CHAPTER 7 : VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES TO SOCIAL NETWORKS
Virtual community is a gathering place for people and business that does not have a physical exercise .
Early web communities
1 . 1985- WELL ( "whole earth " lectronic link")
- 1995 - Beverly Hills Internet Virtual Community site
3 . 1995 - Tripod virtual community
- 1995 - Theglobe.com Cornell University class project
Social Networking Emerges
1997- Six degrees
1998
1999- QQ
2000
2001
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2002 - Friendster
2003
Tribet.net
Myspace
Linkedlin
Orkut
2004 - Mixi
Gree
2005- Renren
Ozone
Youtube
2006- Mobage-town
Odnoklassniki
2007- VKontakle
2008
2009- Sina Web
WebQQ
2010- Stority
2011- Google+
Social Networking sites :
Web Logs (Blogs)
Microblogs
Participatory journalisme
Location - aware mobile social networks
Business uses of networking
Social media in business is still evolving and there aremany opinions on what companies should and should not do with social networking tools.
Social media engagement can provides much more information about customer and potenial customer
Comapnies can interact with their customer (for supplier ) in ways that are different from and more expensive than the roles traditionally taken in buyer- seller relationship
Virtual Learning Networks
Social Shopping sites
Idea - based social Networking
Open -source software
Revenue models for social networking sites
Adversiting - supported social networking sites
Mixed- revenue and fee-for-services social network sites
Fee-based social networking
Microlending sites
Crowdfunding sites