Two social media networking giants will take a major step forward on Friday, September 28th . Professional social network LinkedIn will add photo capabilities to profile page. Photographers, get ready for a million professional head shots request.
While Facebook gets ready to launch its first IM client, Friendvox. Can’t wait!
There is a fierce competition between the top social networks to see who will provide the most attractive platform and eventually steal the greatest majority of people. I think Facebook is the main player so far although there are a few things I would like to see on Facebook. Mainly, I will like I way to organize my friends into groups and give specific access to each group. For example, I will like to drag and drop all of my professional contacts into my “FB Rolodex” and give them limited access to my pictures. This way I can access them without having to scan through my 500+ friends and I can keep my drunken college pictures private. The IM client will keep me happy for now.
I hear Twitter is coming our with video capabilities. What is that all about? Hit me up with a comment if you have any interesting news about new developments with major social networks. I’d like to hear about people’s reactions to the Facebook IM client as well.
Larry Weber, author of Marketing to the Social Web and founder of the Digital Influence Group, engaged Gather.com users in a live chat about social media today. Below was my particular question was:
Larry’s response:
For quite sometime I’ve been meaning to blog about the transitions people take from the social web to real life. If one of the main motivators to participate in social networks is to meet and interact with other, how is this playing a role in out real social interactions and what are social networks doing to facilitate/leverage this “Social Web to Life” phenomenon?
The future of social media will see the development social networks’ ability to shape face-to-face interactions. What social networks do you know are doing bringing people together in real life under their brand and what opportunities does this give to social media marketers?
www.citizenspace.co/uk provides a well designed forum for people to discuss political and engage in local and central government decision-making. Let’s try to keep it across the pond at least until Bush leaves the White House. He already gets enough hate mail.
And www.talkshoe.com lets you browse, live chat and create podcasts. This is a handy web tool for those interested in audio blogging.
What do Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have in common? It’s not their stance on Iraq I’ll tell you that much. Actually, they’ve managed to engage millions of voters and raise tons of revenue using the social web. Hillary has her very own Hillary TV, a weekly segment where she answers questions posted on her blog and gives a video collection of her latest achievements. She has also cleverly used other popular websites such as YouTube to post her “Clinton Soprano” parody that advertises her campaign song contest. Obama even has his own social web network—My.barackobama.com. They should have gone with Obamaspace.com if you ask me. Members can create profiles, meet other supporters, join groups, and events and, of course, help in campaign fundraising. According to TIME magazine, more than $10 million of Obama’s whooping $31 million second-quarter contributions were made online. However, the prize for “Best Social Web Ideas” goes to John Edwards. Two of Edwards’ top advisors posted a “How-to” video on YouTube for making John’s favorite Pecan Pie, courtesy of “Mama” Edwards. In return for the dish, the Edwards campaign asked for a minimum donation of $6.10 to share the recipe. The video brought in nearly $300,000 in one week! As you can see, these select presidential candidates have recognized an untapped resource for connecting to voters and raising funds. Having a profile on MySpace just doesn’t cut it these days.
Check out how social networking is shaping the “Medisphere”:
1) Sermo.com
The American Medical Association teamed up with Sermo to create a Web-based professional networking community for physicians.
2) DoctorsHangout.com
DoctorsHangout is an exclusive Friendship and Social Networking website for Doctors and Medical Students. As a member, you’ll be able to share your videos, photos, mp3s, and thoughts with other DoctorsHangout users.
3) DoctorNetworking.com
This is the premier professional networking site for physicians and other professionals in health care.
4)Relaxdoc.com
RelaxDoc.com is a private, highly selective online community created exclusively for physicians.
5)Tiromed.com
Tiromed is a professional knowledge network exclusively for students of medicine and physicians.
6)SocialMD.com
SocialMD is a great casual networking tool for physicians
7)ClinicalVillage.com
ClinicalVillage.com was created to give doctors the ability to communicate with other clinicians and build an online community where they can share their clinical and life experience.
MedicSpeak.com
MedicSpeak is a powerful networking site for Physicians, Biomedical Researchers, Medical/Biomedical Students.
If you come across another social networking site that is not in this list, please include it by posting a comment.
