Social Networking

Most virtual worlds tend to take a beating when it comes to negative publicity.  I'm convinced that any legitimate journalist who attempts to gather information on the subculture of virtual communities spends no a lot more than two hours checking out the platform.  It's rare that you ever hear about a virtual world citizen being interviewed by an external media source and thus the exposure is inauthentic and hardly does the community justice and is based on conjecture and surface level obse...

Social networking internet sites where originally intended to be merely on-line communities where people can gather and share interests and opinions. Due to the growing popularity of many social networks they soon caught the eye of the internet marketing community. A social platform with a huge membership base represented fertile grounds for advertising goods and services.Now many entrepreneurs have flooded these social web sites for the purpose of advertising on the web.  The splash they ha...

To block or not to block? Is blocking access to social networks in the workplace really the answer, when a business's capacity to flourish is significantly enhanced by these extremely sites?   As I've noted just before in social networking – friend or foe, investigation into time spent on on the internet activities has found social networks hogging the top spot, and I don't envisage this changing anytime soon. So what does all this time on social networks mean for organization? Well undou...