things to help you get the most out of whatever social networking you choose to do:

Have a purpose: Why are you on the social network? Is it to expand your network, keep track of their changes, or remind yourself to nurture the relationship? Some networks are going to be better than others for each of these purposes – but one of the keys is that other people join and connect with you.

Keep the proper perspective: these websites are just tools. They aren’t your networking silver bullet, and they won’t make all your wildest dreams come true. They are just tools… if nothing else, remember to go offline and network in person!

Realize you don’t need to be an early adopter: If you want to be an early adopter you’ll spend a lot of time setting up profiles on new networks, poking around, figuring out value… are you a software evaluator, or are you using these tools or a reason??

Don’t get sucked into the noise and hype: It’s easy to add new widgets, and poke around different features, and spend way too much time in your social network without really networking. Again, another time waster, in my opinion.

Fix your preferences: Do you want to log into the social network every day? Me neither. Check out the preferences to see if you can set up e-mail notifications for certain things. For example, in LinkedIn, you can set your account to send an e-mail to you when someone asks a question in Answers, but not send an e-mail when someone updates their profile.

Quit and decline: It’s okay if you stop using a social network, or if you delete your account and move on. And it’s okay if you ignore invitation requests, or don’t load the coolest new application. If your social network accounts become mental clutter, it’s probably best to just move on and network in a different manner. I give you permission.

Be in the right place, at the right time: You really need to have some kind of online presence. If you are in transition, or moving in that direction, you should have a complete account on LinkedIn (it’s free!), and an account on Facebook. Just by accepting connections you increase your visibility, and the chance that a recruiter or hiring manager will find you.

Are you social-networked-out? More importantly, what networks are you on, and where do you find real value? Shoot me and e-mail (don’t twitter me, don’t leave me a message on my wall, … I live out of my e-mail, not my social network).

Jason Alba is the job seeker's advocate (and aren't we all job seekers?). He got laid off in January 2006, just a few weeks after Christmas. Even though he had great credentials and it was a job-seeker’s market, Jason could hardly get a job interview. Finally he decided to step back and figure out the job search process, including trying to understand all of the available resources. Within a few months he had designed a personal job search tool, JibberJobber.com, which helps professionals manage career and job search activities the same way a salesman manages prospects and customer data. Get a free account at www.JibberJobber.com and begin managing your career right now. Jason blogs at www.JibberJobber.com/blog, recently celebrated his first blog birthday and a book called "I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What??" You can learn more about his book by clicking here.

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NJAWBO – A great networking opportunity for all
By RUTH GATLING, Mid-Atlantic Bureau Chief

Now that summer is winding down, a lot of networking events are on the horizon. Why not include a couple of NJAWBO functions on your calendar? Any professional interested in expanding their network will find NJAWBO to be a great resource.

There are many who believe that the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners is a "Women only" organization. Not true! Anyone can participate and take advantage of the events and training offered.

Networking Ideas
By BETTE DAOUST, Ph.D., Southwest Bureau Chief

Wow, the summer has just flown by and the networking has been good. When most people are on vacation and not thinking about business is the best time to get out there and network. It may be too late for this past summer but it is definitely something to think about when the next holiday season rolls around.

Let me explain a little further. I attended a trade show in Mountain View this past week. There were over 200 vendors and around 1000 attendees at the event. If this event had been held during the fall or spring, the attendance would have been twice that figure. This gave me a better opportunity to be noticed and to connect with people that were serious about networking just from the fact that they were attending an event during the summer.

The Prosperity Revolution
By MEIRA FINDEL, Financial Editor

Over a year ago I was blessed to connect with a wonderful angel living on planet earth – Karen Curry. Somehow, like 18,000 others, Karen got onto my email list and via email an amazing relationship was born...

Back in February Karen came to New Jersey to participate in a Financial seminar I coordinated and I immediately became another one of her many, many students. So far I’ve completed her Prosperity Boot Camp program and am currently enrolled in her Build A Thriving Practice year long program.

NetWorking From Here and There
By MARIA ELENA DURON, Multicultural Networking Editor

Minority-based networking groups abound from face-to-face networks, alumni based organizations, faith based, industry based and even on-line. Each minority population (i.e. Hispanics, Asians, etc.), house a host of cultures. For example, Hispanics can include people whose nationality or lineage hail from Puerto Rico, Spain, Mexico, Central American, Cuba and Brazil, to name a few. You’ll find those who hail from the Philippines, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Guam and several other countries that consider themselves Asian within the Asian culture.

