Sunday, March 23, 2008

Social News Meets Business

Social News websites are starting to pop up in the internet. These sites are a way to pick out important news and see people's opinions and other comments on the issue. According to the article 'A Beginer's Guide to Social News Websites,' "these social media channels will give you a platform to showcase your content and website to a large audience." It takes topics that get the most attention. A popular example of this is Digg.

(Digg.com: What is Digg? Take a Quick Tour!)


I think these sites can be helpful towards businesses. First, blogs in general are very random and not very organized. By having this kind of site that limits what it brought in, could make it more organized. Second, it picks important topics or products, especially things that get some attention. This could be helpful to businesses because they can go to a specific cite and get more reliable information and opinions on something that can relate to them.

Digg is one example of a site that does this and as the photo shows above, you can pick and choose what kind of information you want to look for.

1 comment:

Deepak Shahani said...

Hey Kendra. Thanks for sharing about the Digg website. I will try to use the website and see if I find it useful. There seems to be a lot of potential in social news websites, and it has great value. Perhaps, this will change the way we access news information. We can narrow our reading, to what we are most interested in. In addition, readers are allowed to give more feedback, like the letters to the editor page, in the back of newspapers.