Social Networking for Fun and Fun-draising(?)
January 9th, 2008 by Susan Low SaadatWhat is social networking?
According to Wikipedia, “a social network service focuses on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the use of software.
Most social network services are primarily web based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups, and so on.
The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with MySpace, Bebo and Facebook being the most widely used in the anglosphere and Friendster being the most widely used in Asia.[1][2][3]
There have been some attempts to standardize them (see the FOAF standard) but this has led to some privacy concerns.”
What does social networking have to do with fundraising?
Apparently, in some cases, and under some circumstances, quite a bit. Tech Soup is offering a free teleconference on social networking for fundraising tomorrow at 1pm. If you’ve got the time, it may be worth checking out. You can register here.
Also look for an article by Idealware’s Brett Bonfield on the subject of social networking at Tech Soup here. :
Cheers!
Susan
