Difference between revisions of "User talk:SteveHabibRose"

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Welcome

Hello SteveHabibRose and welcome to AboutUs!

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Please sign your name on talk pages using three or four tildes (~~~ or ~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and, with four, the date. If you need help ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --Simon | talk 09:41, 5 March 2007 (PST)

Hi Steve, I added a future category tenatively called Category:AboutUsCollaborator - let me know what your thoughts are. Best, MarkDilley

I like the ConnectorsNet.com idea a lot!! Nice work, MarkDilley

looks great!

Excellent! I'm really happy with how this is going! How do you feel about where we are and our readiness to invite more folks here?

Point of information: WikiLinking can make it easy to make links. You can write MarkDilly (which gives you MarkDilly) instead of http://www.aboutus.org/MarkDilly (which gives you http://www.aboutus.org/MarkDilly). Notice how the two are different colors? One is an InternalLink and the other is an ExternalLink. The WhatLinksHere feature only works with internal links. TedErnst

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I don't have a preference. Feel free to make the change here: Template:NetworkWeaver:Profile TedErnst

That is good news Habib!! MarkDilley

Blurty

Re: NetworkWeaver:SocialNetworkingSites, I don't know if Blurty.com really qualifies as a social networking site. It's like calling LiveJournal a social networking site. I guess it all depends on what you think a social networking site is ;-) Do blog hosting sites qualify as social networking sites? If you think they do, you might as well add LiveJournal, CrazyLife.org, AboutMyLife.net, GreatestJournal.com, among others. — Nathan ^(talk)_{/ 23:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)}

Ah, I guess if Wikipedia counts that, we/you should probably add all known LiveJournal-based sites :) — Nathan ^(talk)_{/ 02:32, 3 May 2007 (UTC)}

I think LiveJournal qualifies as a social networking site in my mind, as does MySpace and such. There are many different qualities to those sites, then to a Facebook.com or LinkedIn.com site. MarkDilley

From my perspective, the whole point of having categories as part of the Network Weavers Network is to help people find one another. We can find one another based on the area we live, our areas of focus, and the "social networking sites" we belong to/participate in.

So, I think the main criteria are whether people would be able to find one another on a site by name and then send messages to one another, add each other as friends etc. I think if they can do those things, then, by my standards, it's enough of a "social networking site" to qualify.

For example, based on my current understanding, Blogger is not a Social Networking Site. It is a tool for creating blogs. At least from their homepage, it does not seem to focus on providing opportunities to add friends, interact with a community of people etc.

In contrast, when I went to AboutMyLife.net, even though the system is temporarily down, they pointed me towards a page with forums for users to communicate with one another. One of the first message titles I saw was: "Happy Birthday Dani!" I consider that to be social networking.

I'm not familiar with LiveJournal. But, when I visit their homepage, they say:

LiveJournal lets you express yourself, share your life, and connect with friends online.

You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum, a social network, and more.

It is those additional features of a discussion forum and a social network that makes me consider LiveJournal sites to be "social networking sites."

Just to let you know, while I didn't think that Blogger qualified as a social networking site, somebody else did! It's now listed, through the magic of the AboutUs wiki community :-)

That works. You know, I forgot to check for responses. That'll teach me to keep the page watched :) Do we want to bring Category:NetworkWeaver:AboutMyLife.net back from the ashes, then? Nathan ^(talk) / 05:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm back

Hi Habib,

I'm reviewing work that's been done while I was gone. Looks excellent! I look forward to talking with you and catching up. Are you able to schedule something in the near future? TedErnst