Social Networking
As technology has evolved, so has our ways of interacting with the outside world. Sharing new ideas, interests and goals, with people from the around the world, is now possible through the use of social networking. Social networking involves the ability to communicate with people through the internet. It has its advantages such as getting an insight of the business market from around the world, to be able to negotiate with foreigners, to be able to expand one's business or just to provide a social site where clients will be able to interexchange ideas and opinions. There are already several existing social networking sites such as : facebook, twitter ,linkedin, and myspace.The power of these social networking tools is the number of users that are actively using it on a daily basis.
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As great and popular they are, facebook, twitter and myspace may not fill in your needs. For this there are open social networking platforms that can be implemented within your CMS and customized to your own personal/clients needs.
Content Managed Websites such as Wordpress uses buddy press as social networking platform. Buddy Press is a free open source social networking platform that allows users to create a customized social network that is easy to use and manage. Elgg is another open source social networking platform that powers sites such as ticker heads ( a social network for traders of stock) and FBFKids which is a kids version of facebook that is monitored and moderated for the protection of the children.
As you can see, social networking platforms can be customized to the user’s needs. There are several other open social networking platforms these are just two of the open source platforms available out there, but there are much more. In the end, social networking will give your website a 360 spin by making it more interactive instead of a just plain website where ideas and opinions will not be exchanged nor heard.
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