By Myra Norton on
3/10/2008 8:51 AM
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "social networking"? This is one of the questions I’ve started asking folks before I give a talk or lead a meeting to share the work we do here at Community Analytics. I ask because I find that the responses are varied, and to really talk about how to connect with an audience through social networks, it’s important to make sure we’re speaking the same language. Invariably, the answers to that question are "facebook", "myspace", "blogs", etc. I find that last one kind of humorous now that I am blogging because I would not describe it as a particularly "social" endeavor.
If I am lucky, there will be one or two people in the room who will say something like, "a circle of friends" or "personal and professional relationships" or the like. I think it is important to make the distinction between "social networks" ...
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