[Web4lib] Business/Professional/Customer Social Networks?

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

>Next month I will give an invited presentation at the CALSI 2009 conference /workshop in Valencia, Spain<

 

"Connections: Online Social Networks for Business"

 

Gerry McKiernan / Iowa State University Library / Ames IA USA

 

CALSI 2009: 

 

La Sociedad del Conocimiento: Innovación y Nuevos Retos Globales 

 

March 10 2009 / 11:30-12:30 

 

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

 

While Facebook and MySpace are among the better-known general online social networks, there are an ever-increasing number of online networks that have emerged for and within a wide variety of groups. Among many others, these include networks for academe and education (e.g., EduSpaces), people of color (e.g., Black Planet), Boomers (e.g., Boomj), LGBT groups (e.g., GLEE), religion (e.g., MyChurch), and researchers and scholars (e.g., Nature Network). Among the fastest growing niche networks are those created by and on behalf of businesses (e.g., LinkedIn).

 

This presentation will provide an overview of the variety of niche online networks, with a focus on those created to better connect and engage customers, employees, and professionals.

 

I am greatly interested of  learning of any and all Business/Professional/Customer Social Networks

 

BTW: I am aware of the major business/professional sites listed in Wikipedia

 

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites ]

 

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[ http://tinyurl.com/ccgrwy ]

 

The posting also includes appropriate conference links ...

 

Thanks !

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu    

 

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