Social Network services are not that. Social media gives people the impression that they are getting stuff done – but they are not.  Yet so many social media services sell advertising.  Each of these things impacts people’s activities, and therefore, much of the crap that people share on social network services. We are in the middle of creating a different type of social network in Social Flights. The Last Mile of Social Media. We call the The Last Mile of Social Media – empowering neighborhoods not Hollywoods. MORE >>

Of the top 10 most trafficked social networking sites, LinkedIn is a bit of an anomaly. Its Its success is not dependent on status updates, games or rich media content, but on connecting individuals around professional interests and capabilities. Compare that to the new social media darling, Pinterest.com. With numbers like these you can’t help but wonder how LinkedIn will compete for mindshare when interest-based social networks are cropping up everywhere and stealing bigger pieces of the consumer engagement pie? This is a guest post by Kevin Green. MORE >>

Gauravonomics Blog For Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists How To Organize and Energize Your Evangelists Blog Speaking Writing Bio Media Subscribe Slideshare Twitter LinkedIn Facebook IdeaSliver Labs Tumblr « Why the Japanese Prefer Visual Thinking How to Scale Real-time Plus Face-time » Social Networks and Communities Can Be Content-Centric or People-Centric Welcome to the Gauravonomics Blog for Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists ! Gautam Ghosh has written an interesting post on how social media can be about content or community. MORE >>

Having lived through the rise and fall of FriendFeed , the slow rise and then rapid quickening of Twitter , and the "not quite right for this world" debut and subsequent dismissal of Buzz , I practically feel like a grizzled old social networking veteran. But barring these systems, people need to understand that you just might find content that isn't what you're looking for, and you should just keep going - even in new-fangled systems like Google+, where circling people according to the content they share, or the content you want to share them, is a major defining feature. MORE >>

Have you ever wondered what compels people to share content on their social networks? Two social accounts cross in the night , and a re-tweet or Like is born – why is that? Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In other words, the bandwidth for content consumption is fixed. That distress probably keeps users risk-averse when it comes to provocative content. What Compels People to Share Your Content? MORE >>