Communicators’ Network : a mixture of social network blogs and groups
Just came across Melcrum’s Communicators’ Network, a community based social network.
I’ve just had a snoop around and it seems to be social networking across groups.
All users have a profile, showing:
- latest blog posts
- contacts
- documents
- comments
- expert tags (by interest, and by specialisation)
- it doesn’t say what groups a user is a member of
- it doesn’t have the latest forum posts by a user
Here is an example user.
The Communicators’ Network has lots of groups, and each group has members, and there is a forum for each group…I don’t see a group events, documents, wikis, etc…doesn’t seem very set up for groups, moreso for individual networking.
I can’t even see the latest blog posts, and comments by members in a group.
Here is an example group.
All the blogs and forums are aggregated into their own view.
Not sure if it works this way, but what I’ve said before is essential that you can publish blog posts in your own user space, and decide to tag particular posts you want to appear in a group you are a member of…as not all your blog posts will be relevant to a group, or perhaps any groups.
Anyway, the Communicators’ Network are in the same space as others I’ve posted on such as; Blogtronix, Ning, Clearspace and CollectiveX…they all have their subtle differences.
I have a few more services offering groups and networking at my post, A community or network around your blog.
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Hi, great to see you have found the network. However, I’m not sure what you mean when you say you can’t see the pstings in the groups? Unless the group is set as private by its creator, anyone can see the posts and members within?
Alex
Comment by Alex Manchester — October 18, 2007 @ 1:02 am
Hi Alex,
What I meant is that you can’t see the latest blog posts from group members…I can only see a stream of the latest forum posts.
The homepage of a group is photos of members and the latest forum topics, that’s it…
Comment by Johnt — October 18, 2007 @ 7:06 am
Alex,
Check out an example of a similar service by Clearspace, although this is a server product, here is an example used by the Ignite Community
http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/index.jspa
Comment by Johnt — October 18, 2007 @ 7:10 am