Amongst them IMDB offers the most extensive network for film buffs. It is thorough technologically dated, are extremely comprehensive content-wise. Every film, television show, actor, actress, director, producer, and other named page on IMDB has its own message board.

Here are the 10 Most Popular Social Networking Sites for Movie Fans:

http://www.imdb.com/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

http://getglue.com

http://www.flixster.com

http://blogs.indiewire.com/spout/

http://www.filmcrave.com/

http://www.flickchart.com

http://www.criticker.com/

http://mubi.com/

http://filmaster.com/

Instead of static icons at the top,

Google has created a dynamic row of applications on the left. Users can drag icons up or down, hover over certain apps to reveal a set of quick actions and show or hide apps by moving them in and out of ‘More’.

The options include Hangouts, the Google group video chat; Google Plus Photos; Google Circles; and Games.

Google has also made the photo display on Google Plus larger than before and also created conversation ‘cards’ to make it easier to join discussions. Photos have become a focus of the new Google Plus design. Images shared in the stream are presented in a large view and flow into the Google Plus stream seamlessly.

There is also a dedicated Hangouts page, as well a new a new Explore page across the Google Plus network.

More details at official Google Blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2012/04/toward-simpler-more-beautiful-google.html

Posted by Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President

The most visible change is a new navigation ribbon on the left side of the Google Plus page with icons for the most-used features.

The new design is much prettier and easier to navigate than before.

The prototypes Google displayed have a sleek wrap-around look.

In development for a couple of years, the project is the brainchild of Google X, the online search-leader’s secret facility that spawned the self-driving car.

While wearing a pair, you can see directions to your destination appear literally before your eyes. You can talk to friends

over video chat, take a photo or even buy a few things online as you walk around.

These glasses can do anything you now need a smartphone or tablet computer to do and also connect to Google Social networking site & circle.

Check the awesome Google Project Glass Video -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4

Most of us use social networking software like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for a variety reasons. This article describes how a big company like IBM has been harnessing social networking to foster innovation, effectiveness, and efficiency.

According to the article -”A major driving force was the need to keep members of a huge company connected. With more than 380,000 employees (of which almost 50% are mobile) and 200,000 contractors in 170 countries at 2,000 locations, keeping employees connected is not easy.”

IBM uses a variety of social networking tools to facilitate mass collaboration. IBM is harnessing social networking to foster innovation, effectiveness, and efficiency. The applications not only match, but also help shape, the culture of the firm.

This practice has also been accelerating the formation of a collaborative culture inside IBM.

Authors:

Ann Majchrzak

University of Southern California (U.S.)

Luba Cherbakov

IBM (U.S.)

Blake Ives

University of Houston (U.S.)

Resources:

http://asmarterplanet.com/studentsfor/blog/2012/02/how-ibm-uses-social-networking.html

http://www.simnet.org/resource/group/0F59E34E-CD05-4889-AAD6-7C2891934489/documents/harnessing.pdf

Social networking sites have become very popular with Doctors, physicians & other medical professionals because they allow them to share journals, activities, events, and information within medical communities.

Social networks also connect doctors with patients. Hospitals use social networking sites to inform about their specialties & build their brand image.

Some of the leading Social Networking sites for Medical Professionals are:

http://www.medagog.com

Appointment & document manager for medical professionals

http://doc2doc.bmj.com/

Leading Medical journal and huge repository of research articles

http://exchanges.webmd.com/default.htm

Public discussion on various medical conditions

http://www.sharecare.com/

QnA on various diseases and medical conditions

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/

Huge collection of medical information sorted based on disease

http://www.ratemds.com/

Huge database of doctors with public ratings

http://doctors.net.uk/

Good content and Research Material

http://www.dailystrength.org

Public Groups and Forums offering advice etc

http://studentdoctor.net

Online test, interviews & Course Material for Doctors

http://www.sermo.com/

Search for MDs & Collaborate on difficult cases & Makes money from surveys and clinical trials

https://www.doximity.com/

Directory of Physicians based on Specialty

http://www.doctorshangout.com/

Complete Public forum with everybody posting photos & details

http://www.patient-experience.com

High quality articles sorted by diseases

http://www.patientslikeme.com/

Sharing disease condition, symptom or treatment by patients

http://www.everydayhealth.com/

Leading provider of online health information

http://doctorslounge.com/

High quality Medical Articles

http://www.healthboards.com/

Largest public forum of health related discussions

http://www.healthline.com/

Information sorted on the basis of diseases

http://ehealthforum.com/

QnA feature with lots of advice from actual doctors

http://www.healthcentral.com

Aggregates content from various sources

http://www.bettermedicine.com/

Quality content based on Medical Conditions

http://www.myoptumhealth.com/portal/

Quality content based on Medical Conditions

Medical professionals are concerned on Privacy issues with social networking services. As there are dangers of disclosing too much personal information about patients – online. However the benefits of social networking far outweigh the negative issues.

