Social Web Strategies

Once upon a time, MySpace ruled the socialsphere, then comes Friendster who rocked the Philippines for several years.

But these two social networking sites, are now considered “jurassic” by mainstream social networkers, at least in the Manila. Facebook rules and dominates the socialsphere. According to facebakers.com,  Facebook has more than 12M users in the Philippines, and RP ranked # 8 in the world where Facebook is no. 1

But soon, the rule of nature will catch up with Facebook, “what goes up will have to go down”. It is not a question of “if”, but an interesting question of “when”. As to how long Facebook can stay in top depends on it’s developers can recreate Facebook and continue to be relevant to end users. And of course, it is dependent on how they respond to issues on privacy and malwares.

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I have discussed on my previous posts how web 2.0 can enhance your personal brand, it helped me, and I firmly believe it can help you too =D

If you missed those posts, below are a few for your reading pleasure:

• Social Media and Personal Branding
• Get Hired by Embracing Web 2.0
• Synergize For Your Brand

Before we proceed, however, since there are notably new subscribers who are not familiar with the potential of web 2.0,  I find it proper to just bring us all together in the same understanding. Thus, we will revisit web 2.0 and rebuild our foundation.

I will re-post 2 videos I shared in my other blog (HR 2.0) here. The 1st one is about understanding web 2.0 in layman’s term and the 2nd one, the technical definition. Here is the first video

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