If You Were in Charge of the Social Networking Industry…

May 10, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Editorial, Features, General, Social Media

If you were in charge of the social networking industry, what social product or service would you offer?

WordPress has always been defined as “social” when it comes to creating an online presence and community, after all, a blog is all about community building, which differentiated it from a static HTML site.

I see many of today’s social networking services as accessories to your blog. No matter where you go around the web, you can always point to your blog like a virtual business card and resume. “Check out my blog! See what I can do!”

However, Matt Mullenweg and others want to really push the limits of what social means in social networking and put WordPress at the center of your social experience online. Their first steps came with the release of the Prologue WordPress Theme and the incorporation of BuddyPress. They are hard at work to make it even more “social”, though what that means is my question.

Let’s brainstorm. What would that look like? If you were in charge of social networking around the world, what would you want on your blog to make it more social and connect all the online social with your blog as the center focal piece?

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About the author: The author of Lorelle on WordPress, as well as several other blogs, Lorelle VanFossen has been blogging in one fashion or another for over 14 years, covering travel, nature and travel photography, web design, web theory and development, blogging, and WordPress extensively as web technologies developed. Lorelle is also the author of the fast-selling book, Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging, available in the new Blog Herald Bookstore. Lorelle will be speaking at WordCamp Dallas March 29-30, the Alliance for Distance Education in California Summit April 2-5, 2008, and the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference May 2-5 in Chicago.

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2 Responses to “If You Were in Charge of the Social Networking Industry…”

Jeff G on May 11th, 2008 10:30 pm

Hey Lorelle you should check out Virtudex.com it’s the best Business Social Network
Lorelle VanFossen on May 12th, 2008 8:51 am

@Jeff G:

Thanks, but how about telling me why first? :D That helps me and everyone to understand why you recommend this and what benefit it has for you.

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