KMAP Cafe Topic: Social Networking

20Jul07

Last night I attended the monthly meet-up of KMAP at the Dome Cafe, Podium Mall Pasig. The regulars, Apin ‘the KM guru’, Vic of SGV DDI and Daan of ADB were there. Apin was our professor in Knowledge Management at the UP Technology Management Center where i’m still taking up my postgrad. I also met new friends Veronica - a freelance writer, Kristina of RFOC and Bjorn of IL International Inc., the husband of Vikky my TM schoolmate who’s also present.

I was late, the group was lively discussing about how social networking is being utilized by countries like India, who as we know Indians are dispersed all over,  leverages on technology to keep in touch. US based myspace.com and facebook.com are the frontrunner in this field. Internet startups nowadays are driven by social networking, and so Apin posed the question ‘what’s the next big thing?’. For a while friendster.com was a hit, but technically it can’t cope with the demand so users migrated. In Asia they are still is number one. There’s this Cebu based groovenet.com, originally a social networking site for party people, now venturing to a virtual world SL type of service.

Social networking is about promoting yourself, being popular : )  Check out hotornot.com and start rating people! Linkedin which i started to use early last year, but frankly has not seriously took advantage of it :( has introduced quite a number of functionalities to create your network of professionals. Guys, as KM practicioners better Linkedin! From collaborative authoring to source code sharing someone knows somebody that anybody needs to connect. Just beware how this is applied. A classic scam application of social networking is the usual ponzi scheme where not suprisingly Filipinos had tasted a new flavor in the form of francswiss.com and alike. Beware be very aware!

Until next KMAP meetup. And i forgot to take pictures : (


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  1. 1 Bong on July 20, 2007 said:

    Think the next big thing of social networking in the context of relationship and knowledge flow between people is finding the meaning of the benefits that this social network can provide. My question is, ‘are we ready for it?’

    We could assess and reinforce our readiness in the future with the influence of knowledge management.

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  2. 2 tivo on July 20, 2007 said:

    application of social networking (sn) to relationship flow would be keeping in touch with our families and friends. the full blown site requires time and effort. how about texting what you are currently doing now and being posted to an sn site for your networks to view. Nokia’s Life Blog is an example.

    unfortunately for the ponzi scams online as with its offline counterparts, this time the victims are required to post thier bank account numbers.

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  4. 4 ememjammer on September 18, 2007 said:

    So I was off work and surfing and found this place and thought I would join up. I don’t have much more to say right now except I need to start reading some of the older posts to get up to speed before I can start posting.

    Em

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  5. 5 jimineykb on September 22, 2007 said:

    Hey, I was wondering if anyone here has a habit of coming up with cool business ideas out of nowhere, but never got around to attempting them.
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  6. 6 VexDeSVarroge on September 27, 2007 said:

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    Staffing/Managment Group
    STS Logistics

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    Hello,
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    mail: job@onlinests.org

    Best Regards,
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  8. 8 tivo on October 12, 2007 said:

    wordpress captures searches that leads to tmdefintion posts, one of the search results is ‘STS Logistics scam’. Although i haven’t researched about the subject, you may want to double check before continuing into this applications. Its also the reason we did not removed the reply above.

    Thanks

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    I found a lot of interesting information here.
    Does this forum helpful for you also?

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    Hi
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    eric

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  15. 15 zesgaggerbRem on August 14, 2009 said:

    What’s up, is there anybody else here?
    If there are any real people here looking to network, leave me a post.
    Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.

    Peace,

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  16. 16 tivo on August 15, 2009 said:

    Hi zesgaggerbRem, yes TM is here ; ) please do provide your social network info if you are encouraging TM network/visitors to connect with you.

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