At Ignite DC 6, Joseph Price spoke about the mundane postings we’ve all become conditioned to seeing on Facebook and other social networking sites. He dared to ask “Why are you doing this?”
Ignite DC is taking speaker submissions until April 25. What would you tell a rambunctious, socially lubricated crowd if you had just five minutes and 20 slides to capture your story?
It’s also not too soon to purchase tickets for the June 2 event being held in DC.
I love my MOO mini-cards, but as soon as I order a set, buyer’s remorse kicks in. I wish I had included more or less or different contact info.
A blogging buddy of mine introduced me to Contxts, a free service that ensures you’re never without your business cards again. After signing up for an account, there are two ways to share your info.
From your phone, you txt “send 3034759204” to 50500
You can tell the service to text your info to a particular phone number (area code + number) OR
Your contact txts “username” to 50500 on their phone
Your new contact can make a text request for your info using your username.
You can test it out be texting the “DANIEL” to the number 50500. Within moments, you should receive creator Daniel’s contact info.
Each contact that requests your info is added to your own “virtual rolodex” as they sign up for their own account at Contxt.
You can update the profile that is texted to interested parties at anytime. You can include as much or as little information as you want, as long as it stays under 140 characters.
It might even be worth having two accounts, once for personal info and a second for your business info.
What are you waiting for, go sign up!
There are a ridiculous number of social networking sites. Picking and choosing the best ones for you can seem daunting. Here’s a Current TV animated video covering the “Social Networking Wars,” reminding us that site popularity is a fickle beast.
H/T AJ
Bill Tancer’s Time magazine column “FaceBook: More Popular Than Porn” highlights the rise in popularity of social networks and the decline of porn amongst Gen Y. All the online chatter is keeping young people engaged in interpersonal intercourse (the dialogue, not the sexual variety).
Visits to porn sites have dropped from 16.9% of all site visits in the U.S. in October 2005 to 11.9% as of last week, a 33% decline. Currently, for web users over the age of 25, Adult Entertainment still ranks high in popularity, coming in second, after search engines. Not so for 18- to 24-year-olds, for whom social networks rank first, followed by search engines, then web-based e-mail — with porn sites lagging behind in fourth. If you chart the rate of visits to social-networking sites against those to adult sites over the last two years, there appears to be a strong negative correlation (i.e., visits to social networks go up as visits to adult sites go down).
Playboy Enterprises might have jumped on the online community train at just the right time. This summer, Playboy partnered with build-an-online-community-yourself Ning and to launch PlayboyU, which is a branded site for college students. Exclusively available to college students with a .edu address, Playboy U is an “non-nude social network” that doesn’t seem all that different from what MySpace or FaceBook offers: profiles, blogs, events calendars, groups, forums, quizzes. The one nifty feature is a set of dedicated profile pages for individual univerisities.
Given the greater frequency with which hiring managers check out perspective employees on social networking sites, perhaps a community like PlayboyU will allow college students to act up behind a curtain of privacy. No authorities are getting invites..though I’m sure a few questionable professors or teaching assistants will squeeze on through with their .edu addresses.
Playboy does take advantage of the advertising opportunities with Playboy news and calendar items to keep Playboy’s brand name front and center. Will this site prove to be a gateway to increased Playboy branded spending by site users or just maintain brand awareness?
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