Social NetworkingE-Business Presentation

Faculty of Information and Communication TechnologySilpakorn University

anusorn kansapdonuzz@gmail.com

Time's Person of the Year: You

• Time’s Person of the Year 2006 is YOU.

• Yes, you. You control the Information Age

• Not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

Social Networking

• Communities of people who share interests and activities

• Social networks connect people at low cost

Social NetworkingMost social network services such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups, and so on.

Social Networking

Social Networking; myspace

• self-publishing within your network of friends and colleagues.

• what to listen to, what to watch, what's groovy

Social Networking; YouTube

• The people's television network

• It is being acquired by Google for a mere 1.65 billion dollars in stock

Social Networking; del.icio.us

• Social Bookmaking

• provide interesting and usually high quality web links (which users voted for)

• a real-time record of who is interested in what right now

Social Networking; Wikipedia

• arguably the best encyclopedia in the world

• 1.5 million user-contributed articles.

Social Networking; P2P

• Share your computer power with everyone else in order to deliver their service

• Peer to Peer

Social Networking; eBay

• This is not normally thought of as having a social network element

• 1 million people worldwide make a living from eBay

Social Networking; SecondLife

• 3-D virtual world

• makes money by selling virtual real-estate for hard cash

• Several major companies have set up shop in SecondLife

Social Networking; SecondLife

Social Networking; World WarCraft

• Hugely popular Internet-based multi-player game

• Most successful of several virtual worlds that the Internet has spawned

• very powerful (and commercially successful) social network

Social Networking; World WarCraft

Social Networking; freecycle

• This is a goods recycling service that enable people to give away possessions that they no longer want and need.

Social Networking and Your Business

• Social networking sites have become big business

• can, your business take advantage of these social type site

?

Social Networking and Your Business

First;• Know your target market• Linkedin.com and MerchantCircle.com are great places

to start• Find some groups within the big sites that are directly

related to your product or service

Social Networking and Your Business

Second;• get involved• understand how these sites function• Promote yourself, then your business.• Make friends

Social Networking and Your Business

Third;• Link your social profiles with your main company website• Create a network between our various online• continue looking for new avenues to market your

products or services

Blog for Business

“Blogs are good for business”Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said.

Blog for Business

Bill Gates backs blogs for businesses;

• Blogs had advantages over other, older ways of communicating such as e-mail and websites

• More than 700 Microsoft employees are already using blogs to keep people up to date with their projects