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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an industry analyst. By creating this digest (I started this over a year ago) it really helps me to stay on top of the space I cover.<\/p>\n
I’ve created a new category called Digest (view archives)<\/a>. Start with the Web Strategy Summary, then quickly scan the succinct and categorized headlines, read text for my take, and click link to dive in for more. <\/p>\n Subscribe to this blog in your feedreader<\/a>, or use the email subscription box in the right column. Or you can subscribe to this digest <\/em>tag<\/a> only and not receive my other posts.<\/p>\n Web Strategy Summary<\/strong> Usage: Surge in Chinese internet users.<\/strong> Research: Forrester “Waves” Community Platforms<\/strong> Deals: Neighborhood American showcases wins<\/strong> Tech: Future of Social Dashboards, Diso<\/strong> Data: Will Facebook US members overtake MySpace<\/strong> Future: 8 Predictions for Enterprise 2.0<\/strong> Predictions: Hivelive suggests what’s upcoming for communities<\/strong> Launch: Cisco puts forth a community platform “Eos”<\/strong> Interview: Jive’s CMO on FastCompany TV<\/strong> Contest: Sony community needs a name<\/strong> Launch: Awareness launches Sony Blog<\/strong> Vocab: Buzzword Leaderboard<\/strong> If you’re a social network, or widget company, I want to know of your news, send me an email, or leave a comment below. Help me stay up to date. <\/p>\n Hungry For Social Networking Stats? <\/strong>Then you should see my collection of Social Networks Stats for 2008<\/a> and 2009<\/a>. Bookmark them, then share it with others as I continue to update it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an industry analyst. By creating this digest (I started this over a year ago) it really helps me to stay on top of the space I … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 15, 2009<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digest","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUsage of social media will continue to rise, the growth of China’s internet population bodes to growth off shores. Forrester has launched a Wave report over community platforms. “Diso” a technology that suggests social will be aggregated to one page will occur, and several make predictions for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n
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\nAlthough the Chinese internet population is greater than the entire US citizenship, a sharp increase in usage is reported<\/a>, primarily from mobile.<\/p>\n
\nI lead this research, where we’ve segmented the leaders in the community platform space<\/a>. I know some folks are subscribed to this digest and not my blog, so excuse me if you’ve already heard.<\/p>\n
\nCommunity platform Neighborhood America showcases several client wins including Kodak, City of New Orleans, and Wharton Business school in their latest newsletter<\/a>, you can subscribe on the website.<\/p>\n
\nMarc Canter has frequently been the guiding light for open data and suggests that the future dashboard of all things could be a technology called Diso, RWW has more info<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nTechncrunch highlights recent Comscore data and suggests that Facebook’s US members 54mm members will overtake MySpace in 2010, 76mm, one year from now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nDion writes like an analyst and breaks down his predictions for 2009 revolving around social computing within the enterprise<\/a>. He highlights that community will be one of the priorities within the enterprise.<\/p>\n
\nHivelive, a Colorado community platform boasts a very flexible component based system so don’t be surprised about their predictions for the new year<\/a>. Overall, I agree, specific use cases for community are going to be needed.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve profiled this launch (and the Cisco team has responded) read this post for details.<\/a> Surprisingly, other than a few press releases and blog posts, we’ve not seen much more from this highly secretive project.<\/p>\n
\nThought leader and executive of 4 years, Sam Lawrence the CMO of Jive Software<\/a> spends time with Scoble on Fast Company TV.<\/p>\n
\nAn interesting way to drive community interaction and interest, Sony encourages it’s members to help name it’s own community<\/a>. This community is run by Powered<\/a>, who I had a briefing with yesterday, that specializes in content and editorial, in addition to just a platform. (edit: This is actually an Awareness community, but Powered does run these Sony communities backstage101<\/a>, darkroom<\/a>, and frontline<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\nA different division of Sony has launched a community during CES that’s run by Awareness Networks, see the Sony Electronics Blog<\/a>. Just goes to show that multiple vendors are often within one brand.<\/p>\n
\nThe good folks at Royal Pingdom have helped to create this index of web buzzwords and terms, what’s really interesting is they’ve rated which terms are peaking<\/a> –marketers responsible for messaging should take note.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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