The On-Line Networker’s Laptop
Circa Holiday and End of Year Tax Season 2007
By MIKE O'NEIL, Technical Editor

In the next few issues, leading up to the holidays, we will be discussing the on-line networkers best friend – the laptop. What it is and what you can do with it for better your networking success. It always gets a little more interesting as the holidays come around with gifts, tax deductible purchases and the flood of new technology that comes around at the end of the year.

Creativity in Networking
By HARVEY MATHASON, Contributing Writer

In Writing to Change the World, Mary Pipher discusses the founder of Outward Bound U.S.A, Josh Miner, who said "If you are lucky, just once in your life you will be associated with a great idea." Pipher says, "If I have one great idea, it is that connecting people might save the world." Just think of the grandiose idea that being a part of The National Networker is like being a part of saving the world. Yes, by connecting people that is exactly what you are doing. It’s not just about business and money. In fact, connecting people may be the best thing you can do to save the world.

Jetnetting
By HESHIE SEGAL, Contributing Writer

Relationships thrive on eye contact. If you can’t make eye contact, you are revealing a lot about your nature. Are you shy? Are you modest? Are you dishonest? And, what do you think about the other person and their ability to make eye contact? Do you pass judgment ? If you do, you are not alone; many of us do this subconsciously.

Power Thought of the Week
By PATRICIA PARHAM, Ph.D., Contributing Writer

Powerful "Asks" for Friends and Acquaintances

As you know, networking for referrals from people who don’t know your work first-hand is often an ask for “someone who may know someone”. Be candid about their level of knowledge about you and your work, thus protecting their integrity. Offer references or a small demonstration of what you can do. Most importantly with this, and all other “asks”, don’t be attached to outcomes, they are not a reflection on the source.

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Inspiring NetWorkers
Building Our Inspiring NetWork of Networkers
By MARK STURGELL, Great Lakes Bureau Chief

Build Your Network Nationally
By PETER BIADASZ, Southern Plains Bureau Chief

With a Little Help from Oprah
By LOUISE FLODIN, Health and Wellness Editor

Nuts About Networking
By CANDY WEBB, Network Marketing Editor

Surfs Up!
By LINSY GUERRERO, Social Networking Editor

On Fire for Financial Freedom
By ANN BARCZAY SLOAN, Women's Networking Editor

Even If You’re Getting All the Referrals You Need, You Still Need to Sell!
By IVAN MISNER, Ph.D., Networking Success

Powerful "Asks" for Colleague Referrals
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Nokia (NOK) tangos with social networking

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"Web 2.0 Bill of Rights?" from Madisonian.net

If you’re a student, professor, or lawyer of a certain age, you may feel a need to be on some social networking site–be it Facebook, Linked-In, or even MySpace. You might want to create one site for your friends, and another for your professional colleagues. But before jumping on, consider the business plan of a data scraper like RapLeaf:

Rapleaf [is] a people search engine that lets you retrieve the name, age and social-network affiliations of anyone, as long as you have his or her e-mail address. . . . Upscoop.com [is] a similar site to discover, en masse, [the] social networks to which the people in your contact list belong.

There’s a nice discussion at Crooked Timber. The bottom line is that you take a calculated risk when joining these sites. Even if you don’t create ”bad news that follows you,” you at least generate opportunities for the nosy to unearth all manner of communications, opinions, and likes you happen to make public.

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Social Networking Sites Entice Wall Street

Analysis: Investors keep watch as Classmates.com may become the first to go public.

Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:00 AM PDT

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By Georg Szalai and Paul Bond - Analysis

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Social networking Web sites have fired up industry deal headlines the past couple of years -- from News Corp.'s ground-breaking acquisition of MySpace to the recent purchases by the Walt Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.'s Logo network of Club Penguin and DowneLink.com, respectively.

Now it looks as if social networking could heat up the market for initial public offerings.

United Online Inc., a provider of consumer Internet and media services, recently registered for an IPO of its Classmates Media Corp. arm, which operates networking site Classmates.com.