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Pinterest is a social network that allows users to share, organize and discover new interests by posting (also called pinning) images or videos to their own or other’s pinboard. Pinboard is a collection of things usually with a common theme.

Pinterest can be a really valuable tool for people with a specific purpose in mind. For example, people create board for each room in the house and then pin decorating ideas on it. Cooks can keep online recipes. Student can bookmark tutorials required to complete their project.

How is it Social

To find pinners, access everything and filter boards by category. Wherever you find good pin, you can repin it, like it, can leave comment or you can follow its updates. If you find it very interesting you can even follow all the boards of that pinner.

You can tweet or share pins on facebook.

Vocabulary

Pin: A pin is an image added to Pinterest. You can link to an image from a Web site or upload an image from your computer. Pins can include captions, like “A great way to reuse a coffee creamer bottle.”

Repin: Once something is pinned, it can then be repined by other Pinterest users. This is how content spreads virally. If you see something you like on Pinterest.com, repin it to share it with your friends.

Board: This is where your pins live. You can have separate boards for subjects such as a wedding, rooms in your house or favourite recipes.

Features

• It emphasizes pictures over text.
• It has initially appealed to mostly women, who have in turn pinned and re-pinned more interesting content.
• It is relatively easy for new users to sign up and then crawl the net to “pin” images they like and “re-pin” images from others they follow. Furthermore, users can create as many boards as they want and pin things on them sensibly, like filing things in folders.

How do I get register?

Pinterest is currently invite only. To register for Pinterest, new users must receive invitation from a friend already registered on Pinterest or request an invitation directly from the Pinterest website. The registration process currently requires users to link their Pinterest account to their facebook or twitter account. Users choosing to log in via Facebook must currently be using (or opt in to) Facebook’s “timeline” format.

How do I get started on Pinterest? How do I set up my Pinterest page?

Once you get invitation. The steps are:

1. Create profile page. Add your profile picture, write a short bio.
2. Install ‘Pin it’ button. Getting this button will allow you to organize content from all over the web.
3. Create a board. You have to select one out of 5 templates: Products I Love, Favourite Places & spaces, Books worth reading, My Style pinboard and for the home.
4. Get Pinning. After creating pin boards that fit your interest, you can pin images on it either from your computer or from the web. Add description to your pins. Insert hyperlinks. This will direct people to your site. That’s it.

What you can do on Pinboard?

1. You can save all the images you find online in a single, streamlined place.
2. You can pin any image from any website using the simple “Pin It” button, also known as the pinmarklet.
3. You can create unlimited boards about anything and everything that interests you.
4. You can organize your pins onto themed pinboards.
5. You can discover anything from new recipes and travel destinations to birthday cake ideas and decorating tips.
6. You can follow other Pinterest members (or just the boards you like).
7. You can contribute new pins to someone else’s board, if their settings allow it.
8. You can repin another member’s pins onto your own board.
9. You can comment on your favorite pins.
10. You can mention another Pinterest user when commenting on or describing a new pin.
11. You can share your pins on Twitter and Facebook.
12. You can like a pin, which will add it to the “likes” section of your profile.
13. You can invite others to follow you on Pinterest with cute buttons.

How Pinterest works for your business?

1. Don’t over-promote yourself. You can pin the images on your own website but keep this to a minimum.  Give proper description and proper tags on the image.
2. Follow people in your industry and re-pin their images when you like them. Also commenting on others’ images will help you build a larger following.
3. Add a “Pin This” button to your website to remind people to pin your images.
4. Make sure you properly source the images you pin.
5. Follow the leaders. A couple of great companies to follow are Kate Spade and GAP. They may not be in your market, but you will learn from their strategies.

How to use Pinterest for marketing?

The biggest challenge for companies to market on pinterest is the Visual Content. Here are some ideas of visual content you can post:

1. Visual Content you already have

You must have few photos related to your company. Right? If so, make a board ‘Company Culture’ and pin those photos. Have employee’s photographs? Create a board ‘Executive Management’ and pin their photos including bio of each executive.

2. Visuals from Blog Articles

Add some pics to your blog articles. Create a board. Pin those pics, give their link to blogs or you can also pin visual highlights of your blog.

3. Info Graphics and Data Charts

If you have any industry data that can be visualize, do so. You can even add excel charts with a nice headline.

