Social Networking Web Development
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A social network is a social structure made of individuals which are connected by a common interest, such as friends, family, work, dislike, relationships, beliefs, fans of an Artist, or a NBA basketball team, these are a few examples of what common interests could exist and connect people together to form a group within a social network.
Each Day millions of new Web Communities are popping up in hope of connecting with extensive global groups who are sharing common ties or interests as the many users that stampede to them. These groups have proved to be fun are and popular. For Businesses social networks have become crucial, helping companies and professionals share knowledge and skills by networking.
Social Networks have become a source of real Income, and entertainment for all. The 5 top Social Networking Sites are Facebook,Myspace, Twitter,Linkedin, and Classmates.com. These sites have built vivacious online communities with millions of members. These sites and hundreds of other social networking sites have similiar functionality and feautures. On these sites, members can create their own profiles, post blogs, chat in the forums, and are able to share videos and pictures with their connections.
Anyone can signup for any of these sites, or you can easily create your very own social Networking site, with your "own" community. More and more professional individuals and business owners are starting to see the true benefits of setting up their own community sites, and finding that owning your own social networking site doesn’t have to cost millions or an arm or a head , or even require much technical skill to run. Here's are a few reasons why you may wish to consider having your "own" social networking site:
- Social Why?
- Social Networking Is A Growing Trend!
- A Social Networking Site Is An Awesome Place To Develop Your Entrepreneurial Skills
- A Social Community Site Can Inject New Life Into An Organization
- A Social Networking Site Offers Way More Than Just A Forum
- A Community Site Can Help You Make Your Own Databank Of future Customers
- A Social Networking Site Can Help You Explore and Find New Business Opportunities
- A Social Networking Site Can Turn Your Site Into An Online Land of Authority
- A Social Networking Site Can Become A Growing Asset For You
Imagine owning an online community site which, after a couple of years, has become a “nucleus”, or authority site for your specific niche, because you have cultivated and helped it grow to 100,000 members, all intended around a distinguishing area of interest. From our experience as Professional Designers, there are many companies, advertisers and competing business owners in your exact scope, that would view your site as an Impeccible asset which they would probably like to own or accomplish a greater benefit from.
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- 1.Let Your Users Engage Quickly
Your Users Engagement is critical for the success of Your Social Networking Website. We will make sure that Your visitors are instantly sucked into your site,whether its by means of graphic design, top notch content, getting the User to take the next step,or another form of instant website usage.
How Can We do That?
Your Visitors must see what Your website is all about within milliseconds of landing to your social networking websites frontpage. Usually visitors wont be inclined to try to learn what a social networking site's about if its not immediately introduced to them. By using your site's title, a tag line, and graphics on your homepage helps your visitors know what the scope of your site is all about.
For example, as soon as a visitor lands on "Facebook's Homepage" they are aware of what Facebook's mission is.
Keep Your Visitors Busy and Engaged
Your Homepage of your Website should allow visitors, both new and repeat visitors with a task to do. What can you have your Visitors do once they land on your Homepage? Sign up and login is what most sites do. But what about allowing your Visitors to do more? Giving them the liberty to explore your site, and find out what its all about before they sign up is a great idea. Why not let them search for friends or people they may know? Let them become engaged and by allowing your Visitors this freedom, assures and creates a feeling of trust and comfort from the get go.
Xing engages visitors with many tasks like signing up, searching and going on a tour as soon as visitors land on their home page.
Advocate Compelling Content for Your Friends
Find Your Friends Fast
- .2Allow Visitors to Vent
Express Yourself on Your Profile Page
Allowing Uniqueness
3. Be Charismatic
Charismatic content is the king of Web 2.0 sites and Social networks are the same. Content should change regularly, with the newest, most popular information constantly being displayed on homepage for users to engage in.
Constantly Changing Content is Important
Social networking sites naturally are ever changing and there's always going to be brand new content from the users. Make sure to use this to your advantage by having rich new content, both on the home page and on users’ profiles pages. This new content keeps users returning for more, as there’s more valuable information to read each time they visit.
Real Time Updates are Crucial
Take advantage of real-time news feeds for your users , this content should update automatically every minute or so without any user engagement at all. A great example of this would be our Twitter-feed, which feeds new information right onto your social networking page.
4. Let Friends have "Groups"
The more friends you attain, the more advantageous grouping them becomes. If you only have twenty or sixty friends, it’s okay to put them all together in the same place. However, when your friend numbers grow to 200, 300, 400 or higher, the ability to group them becomes almost a essential. Actually, you may wish to separate your business friends, school friends, new acquaintances, best friends, and kin all in separate groups and filter updates, and what is seen by whom.
