ASME Officially Declares Professional Networking a Big Issue

Even an old organization like ASME can look to the future. The ASME Strategic Issues, Opportunities, and Knowledge Committee has turned its sites to Professional Networking. The following article was posted in the September issue of Strategic Issues and Trends.

I have been posted it here with permission from Allian Pratt.

Professional Social Networking

Social networking may have started with friends gossiping in high
school and college on MySpace, but users are now turning to a more
personal type of business networking. Facebook and other general-purpose
social networking sites are creating business offshoots that enable

Social Web Articles

I just discovered a great blog called Internet Duct Tape. Anyway, the reason I am telling you this is because of two great posts about social web application recently posted.

The first “The Problem With Social Web Applications” highlights two fundamental problems, both related to the fact that there are so many social web applications out there. The second article is “9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social Web Application.” This one has so much great stuff in it I can’t believe its free. I wish ASME would have considered many of the techniques and gotchas when the created the COP site. Oh well. We’ll try to get it right when COP 2.0 comes out later this year.