Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A More Socially Inclined Social Networking Design

Obviously, social community caters to what is socially engaging to the people within the social community. Meaning, people joined the network to get connected, to start relationships and to "get together" with other people of the same interest. Therefore, it is very crucial that a business' social networking design works to this end. There are actually so many ways to achieve this and what follows are just some of these ways.

One thing you can do is to design the site in such a way that it allows certain types of people to be grouped according to their interests or preferences. Users find it easier to comb through their social community communities if they can group their friends accordingly. Filtering is one function that users would love to have in their social networking site. They would want to keep certain groups of people apart to make it easier for them to personalize the amount of updates they wanted to see when they wanted to see it. Social website design must cater to this need to keep users coming back and keep them stay within the site and do favorable things for your business such as talking about your products and services.

It also makes sense to automatically group people with the same interests and preferences. It would be cool to have your social community designed this way. This helps users to expand their reach without necessarily giving too much effort in doing so. Another good way to pump up the social aspect of the site is to use social networking platforms (especially if it's free) and incorporate it on the company's social design. Doing so will definitely open up so many possibilities of interaction among the sites that are using the same platform and will enhance the social activities of the users in the site.

It is pretty obvious nowadays that social network in business is the trend and that many companies are taking advantage of this fact by creating a social networking site of their own. Some companies take the easier route by purchasing a social community script that they can just add on to their existing company website, tweak a little and then it's good to go. It is not that easy though to choose a good script for this. There are lots of different companies that sell different scripts (some may even be the same) and sometimes it can be hard to choose which one will bring the best on to the company's social networking endeavours.

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