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If something like a Social Style Guide for Facebook exists – I haven’t seen it. It would serve some of my Friends, some of whom will be deprived from my friendship in the shortest possible future imaginable. I would have thought that some of the most basic forms of social etiquette also applied to the way we interact online.
Obviously, it’s not that clear…
I will be the first one to admit that my social network conduct may not always been top-notch either. As you remember, as recent as last week I was tarred and feathered as a spammer by one of my Facebook ‘Friends’ who clearly objected to receiving a link-carrying message from me.
The Facebook Team berated me previously for sending too many Friend Requests in one go, also accusing me of either being an automated ‘thing’ that spat out requests at random, or someone who was just looking to bump-up his Friend List by sending invites to any soul who happen to pass by at the time.
So much for being organised and working from list to do exactly what Facebook didn’t want me to do: sending too many invites in a too short space of time.
In Facebook’s world being too efficient can make one look suspicious.
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What is the one thing an online community builder shouldn’t do? To complicate entry processes. It sounds obvious – it’s something retailers and hoteliers have known for centuries – but the venom sits in the word ‘complicate’. The trade-offs that must be made are complex by themselves..
I raise this topic to share with you some of the experiences I’ve gained over the last couple of months in building, developing and promoting GBLCG.com. The one all-encompassing objective I worked towards was to make this site an attractive and preferred destination for Facebook Friends who want to exchange and share information that can help them advance their personal and professional objectives.
Because I work best when I can measure my performance against targets I plotted graphed the ‘where I want to be’s’ on an A3-sized sheet and stuck that above my desk. Each week I took stock of my membership and plotted results manually against a target growth line. To my surprise, the lines kept pace, which made me think that I under-rated my targets.
I solved that last weekend by posting a much more challenging graph, which now shows that I am actually under-performing in the Membership Gaining stakes.
...by Published on 09-06-2011 08:59 AM Number of Views: 873- Categories:
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For long I believed in the concept of Open Source – the power of like-minded and same-focus communities to create and develop ‘New’.
Partially, it was this belief that drove me to establish GBLCG.com as a platform where a global community could ideate not just new futures but better ones.
Now that GBLCG.com has reached a level of technical maturity it’s time for me to put my thoughts into action. And I am going to be bold about it…
I am going to give three people the opportunity to host their ‘own’ forum spaces here at GBLCG.com – for free.
To me, that’s a bit like giving your first-born away. I’ll be taking a huge leap of faith in three persons who I believe have what it take to move GBLCG.com forward. As such, I will carefully select those three, although I have only vague ideas at this stage on how to do this.
I envisage that candidates must post their ideas on the topic(s) they want to run in their GBLCG.com forum space. Winners will be chosen based on the number of ‘Likes’ they received, the number of page views they generated and based on my own verdict.
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Although LinkedIn was the first ‘professional social network’ we worked with individually we never established a specific GBLCG.com Group like so many of our industry colleagues.
Currently, the jury is still out on whether we should still take that step. Proponents among us say that this will increase our ability to amass membership for GBLCG.com, whereas opponents feel that opening and managing group discussions at LinkedIn may detract us from managing debates held here at GBLCG.com, which is one of our prime objectives.
Meanwhile, we established individual accounts to monitor discussions and debates held among LinkedIn members in other groups. This enabled us to identify what was on LinkedIn member’s minds, which problems, challenges and issues they tried to tackle, and how members connected to each other.
Interestingly, we learnt from LinkedIn what we didn’t want to be – how we, as a community – wanted to remain different. Now, we have very clear and shared views on this.
LinkedIn also enables us to keep track of what’s going on in this job search and recruitment network. As with our BranchOut and BeKnown presence, we aim to leverage LinkedIn network’s membership to accelerate the development of new connections with other LinkedIn account holders.
As LinkedIn allows us to view the resume’s of other members the application helps us to find and select high-quality membership for GBLCG.com.
View Raymond den Otter’s LinedIn Page now.
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Our GBLCG.com LikeList Page enables you to expand your Facebook Friend networks by leveraging YouTube’s treasure trove.
Although the page is a third-party application and operates outside Facebook’s domain it is intrinsically and securely linked to Facebook’s platform. Updates to GBLCG.com’s LikeList Page are automatically forwarded to Facebook where they appear as Wall Posts. Wall Posts only appear on the Facebook Wall of the person who published a new entry on the LikeList Page.
In many respects, the GBLCG.com LikeList Page acts and behaves like Facebook. Posts can be uploaded by anyone, which others can comment on and ‘Like’. Both comments and ‘Like’ notifications are posted immediately on Facebook, enticing other Friends to respond to a LikeList entry. This allows the person who published a LikeList Page post to continue separate conversations on the post – one at Facebook and one on the LikeList Page.
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Hi - and welcome to GBLCG.com..
As you can see, this site is under development. We’re working almost 24/7 to bring it to you as an online forum where far-thinking, creative and ‘ideating’ entrepreneurs gather.
It will be a site unlike most others. The stuff that you’ll find here will typically be unconventional and non-traditional. Innovation is what we’re looking for.
We’re pleased to see that the first members are already signing-up for the free-of-charge account we currently offer.
And, as you would expect from us, signing-up is a no-strings-attached affair.
Right now, there are two discussions underway:
- In forum Entrepreneurship: What makes a person an Exceptional Entrepreneur?
- In forum Social and Digital Media: Facebook Apps That Will Make You Famous - What Are They?
If you want to take a look at what's happening in these forums and you're stopped by a message that tells you that you can't - it's because you're not a Registered Member.
You can solve that problem right now by registering for your own free-of-charge account. It probably takes you less than five minutes to get underway - and it may just be one of the best decisions you could make today...
Grab that free-of-charge account by clicking on the registration widget on the top-right side of this page.
In the meantime, I’ll be working fast and furious with other members and our team to make this one of the best sites on innovation and entrepreneurship ever…
Thanks for passing by – look forward to reading your ideas on any of the afore mentioned topics!
Hope to see you inside soon..
Raymond
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