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Hear expert business advice from Tom Smith, Research Manager, EMEA, at Universal McCann, as he reveals how one should approach the development a strategy that will encourage usage within Social Networks:
“There are so many ways you can work with social networks but increasingly it’s not just about advertising it’s about having a presence in the place is where consumers interact and doing that in a way that feels credible and relevant.
So whether you can create a page of inner social network and be there but actually giving people a reason to be involved sort of as creating content that you share on your page and get users to interact with or you create applications that users can load on to their social network pages creates a genuine usage for them and makes their page more interesting or makes their life easier online.
There are some good examples like Intel created a page on MySpace that was a collaborative music project. So people could who were pitching for a place in a band could create a super group out of the best entrants. So it’s kind of rather than just being an advert on a social network it’s actually kind of acting how you want to be seen and kind of creating stuff and getting people involved. So acting how you want to be perceived rather than just talking about it.
I think business should really jump on this idea and involve their users and open themselves up to getting more people involved and have done very well.
We looked at Facebook, and they have actively got their users to collaborate with them to translate the website into hundreds of local languages around the world, you know that was done by charge by the users.
Another good example is a video rental company in the US called Netflix which were trying to improve their recommendation system that recommends new films that you should borrow and they opened it up to the general public and developers and put a million dollar prize on it and said come and create a better recommendation system for us.
So it was about collaborating with the wider community and being open with them. They shared all their data and they are going to get a better system out of it by being open and being active and being involved with the wider world.”

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Americans are getting most of their news on their cell phones and via Social Networks, while those over 50 are the ones left reading the print versions of newspapers. The Internet has finally surpassed newspapers in popularity among Americans

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.

Loneliness has been linked to depression and other health problems. Now, a study says it can also spread. A friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. And a friend of that friend was twenty-five percent more likely to do the same.

Earlier findings showed that happiness, obesity and the ability to stop smoking can also spread like infections within social groups.

The findings all come from a major health study in the American town of Framingham, Massachusetts.

The study began in nineteen forty-eight to investigate the causes of heart disease.

Since then, more tests have been added, including measures of loneliness and depression.

The new findings involved more than five thousand people in the second generation of the Framingham Heart Study. The researchers examined friendship histories and reports of loneliness. The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends.

For example, loneliness can affect relationships between next-door neighbors. The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together. The study also found that loneliness spreads more easily among women than men.

Researchers from the University of Chicago, Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, did the study. The findings appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

The average person is said to experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year.

The study found that having a lonely friend can add about seventeen days. But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

Lonely people become less and less trusting of others. This makes it more and more difficult for them to make friends — and more likely that society will reject them.

John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago led the study. He says it is important to recognize and deal with loneliness. He says people who have been pushed to the edges of society should receive help to repair their Social Networks.

The aim should be to aggressively create what he calls a “protective barrier” against loneliness.

This barrier, he says, can keep the whole network from coming apart.

And that’s the VOA Special English Health Report. You can find transcripts and MP3s of all of our reports at voaspecialenglish.com. You can also post your comments and read what others are saying. And you can find us on YouTube and Twitter at VOA Learning English.

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This is the IBM Stop Talking.Start Doing TV Commercials about social networking.

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Top business advice from Penny Power, Founder of business social network Ecademy. Join her in this show as she talks about how social networking has changed the way that people are networking.
Join Penny Power as she explains the difference between Mile Deep and Mile Wide networking. There is a need to strike a balance between gathering a large number of contacts and working to deepen your relationships. To find out how to ensure you have the right combination for your business – watch this show now!
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In this business tv show, Stefan Tornquist, Research Director at Marketing Sherpa, talks about how being connected to one or more Social Networks could help you to win big:

“[Another] interesting thing is this land rush in social networking. I think recently I read that over 200,000 networks have started in the last year so this is really starting to mimic the Blogging explosion of several years ago and you know I don’t know quite yet if its going to be, I know that its not going to have been worth it for most of those social network creators right because like blogs there are simply too many blog streams, there are too many social networks to, not to join but to be an active member of so like blogs I think most of these are going to go fallow but that doesn’t mean that there’s not an opportunity here because some of them aren’t and I think the currency in, currency in a few years online will be engagement, it already is in many respects and we’re trying to do a better job of measuring what engagement is and if you think about how people engage with social networks there’s an awful lot of, there’s an awful lot of equity built up between the social network and the user.
So if you’re the kind of company that can do a good job developing a small social network for your customers and one that really provides value, it cant simply be become a member of our social network and we’ll let you know when there’s a new product available and its not going to work all that well but if its something that’s compelling enough, complex enough for people to talk about problems and solutions and show how good they are at solving problems, being creative, then there’s the opportunity for a really fertile social network.”

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Why just log on when you can Blastoff? Blastoff Network is your launch pad to the internet which can be customized with your favorite news, music, videos, blogs, Social Networks and shopping, all in one place! Blastoff Network also pays you when you shop online – were not kidding! Shop from over 300 retailers like Target, Macys, Best Buy or Starbucks.com like you normally do, and get paid cash back just for being a Blastoff Network Member. And when you launch your Network by inviting your friends, youll really get paid! So sign up, save money, have fun and make money!

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Channel 4 news piece 28/2/07

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Deepak Bansal, one of the most experienced and successful Internet Marketing Consultant, was interviewed by National TV, India. He has proven to be world wide leader in the domain of internet marketing at a young age of 24. His Company “Clearpath Technology” with a team of over 225 professionals, handling over 2000 websites, is the biggest ever company in the domain of internet marketing, search engine optimization and web development.

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At Apple’s WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Sam Altman, CEO of Loopt, previews a new application for the iPhone that uses location-based services. The new app blends Social Networks with the Maps application, so you can see where your friends are. You can also go to their journals to see what they’ve been doing today, what pictures they’ve added, and so on. This app will also be free.

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