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As has been discussed in this thread, I’d like to know what our staff think about including Social Networking into our forums. Your opinions if you will, please. Thank you.
Umm . . . isn’t IM sort of a springboard to networking? I’ve got one friend that has led me to expand my list exponentially – guess he’s the social-networking-guru (silly new zealander). 😉
As I’ve said, I know very little about the social networking concept, so we’d probably need a staff or two to volunteer to set up the social networking forum. Any thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc. would be welcome.
How would this even work? A forum to talk about Facebook, Myspace and Twitter? I don’t see any target audience there, since those people would use their respective service to discuss anything related..
David, it’s hard to know how or if it would work until we try it. Yes, for people USING MySpace, they would likely just “use MySpace” to discuss issues about MySpace. But there may be value in providing context at a higher level — sort of like meta data on the various social networks.
Covering the social network topic is not without precedent. There is a very popular blog — Mashable — that is dedicated to nothing but coverage of the social network scene. There are also thousands of sites that support MySpace by providing graphics, CSS code and widgets.
Besides, where do you go to learn about Twitter for the first time? Or Jaiku? Or fill-in-the-blank? Unless you hear from a friend… and then even if you do, where do you go for a second, objective opinion (is THIS network worth my time?).
One of the things to consider is what audience we want to go after? The end users or the “movers and shakers” in the industry?
David;224522 wrote:How would this even work? A forum to talk about Facebook, Myspace and Twitter? I don’t see any target audience there, since those people would use their respective service to discuss anything related..WLM users might search the Microsoft websites for help. YM users might search Yahoo. Ditto for AIM, ICQ, Trillian, etc. But I’m sure a lot of them come to our forums for help and whatever, too. That’s why BBB exists.
Nessa;224826 wrote:Heh, I could have sworn I voted in this one long ago. 😮Of course you have, sweetie…:D
I frequently use Myspace, Facebook and occasionally bebo.
Would be happy to help with general queries, writing FAQs, and profile hacks etc 🙂
Think this will go ahead?
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