http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/ User submitted comments to Practical Ecommerce's article entitled Field Test: Social Networking, Part 1 of 3 en-us Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:01 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/rss/ Practical Ecommerce v2.0.1 Ecommerce kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com bgetting@practicalecommerce.com 60 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6921 Open social is the future, victorantos.com Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:01 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6921 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6876 I have used Multiply for Social Networking since 1 December 2007 and have received a great deal of traffic from it. Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:51:57 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6876 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6784 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. Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:34:17 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6784 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6759 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. Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:15:00 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6759 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6738 ** 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 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:26:38 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6738 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6737 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. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:30:45 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6737 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6720 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! Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:14:55 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6720 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6717 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. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:14:15 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/679/Field-Test-Social-Networking-Part-1-of-3/#comment6717