Hill+Knowlton Strategies

I’ve just been introduced to VoxSwap, a great way for those who are wanting to learn a language and connect with people who can teach you.

It doesn’t matter if you are a student needing help to get better language grades, a former student who doesn’t want to let their language skills go rusty or a business person needing to speak another language for work. VoxSwap’s premise is to ensure you can talk to real people and offer one another pointers on how to excel in a language.

This is another example of the beneficial uses of social networking, an alternative to Facebook! Whereby you can actually do something useful and stimulating whilst socialising. 

To have a look and register go to http://www.voxswap.com/

I’ve been wondering how long it would take for a social media guru to not only create a site that could incorporate all your social networking profiles into one profile but also incorporate feeds of you and your friends on your profile!  I’ve become a Facebook addict and love seeing who is doing what on the social corner. Never mind my MySpace profile, Flickr account with all my ‘forget-me-not’ photos, my business network, a definite must on LinkedIn, it goes on and on and on…

It seems the answer thus far is Wink – The people search engine! Wink specifically targets their search engine to find individual people who are active web and social network users. A few others such as 8hands, ProfileFly, and Tabber.

The Wink feeds pull in information about your friends from del.icio.us, Twitter, which has recently been added to Wink’s search tools, Flickr, Jaiku, MySpace, Facebook, Wordpress and more. You can find more on the subject on Mashable.

There is still a long way to go before it becomes 100% integrated, as I’m still playing with it and it’s not exactly where it should be. However I do feel it’s a good step in the right direction.  I look forward to seeing what happens next.  Below is a widget from Wink which will be placed on all my profiles shortly…

I know it’s been almost a year since Netcoms blogged, which is quite sad as Social Media and blogging in particular are our core strengths.  Although it is the agreement that what you do best, you do last for yourself!
 
Alas, it is now revived, and best you hold on to your seats, because the very first piece of knowledge you’ll be receiving from our team is that we have a new identity! No longer are we ‘Netcoms’, or ‘Netcomms’, or ‘Net Comms ‘or ‘Net What’? We are now called…Digital! 

The reason for simplicity I’m assuming is for those who go blank whenever you mention anything related to IT can grasp it straight away:-)

First piece of enlightenment I would like to share with you is how word of mouth is the #1 influence on business purchase decisions and is best leveraged through face-to-face marketing efforts…click here