Wall Street observers believe Classmates could test the IPO waters for a couple of other big names: Facebook, which has emerged as the biggest challenger to MySpace, and the more business-oriented LinkedIn.

Add to that comments from the CEO of U.K. social networking powerhouse Bebo.com about a possible IPO, and one gets the potential for a social networking feeding frenzy on the Street.

Amid the current global debt market jitters, some have suggested that IPO deal flow could slow as investors focus on conservative, known stock plays. Others point out that there has been little to no effect on the IPO market, which has sizzled this year but is on its traditional mid-August through Labor Day break as investment bankers go on vacation.

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Tough time ahead for Indian networking sites

Priyanka Joshi And Sapna Agarwal / Mumbai/New Delhi August 28, 2007

Competition with online international networks hots up in cyberspace .

The online social networking market is getting crowded. With international social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace becoming a part of the daily routine for the 38.5 million Internet users in India, the Indian social networking wannabes will have a tough time ahead.

To name a few, Reliance ADA group’s Bigadda.com, Yaari.com founded by Stanford University graduates Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, MIH India’s portal Ibobo.com, People Group’s Fropper.com and many others are here for a “friendly” tussle.

The Internet user base is estimated to grow to 100 million by 2007-08, according to Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). It is estimated that 10 per cent of the present Internet audience is active on social networking portals, which is close to 4 million users today.

By all measures, online networking in India has moved beyond scrapping, a term used for posting messages on the social networks, to become a more interactive medium. The users now experiment with over a dozen-odd sites present in the cyberspace before narrowing down to a couple of favourites.

The question that still remains, however, is how many social networks any single user is likely to join and remain active in? Siddhartha Roy, chief operating officer, BigAdda, comments: “The aim of our site is to increase the user stickiness, and hence our obsessive dedication towards user generated content like blogs, music and video.” The portal is eyeing 10 million users by 2010.

Roy says BigAdda would soon make a debut in mobile phones and regional languages. “Games and content sharing tie-ups with Zapak.com will materialise in the next few weeks. We are also looking for third party content providers,” he adds.

Orkut, a social networking portal bought over by Google, is hugely popular in India. For Orkut, moving to a mobile version and integrating Google applications on its social networking portal seems to be the next logical step.

Vinay Goel, products head, Google India, concurs that Google’s ownership of videos through YouTube and its services like Gmail and instant messenger should see an integration with Orkut. He also indicated that a “single sign in” platform, wherein the user could log in with a single user name, can be expected.

Although Goel does not discount the competition from Indian networking sites, he says, “It would be difficult for any single site to gain the user volume that Orkut has.”

There are financial reasons fueling the competition too. Globally, advertisers are expected to spend $1.9 billion on online social networks by 2010, up from $280 million in 2006.

Quite expectedly, Sequoia Capital has already invested $2 million in the Indian start-up minglebox.com, a site focusing on the college and student alumni networks.

For smaller players like Yaari.com, gathering a sizeable user base seems to be the immediate priority. The site is gifting iPods to its most popular users in an attempt to grow its network.

Having created a successful online matrimonial portal like Shaadi.com, People Group seems to have immense faith in its online dating and networking site, Fropper.com, that garners 70,000-1,00,000 registrations a month, or so claims the company.

“With a registered user base of 2.5 million people, our site has managed to increase the average time per user on the site from 8-10 minutes per visit to 15-30 minutes per visit,” says Navin Mittal, business head, Fropper.com.

Meanwhile, others like the South African media conglomerate Naspers’ Indian subsidiary, MIH India, is popularising contextual networking, blogging and photo sharing services on its networking portal, ibibo.com.

Ashish Kashyap, chief executive officer, MIH India, is hopeful that the trend of users migrating from Orkut to other social media sites would accelerate in future.

“The reasons for migration range from privacy concerns, finding like-minded people and friends on other sites to features like blogging, photo sharing, polling and others,” he adds.

However, the irony of the current generation of online social networks is that although their premise is leveraging the Internet to connect people, their own lack of interconnectedness could stifle their potential.

How about considering an interoperable social networking platform? Many of the fun-seeking Facebookers may actually be the very same respectful professionals at LinkedIn or techTribe. So, we need a system that connects all social networks — that a user is a member of — and shares basic functionalities.

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