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Facebook , MySpace , Twitter , LinkedIn and Ning are ranked 4th, 11th, 25th, 89th and 154th among all websites in the world, respectively. Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , and the Ning family of social networking sites are the most popular social networks with wide business appeal. have taken the time to position my self on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Ning, with approximately The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

These days it seems everyone is talking about Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Here is just one , but if you type “Social Media” or “Social Networking” and “Nonprofits” into Google, you will find a lot to review.  (I Being a teacher at heart, though, I can’t help but want to explain the differences between all these places - LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.  Some people are on one, but not others. Some are on none, and are befuddled.  “Even if I think it’s a good idea to use Social Networking for our work, which should we use?

You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations take place using a multitude of tools, are threaded in an open place, and don’t have to take place in an existing group space, but instead can be created on-the-fly when the activity arises. A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it.

Some of most popular community assets to support your adoption of value networks and the application of VNA are linked below. See Also Open Value Networks Open Site for Value Networks and VNA Value Network Cluster Retreats, Workshops, Summits and Conferences Products and Services Comprehensive Offerings for Value Networks and VNA Value Network LinkedIn Professional Group for Practitioners, Stakeholders and Enthusiasts Value Network Google Group Open Discussion Group and Listserv for Value Networks and VNA ...Tags: Tags: VNA ecosystems Value Network Community

3) Provide reference: You must provide your title, and a link to your blog/profile/linkedin that indicates your role and title, perhaps a post that announced your title or intentions. Developer Network at Yahoo! John Summers, Community Manager at NetApp Mario Sundar, Community Evangelist at LinkedIn Tom Ablewhite, Community Manager, Thomson Reuters Craig Cmehil, Community Manager for the SAP Developer Network Lou Ordorica, Social Media Producer at Sun Microsystems John Earnhardt, Senior manager, media relations and blogger in chief, Cisco Systems Deirdre Walsh, Community

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LinkedIn tells you how many ties you have at each degree of separation, but other than that you are not given much information about those ties. LinkedIn has another problem too: It makes it difficult for you to connect with your weak ties. No wonder LinkedIn is being eclipsed by other social network services! Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About February Issue, 2009

Google seems to have quite deceptively hidden some information that Buzz is an automatic opt-in regarding "following". As I've said before - social networking providers, especially in the consumer space (Facebook, LinkedIn, and now Google), are in a dilemma. WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw Sure, you can turn it off, but it's not intuitive and you are not pro-actively notified. Disclosure - to say the least - is done in an avoidance fashion. 

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