Today's most popular social networking sites have effectively captured the attention of our younger generation, making social networking one of the most effective communication tools in the last 10 years. The time has come to leverage this power to promote health and fitness to our youth. Fitspott, a social networking platform for health and fitness, will launch the beta version of its site in September.
Interesting new research has emerged from an unlikely source around the use of enterprise social networking. The Times Education Supplement's publisher TSL Education released new research from a larger study snappily titled The Digital Staffroom: How Social Networking and resource sharing are transforming teaching, showing that online collaboration could save 14.3 million teaching hours a year by 2012.
As support and professional-development opportunities for teachers begin to move from conference rooms to chat rooms, a burgeoning number of states and districts are drawing on features from course-management software and popular social-networking sites to establish online networks connecting teachers to peers who may live dozens or even hundreds of miles away.
Delegates at the Canadian Medical Association's 141st Annual General Council will get a sneak-peak at the latest web-based innovation in Canadian health care: a new online social networking community called Asklepios that makes it easier for physicians from coast-to-coast to connect, share best practices, and learn from each other.
Designed and developed by the CMA exclusively for Canadian doctors, Asklepios functions as a secure physician community facilitating contact between experts and peers alike, irrespective of geographic location or practice specialty.
Mikons provide iconic self-expression that connects people through visual symbols and personal tags. Users can create custom vector graphics using the unique Mikons MachineTM and generate a social personality represented by entertaining icons. MikonMixers now brings virtual personalities into event attendees and provide a method to express their online personas in-person. The MikonMixer vision is to promote interaction between people in real life while they attend events, conferences, trade shows, conventions and even private parties.
There are a few phases to social networking. The first phase was Friendster, MySpace and clones and it was pretty frivolous. Everyone connected as a friend. Strangers came together online. The second phase was about who you knew, maintaining and enriching your relationships. It was a way not to lose touch with people as you changed jobs or moved. The latest phase is an online representation of real world activity. Small and midsize businesses were always people who spent money on their Rolodexes and then on database software. They survive and thrive based on the power of personal networks.
The battle to provide social networking in the enterprise is under way between solutions from established software vendors and readily available offerings such as Facebook and LinkedIn, with these sites possessing a lot of momentum, an industry insider stressed during a conference on Friday afternoon.
Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704), a global leader in Internet content security, reported today an increase in the number of employees who admit to visiting social networking sites on the Internet while connected to the corporate network, according to the results of a Trend Micro study that explores corporate computer users' perceptions of and experiences with security threats.
myGreek.org unveiled its online social network today that allows fraternity and sorority members “Greeks,” to connect with other members on their campus and around the world.
Founded by Andrew Dudum, a sophomore at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, myGreek possesses all common features of premier social networking sites, while catering to the specific needs of active Greek members and alumni.
Researching a business trip once involved guidebooks and the advice of a handful of friends and co-workers. But if corporate travel companies have their way, executives will soon be consulting new social networking sites and an endless stream of strangers for the secrets of the road.
