{"id":509,"date":"2008-09-04T22:13:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetawelle.de\/?p=509"},"modified":"2020-07-04T00:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T23:10:51","slug":"measuring-20-bringin-people-together%c2%b4ness-part-3-of-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetawelle.de\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Measuring 2.0: Bringin-People-together\u00b4ness (part 3 of 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I would like to continue my series about measuring 2.0’ness with a handful (part 3 of 5) of things to check. First things first: The idea to measure 2.0’ness is simply to identify easily those factors which make a 2.0-service or -application really „fly“ i.e. successful. There are certain things that many of the applications and services which are successful have in common.<\/p>\n

Bringin-People-together\u00b4ness<\/b>
\nThe Bringin-People-together\u00b4ness is one of the five significant criterias to unleash the power of 2.0. The internet does not grow on its own, people make it grow like a building. It’s the people who connect and make the connections.<\/div>\n

In part 1 (Longtail\/Crowd Sourcing)<\/a><\/strong> and part 2 (Future\/Trends\/Innovation)<\/a><\/strong> I tried to explain my point of view about which are the first and the second most driving forces behind 2.0’ness. Part 3 (Connecting People)<\/strong> sheds some light upon the network and the social side of the net.<\/p>\n

People – wherever they are – do not like to be alone.<\/strong> The human beeing is a social beeing which usually cannot live without any connection to others for endless periods of time. We like to connect and to contact.<\/strong> But if you should choose from 6 Billion people on the net with whom to connect, this results in a problem. You need to make a descision for a certain selection. You need something that helps you connect to the right people<\/strong>. Often the best connection is made meeting people which are „like-minded“ or which do have the „same interests“, at least they have something in common<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Bringing people together which are like-minded<\/strong> to inspire each other seems like a very promising approach then. And it is! Nearly all socalled social webapplications<\/strong> like e.g. facbook, xing, studivz, orkut, lastfm, flickr, myspace, and so on allow you to declare yourself as beeing interested in certain things<\/strong> by e.g. simply adding yourself to a group. It is easy as that! Just by „broadcasting“ your favourite subjects you get connections from others out there.<\/p>\n

If you want to bring people together, you need to give them tools to express their profile of interest.<\/strong> This may be e.g.:<\/p>\n