Personal Social Networking - Building A Conversation: Where are You Now?

April 17, 2008

Where are You Now?

Now it's travel - any interest you have, the more reasons there are to form a social network. Just think as these special networks move to open networking all the networking profiles you build the more integration strategy you will need. But that's the subject for this blog - I do all the strategy discussions in my Business Reputation blog - so if your starting to wonder how to make all these networks work for you stop in there.

There’s the travel social network WAYN (Where Are You Now?), with 11.4 million members but only a small crowd in the US so far. Their service resembles free social networking tools like Dopplr and Twitter but specifically targets travelers. Users keep their travel profiles updated

with photos, experiences, and location so that friends at home can track their progress and so they can meet up or trade tips with fellow WAYN traveling similar routes. WAYN currently has 11 employees in London and 35 developers in Poland. It took in $11 million in funding in 2006 from investors including Brent Hoberman who is also the founder of ticket site Lastminute.com.

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What's all the talk of social networking all about? I believe it was once about searching for information. Instead, what people are really doing is setting out on a quest to make sense of all the information that they find.

That’s the goal of most visits to Google or Yahoo! or blogs or the Wikipedia. How do you make sense of the noise that’s coming at us from all directions? You won’t take action—you won’t buy something, book something, hire someone, or take a position on a political issue—until you’ve made sense of your options.

One of the most reliable ways to make sense of the world is to engage an expert you trust in open and free conversation. Correspondingly, that someone who performs the same such task through their own process. Hence, you want to network to them - SOCIAL NETWORKING makes sense.