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ziki.com is one of them newfangled mashup social software web 2.0 thingamajiggers

Honestly, most any social software site has got to be a good thing, there are just so many -

Here are a few things I have learned trying out a number of social software sites:

1. Make sure the site itself that functions correctly and is likely to stay online for the foreseeable future especially if there is potential for you to spend a lot of time configuring your profile / settings and maintaining / contributing to the community - many new sites appearing on the internet on a constant basis are beta works-progress, may have been simply built to flip… there are just a lot of things to take into consideration about investing a lot of time (or possibly even money) in a website over which you have no control regarding its actual existence.
2. Be careful you don’t duplicate your own content or draw attention away from your own site (if that matters to you) adding your feed(s) or other content from your own site to the social site…not to open an seo can of worms here…

I find Ziki interesting because it allows both a business profile and a personal profile - I had both, but ended up preferring only to have a business profile and what was nice was to be able to delete the personal profile pretty easily.

Here’s what the Ziki folks have to say about themselves.

My Ziki Business Profile

Other Social Networking sites of possible interest…

Twitter Profile Wikipedia

Tribe Profile Wikipedia

MySpace Profile Profile Wikipedia +4

FeedMeLinks (Bookmarking) Profile

del.icio.us (Bookmarking) Profile Wikipedia +1 +2 +3

Orkut Wikipedia

Friendster Wikipedia

FaceBook Profile (probably have to a FaceBook Member and logged in to view) Wikipedia +2

LinkedIn (business networking) Profile Wikipedia +1 +2

Zimbio Profile +1

Suprglu (feed aggregator) Profile

Feedbite (feed aggregator) Profile

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Of course there are conventional online forums that have been around for some time, in fact even before the internet in the form what now may seem primitive (tho some people may have liked ‘em better that way(?) bbs’s.

Several professional / business themed forums I am or have been active in over a number of years are:

Wheresspot +5

APANet

PhotoNews +6

LocationTalk +1

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No discussion about social websites would be complete with mention of Wikipedia - The Online Encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is not, in and of itself, generally thought of as “social”, however, what makes Wikipedia unique is that it is an encyclopedia comprised of articles authored and edited by its readership. I have begun and have helped edit a number of Wikipedia articles of subjects (such as location scouting) of interest to me.
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+1 mentioned elsewhere on rrhobbs.com
+2 mentioned elsewhere on rrhobbs.com
+3 mentioned elsewhere on rrhobbs.com
+4 mentioned elsewhere on rrhobbs.com
+5 mentioned elsewhere on rrhobbs.com
+6 mentioned elsewhere on rrhobbs.com

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