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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jeremiah Owyang has a post called " The Many Challenges of Social Networking " suggesting that social networks have passed the peak of inflated expectations and has identified a good list of challenges to success. " This relates to three challenges identified by Jeremiah: Successful Networks have hard time scaling.

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Has Facebook Entered the Trough of Disillusionment?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's a diagram I created to illustrate Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles. I thought about that diagram when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? Social Networks is the killer app of social media and Facebook is the most enjoyable place I have yet seen to meet people with whom I share common interests.