Posts Tagged ‘myspace’

That Whole Social Networking Thing

If you haven’t figured this all out, the reason the world is going all social networking happy is because this is your means to connect to people directly and get away from the rigid structure of corporate ladders and protocol and hierarchy. It’s a way to extend your audience of friends, colleagues, business partners, and teammates. The whole point of this is to build your new world map… » Continue

June 7 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: facebook, linkedin, myspace, socialmedia, socialnetworks, twitter, wink | 15 comments»

Social Software As Connection Gateways

Why do people bother with MySpace?

I’ll tell you why: people can make connections and communicate and open dialogue. By “adding friends” and building your space, and adding multimedia, and using the tools on there, you can establish connections.

The benefit of using this social sharing sites (Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIN, Upcoming.org, etc, etc, etc) is that you get a different, digital connection to people. Some are people you’ve not… » Continue

January 1 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: community, flickr, myspace, socialsoftware, twitter, youtube | 2 comments»

Flickr as a Hiring Platform

I’ve done it once and I plan to do it again.

I use Flickr to hire people for my projects. I needed some website art for a project I’m doing, and though I am capable of doing my own art, I realized that there were people who were far more talented than me. So, I looked around my 50 or so Flickr contacts and picked Sonya to do the… » Continue

August 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: digg, flickr, myspace, networking, socialnetwork, socialsoftware, web2.0 | 1 comment»