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Online Communities
Your following to followers ratio on Twitters
04.23.08 | Permalink | 0 Comments

This is more out of sheer curiousity than it is anything else at the moment. But since I’m starting to use Twitter, I was calculated the number of people who follow me versus the number of people that I’m following on my Twitter. I’m currently following 48 people versus 57 people who are following me. [...]
Online Communities
You Know You’re Hooked On Facebook When….
09.26.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

This is the current login message. But this is what it should really say; Why? Read on. You know Facebook is getting out of hand when people do all sorts of stuff on it that they usually would not do elsewhere. Think real life. I have a friend who recently updated her status to let [...]
Community Building, Online Communities
What Town Centers Can Teach You About Online Community Building
08.01.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

This a map of the new Rockville Town Center. It’s about 10 minutes away from my home. Ever since its grand opening a few months ago, it has been booming with people and become its own little community here in Rockville, Maryland. Everything that you ever wanted to learn about online communities can be traced [...]
Online Communities
Online Business Networking Best Practices For Xing
07.16.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

Having been on Xing for awhile, I am exposed to various types of networking strategies that people use to find new contacts and further their business goals. I see all sorts of strategies that people use. Some have failed and some have succeeded. Most people are somewhere in between and the above scenario happens to [...]
Online Communities, The People Business
It’s About The Relationship, Stupid.
07.16.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

Scoble talks about Why Facebook is the “it” social networking platform right now. I completely agree and it’s what I’ve been thinking especially when he compares it to LinkedIN. He articulates it better than I can. He says; To tell you the truth, the reason Facebook is the better networking tool is BECAUSE itâ€™s personal. [...]
Online Communities, social networking sites
One critical reason why Xing can’t grow as fast as it should.
11.30.06 | Permalink | 0 Comments

I was doing a search on Technorati for Xing.com news and I realized something. Most of the blog entries are in German– perhaps 80% or more was in German. It was hard to find anything in English. And it occured to me as to one reason why Xing won’t be able to reach as many [...]
Community Building, Online Communities
Online communities; Know who your stakeholders are
11.29.06 | Permalink | 0 Comments

I’ve been moderating forums for the past couple years. Most of them have been successful ventures. But this would depend on how you define success? As of this writing, I run two different online forums at Xing.com- a social networking site for business professionals . I run a forum for Entrepreneurs and another for marketing [...]
Online Communities
LinkedIN executive makes a bad PR move with a blog comment.
11.25.06 | Permalink | 0 Comments

Carsten Cumbrowski recently blogged about how he thought the new Xing.com [formerly openBC] may end up thrashing LinkedIN.com in the European market. It was a decent analysis but did have some flaws in it. That really isn’t the issue here. The major issue was what I saw in the comments section of the blog entry. [...]
Online Communities, web design
Deconstructing the redesign of openBC to Xing.com
11.22.06 | Permalink | 0 Comments

The moment that all 1.5 million members on openBC have waited for is finally here– the redesign and rebranding to Xing.com. The redesign went live on Saturday as to allow the developers time to fix any bugs that were still occuring. Alot has been said about the new redesign in various forums, especially within the [...]