Category: Blog
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Should Community Managers Open The Echo Chambers?
Look around your neighborhood. You’ll probably find people a lot like yourself: similar income, similar education levels, similar outlook, similar views. It’s what journalist Bill Bishop called The Big Sort, the tendency to choose to live among people similar to ourselves. It’s one of the factors that has led to America’s polarization. When we meet…
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MicroPayments Integration Plugin
CM MicroPayments is one of the most robust virtual wallet and currency solutions for WordPress. Once MicroPayments is integrated with the PeepSo environment, it adds the ability to support member wallets and grant or subtracts points for actions completed in PeepSo. These actions include posting comments, questions or answers.
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Sometimes You Really Need A Private Social Network
Imagine that you’re on your way out of your therapist’s office. The elevator opens and the person waiting by the door gives you a double-look. You’ve never seen them before. You don’t know them. But they know your name, who you work for, what school you went to, the details of your recent break-up, your…
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Websites Turn From Comments To Communities
It’s hard to believe now, but back in the early days of the Web, when Amazon was still a bookshop and Mark Zuckerberg just another geeky Harvard student, websites didn’t have comments sections.
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What Twitter’s Struggles Can Teach You About Building a Successful Social Network
Remember MySpace? It used to be the king of social media, the platform that other social media platforms wanted to be.
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How To Deal With Fake News On Your Private Social Network
Chances to beat Zuckerberg at his own game don’t come around too often but owners of private social networks have a glorious opportunity right now.
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Private Social Networks and the Value of True Connection
The head of the Catholic church might seem an unlikely candidate when it comes to people making poignant, interesting comments about social media, but in section 47 of his treatise Laudato Si, Pope Francis has done just that.
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The Private Social Network for Forbes’ 30 Under 30
Tinder and Forbes might seem like an unlikely pairing, but they’ve just collaborated on a social networking app (to be launched this October) – one with very, very exclusive membership criteria. In order to join, you have to have made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list; it’s being touted as “speed networking” for rising stars.
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Private Social Networks: Three Case Studies
There’s a wide variety of reasons why people might want to start their own social network; privacy is a dominant one. Whatever you’re interested in keeping safe, from your children to data about how you use the internet, smaller social networks can be a very appealing option. Here’s three popular private social networks, to show…
