2008-02-29T16:00:01-07:00 Practical Ecommerce info@practicalecommerce.com http://www.practicalecommerce.com/ Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing DBA Practical Ecommerce http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6921 2008-02-29T16:00:01-07:00

Open social is the future, victorantos.com

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6876 2008-02-24T00:51:57-07:00

I have used Multiply for Social Networking since 1 December 2007 and have received a great deal of traffic from it.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6784 2008-02-20T14:34:17-07:00

Social networking blurs the line between "friend" and "customer". If you are out there pushing yourself too hard, just like with friends, people will ignore you. The weirdest part of social networking is how the work "you" and the outside work "you" relate in the social space. If you are doing business with someone, not only can you see their LinkedIn profile and website, you can see their Facebook page, their MySpace page, their Twitter account, etc etc. So it's a good idea not to post your drunken tirades from college anywhere, basically ;). Hopefully social networking sites will help customers and companies connect and relate to each other so that everyone ends up being happy.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6759 2008-02-20T09:15:00-07:00

you should procede with caution if you are trying to "game" SN sites just to try to make jack. networking on the web is not very different then netorking in the real world...you get out what you put in.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6738 2008-02-19T18:26:38-07:00

** Mr. Dog That one would be my fault, I apologize. That was simply a typo that occurred, and the article has been updated. Thanks for pointing that out. Also, I'd love to not get fired, if at all possible... :) Brian Getting Online Director

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6737 2008-02-19T17:30:45-07:00

It's quite suspect that field tester 1 and field tester 3 had verbatim answers to two separate questions. Fire the editor of this article.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6720 2008-02-19T12:14:55-07:00

When the Internet first started, people weren't seeing results there either... but they learned how it functioned, began working with it, and successes were born. Social Networking is much the same. Hundreds of Millions of people are in these sites. If the theory is that we want to fish where the fish are, it makes perfect sense to figure out HOW to market here and then to do it. I'm teaching all our Member Theaters to use Social Networking sites. And in a year or two, I believe all of us will look back and say, "I'm glad I got involved when it was easy to do so!" Charlie Seymour Jr Founder / CEO StageMagazineOnline.com Where Theater Lives Online!

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6717 2008-02-19T10:14:15-07:00

The panel seems to be in the "lets see what happens here" stage, The web can be out ahead of itself at times, and this might be a case in point. There are these tremendous numbers of users on these sites and we are all trying to figure out how to sort them out and catch their attention. The social networking "animal" is sort of a "enigma wrapped in a riddle"-- a yet undefined and untamed creature.