5. Book Cover

If you have created any e-book, white paper or press release. Create a screenshot of it and add it to the board that’s collection of papers.

6. Photos of Customers

You can add photos of your customers and their feedback.

Summary – At the End of Day

• Create a User generated pinboard. This will give you a great opportunity to involve fans & customers in your marketing.
• Add Pin-It button to your website. Just like other social media websites this will also help you.
• Add links in description of your pins.
• Pinterest can Pin videos too so go ahead and create a Video Gallery and pin it.
• Users can use hashtags to tag their pins. Create a pinboard around it, tag it with a hashtag you’re also using twitter & Google+ and get advantage of cross-channel campaign.

Originally launched on Facebook in 2008, Circle of Moms is the one of the largest and fastest-growing online community for moms. It connects over 6 million moms worldwide to share advice and support essential to the journey of motherhood. More than 13% of moms in the US are its members, and they attract 100,000 new moms every week.

The acquisition adds to Sugar’s powerful portfolio of brands, and further extends the company’s position as a leading global women’s lifestyle brand.

“Acquiring Circle of Moms enables us to extend the reach of our existing mom audience, offer more valuable content, and strengthen our social community,” said Brian Sugar, Co-founder and CEO of Sugar Inc. “Circle of Moms has successfully established itself as a leading brand within this highly-coveted demographic. We’re thrilled to welcome the Circle of Moms team to Sugar and partner together in the next phase of our growth.”

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Other Resources:

http://www.circleofmoms.com

http://www.sugarinc.com

Bullhorn released a Social Recruiting Activity Report, which examines the usage of social media in executive and job recruiting.

According to the report, 48 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn exclusively.

These recruiters have an average of 661 connections, and don’t leverage the other two networks for social recruiting. From there, recruiters use Twitter more than Facebook.

Despite the fact that recruiters have fewer connections on Twitter (37 followers on average), 19 percent are connected to both LinkedIn and Twitter, while only 10 percent are connected to both LinkedIn and Facebook (245 friends on average).

In terms of adoption, LinkedIn continues to grow at the fastest pace.

The average recruiter adds 18.5 LinkedIn connections each week, compared to 3.3 Twitter followers, 1.4 Facebook friends.

LinkedIn drives more views per job than Twitter and Facebook, generating three times the amount of views of Twitter and six times the amount of Facebook.

LinkedIn – is a business related social networking site is mainly used for professional networking.

It has more than 135 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories. It is now disrupting the traditional recruiting industry.

Other Resources:

http://www.bullhornreach.com/cmsites/default/files/BullhornReach_2012ActivityReport_v5.pdf

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2012/02/12/linkedin-is-disrupting-the-corporate-recruiting-market/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/linkedin-twitter-beat-facebook-in-job-recruiting-infographic/9067

http://www.bullhornreach.com/

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/13/report-linkedin-leads-in-social-job-recruiting-followed-by-twitter-and-facebook/

http://www.ejobsitesoftware.com

 http://www.linkedin.com

It will serve as a social networking service between Lady Gaga and her fans. http://littlemonsters.com/ is currently in beta mode and fans can request an invite to be among the first to experience a new community only for Little Monsters.

Lady Gaga is very popular in social media. The pop megastar has the most followers on Twitter at over 19 million.

Gaga joined Google+ in January and has already accumulated more than 330,000 followers and also has 47 million Facebook fans.

Lady Gaga was the first artist to reach 1 billion views on YouTube.

The startup company that built the site is called Backplane, and Gaga’s manager Troy Carter is a founder. Backplane’s stated mission is to “unite people around interests, affinities and movements,” with Little Monsters being it’s first such endeavor.

The site LittleMonsters.com home page design is similar to Pinterest, the fast-growing “social pinboard” site for sharing images and rating content.

Other Resources:
http://littlemonsters.com/

http://thebackplane.com

http://technorati.com/social-media/article/lady-gagas-new-social-network-launches/

http://mashable.com/2012/02/07/lady-gaga-social-network-little-monsters-launch/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57374730-1/lady-gaga-social-network-is-for-little-monsters-eyes-only/

It covers details on 12 leading vendors of Enterprise Social Networks and includes some company implementations such as Jive Software, IBM Connections, Socialcast, Cisco Quad, Yammer, Microsoft SharePoint, NewsGator Social Sites, Google Plus, Rypple, The Hub At SAS Institute, Jingle At The Motley Fool, EMC Wants YOU To Be Social.

Full Article:

Enterprise Social Networks: A Guided Tour

http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/slideshows/view/232500737/enterprise-social-networks-a-guided-tour?pgno=1