Allow User to Make their Own Groups
When it comes to grouping friends only the user knows how to organize this. Some users may wish to put their friends into a few groups (like a work group and personal or family and friends group). Other users may wish to set up lots of groups for their friends. Either way, make sure users can add their friends as they wish to one group or to many.
Automatic Groups are Popular
Grouping friends automatically is popular as well. The most popular way currently is to group friends by which applications that they are using or grouping friends by common friends, same group in common or business interests.
5. Why Use OpenSocial?
OpenSocial, is Google’s application platform for social networks, and allows many options for your social networking site. The main job of OpenSocial is to allow developers to create applications that work in a variety of social networks. Another benefit of OpenSocial is that it allows users take their "same" profile information and and use it in many social networks that they partake in.
Users Need a Variety of Applications
Having variety of applications is one of the most important factors of social networks. Kinds of applications vary from productive applications to fun, gaming to expressive applications are only a few to mention. Developers are making new applications every day. Since Google is the mastermind behind Opensocial you can look forward to even more and better applications to come in the near future.
Take YOUR Profiles Anywhere
Letting your users to take their profile information to other social networking sites using OpenSocial is a huge advantage. This means works both ways as they can also bring their profile info from another social network back over to your social network, which can increase your traffic and new signups greatly.
6. Simply Communicate
The whole purpose of a social network is to bring forth communication. If you somehow make it hard to converse for the users, your site will not make it. When developing your social networking site keep communication in mind, users must be able to easily talk to each other.
Communication
Almost all social networks provide many ways to communicate for their users. The widely used are private, public wall messages, live chat or instant messaging. Its important to include all these and very important to provide "private messaging".
Encourage Conversations
Simply encourage users to have conversations with one another. This can be done through threaded messages, or comments by pulling other users into the conversation will make it highly interesting and your site will become much more compelling.
7. Applicable Information ONLY
Social Networked are jammed packed with information. With updates, users’ activities, and group emails notices , there’s a ton of data coming at your users. Keep in mind not to send your user any more information that they don't really need.
What Needs to be Here?
Make sure you give your users only whats important for the functions they need to be able to do. If there is more information that some users may find helpful or beneficial to them, make sure you make this available to your users and easy to access.
Keep your Users Happy
The amount of information on social networks can feel mind- boggling. Make the choices easy and give only a few options to make the user feel content.
Also only send out news updates and emails when absolutely necessary. Make sure you use a blog or news page (with an RSS feed) for regular updates and non important information. This way users can see whats going on or news updates as they wish.
Provide Users A Way To Filter
Letting users to filter information that they don't want can be very important to the user. Allow users to filter out updates from certain friends or groups or makes it easier for them to see the information they want to see without getting overwhelmed.
8. Ready...GET SET....GO!!
Indicate What You Want
You will want to make it apparent what you want you to do, what response are you looking for? or what action do you want them to take? You can simply use bigger icons for the response that you desire and a tiny text link for the less desired response, you can change this up by using a variety of colors or different language for each preferred response.
Simply Make it EASY
If you want users to do something or perform a specific action, make sure its obvious to the user how to do this. For example, "inviting new friends" make this as easy as possible for your users to find the correct form to invite their friends . This isn't hard to do, just make sure you organized these specific actions so they make sense to the user.
9. Have Pictures of Your Avatar
Most Importantly every social network out there encourages users to upload a photo for their profile. This picture will show up next to any comment or action this user does. Their Profile Picture or Avatar should show up next to any updates, friend lists, news feed and in their groups. This is another way a user can express him or herself by the avatar they choose to use.
People Feel Good Seeing Other People
Somehow seeing your friend’s picture next to a blog post or comment or application on the social networking site makes it more interesting to you and the information becomes more relevant. You'll likely read, click or promote on whatever they seem to talking about. This happens to enhance trust when you see a familiar face, even if you don't even know that person in real life time.
10. Users Want To Connect
In the beginning social networks only fostered "real friends" people you actually knew in "real life". However that has changed, as social networks have grown, they’ve become an avenue to meet people. Encourage your users to search others based on interests, businesses, religions, or relationships. You can help by giving your user the tools they need to help network and find friends, communicate and engage with each other, even if its only in the "online web world".
User Groups Are Good
Now most social networks let users to make their own groups or join groups based interests in common. Some groups maybe "Professional" for Business only, and then there are less serious groups, maybe they have love a certain Artist, they come together just for fun and share with other fans in their group. Groups merely allow people to find others who share a "likeness".
Directory For Members
Directories for members is a great way to let your users locate each other. These are the most useful for smaller social networks, allowing each member to see each and every member. Huge social networks directories prove to be less important or useful. If you can provide a way to filter the directory either by age or location, it may work. In large Members should be given the option to "opt out of the directory or be "unlisted" if you will, for their own desired privacy.
