Within the past couple of months we have been working smart and hard on a new social network and community site. In order to build the site architecture and design prototypes we conducted in-depth research on social networks and the target audience for the site. One result of this research is our latest report on social networks.
We are offering this report to the public free of charge. It’s 35 pages and full of valuable information on preparing, maintaining, and supporting a social network. It also features a comparitive analysis on the various methods that some of the most popular social networks use within their design.
Download the report (PDF, 750KB)
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Great work Chris and thank you for sharing. Crisp and valuable insights.
I’m sure your report is a first of its kind! I am posting a link to the same from my blog[ http://biznetworking.blogspot.com ]
Warm Regards,
Naina Redhu
http://www.aside.in
Naina Redhu — August 1, 2005, 4:27 am
Excellent work Chris,
With all the noise going on in online networking particularly, it is good to have an overview of the key players and what they represent.
This is particularly useful for people getting started and inviting and attracting others to join one’s preferred networking sphere(s).
Thankyou
Shaun
Shaun Gisbourne — August 1, 2005, 9:01 am
I looked into this report as I use a couple of social networking services, and was interested in learning more. It’s odd that they don’t mention namesdatabase.com at all, as that is the one all of my friends, especially internationally, are using, and it’s huge compared to the ones they’re talking about here.
Andrew McPherson
Andrew McPherson — August 13, 2005, 10:59 pm
Hi Chris,
I’ll add your report on my blog (fundraising.blogspirit.com). Inside of this report i want recommend the website of “Accion Sin Fronteras” a good networking of NGO’s to LatinAmerica: http://www.idealistas.org.
For Greenpeace is an interesting study to consider in our strategies about networking.
Best Regards and congratulations (i’ll add your blog as link recommended to the spanish users)
Gonzalo Ibarra
Gonzalo Ibarra — September 17, 2005, 1:32 am
What are good companies that can design your comunity network for your company
jason — October 27, 2005, 10:11 pm
We design and build social networks. The report was published as part of the research phase on a current project launching in the next few months.
Chris Nagele — October 27, 2005, 10:38 pm
The reason that namesdatabase.com is not mentioned is probably related to the fact that it’s an email harvesting system for spam.
Anonymous — December 2, 2005, 7:43 pm
I love the idea of online communities for the good. Sometimes they can be “poised” for the bad by certain users. Any ideas on security for these new communities?
jeffster — February 3, 2006, 6:07 pm
good work and very useful for me to start up an online communities in China. If you have any updated information, please inform me..
young — September 30, 2006, 4:50 am
what process i should follow to begin e-communities in nepal?
kamala chaulagain — November 10, 2006, 7:56 am
Excellent research and approach to looking at developing and integrating a better Internet.
All the best!
AainaA — November 17, 2006, 4:00 am
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