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Social Souace launches Sosauce.com, the content network

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Social Sauce, based in new York City, has launched Sosauce.com, a community for content creation, sharing, and exploration. By adding powerful, fun content creation tools to the communication features of social networking, Sosauce pushes the current boundaries of social networking to raise the quality of the content people can create and share.

“Sosauce is a recorder and a showcase for life’s experiences,” Howard Tsao, CEO, said. “We created powerful tools and a sleek design so that people can create, share and talk about content in a fun and easy way. Sosauce is different, because it expands from being network centric to also being content centric.”

Originally posted on March 10, 2008 @ 11:52 am

Inspire announces five new non-profit partnerships

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Inspire announced that it will partner with five distinguished national nonprofit health associations in developing and moderating a social networking site for each organization’s constituents.

The organizations include the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, Encephalitis Global, Oley Foundation, Neurofibromatosis, Inc. and the United Leukodystrophy Foundation.

Inspire has built and currently moderates online communities for more than 25 nonprofit organizations—ordinarily at no charge. The communities allow organizations to expand and become better acquainted with their constituencies– and to provide community members with needed information and services.

Most communities are currently financed by minimal advertising (with a percentage of the proceeds donated to the partnering nonprofits) and by foundations. Inspire also offers survey research and clinical trial notification services for companies seeking to reach members who opt to take part in those programs.

Originally posted on March 5, 2008 @ 10:14 pm

Online communities important to American adults

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online communitiesThough most of us already know or feel that online communities are important part of our lives, it is more credible if there’s a large scale or long-term study to support our assumptions. And now we have one.

In annual eight-year-long project conducted by The Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, it turned out two-thirds of American adults under 50 years old extremely believe that online communities are essential to their existence.

Knowing humans are social creatures, any form of interaction with other people is considered important. That’s why college students in this survey liken online communities to bars and nightclubs. According to Annenberg Center for the Digital Future research director Jeffrey Cole:

For college students, an online community is like a night club. When the night club becomes too popular or the uncool kids start showing up at the club, they’re out of there. We think college students move through different communities, which we have seen already – from Friendster to MySpace and now to Facebook.

The good part is that most students, while addicted to these social networks, are still into face-to-face interaction. That’s a relief.

via Daily Trojan

Originally posted on March 5, 2008 @ 9:37 am

Inspire to build 30th online health community with United Cerebral Palsy of NY

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Inspire, a company known for building online communities for nonprofit health associations, announced that it will partner with United Cerebral Palsy of New York City (UCP/NYC) and United Cerebral Palsy National (UCP) in Washington, DC, to develop and manage an online community for parents of children with cerebral palsy and other development disabilities.

The online community will be part of an authoritative early intervention resource site to be launched later this year. It will be the 30th health social networking site built by Inspire, which was founded in 2005.

UCP is the leading source of information on cerebral palsy-which affects more than 760,000 individuals in the US. The National organization is one of the nation’s leading organizations– serving and advocating for the more than 54 million Americans with disabilities. Today, more than 65 percent of the 176,000 children and adults served by UCP affiliates have disabilities other than cerebral palsy.

Inspire has also recently signed partnership agreements with the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, Encephalitis Global, Oley Foundation, Neurofibromatosis, Inc., and the United Leukodystrophy Foundation.

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Originally posted on March 3, 2008 @ 11:32 am

BOOMj reports record unique visits and page views in February

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boomj.pngBOOMj, a web-based niche lifestyle portal and social network serving more than 78 million Baby Boomers and Generation Jonesers, garnered record unique visits and page views for the month of February. Based on Alexa.com’s data, BOOMj.com has broken into the top 12,000 most viewed sites. Additionally, BOOMj, Inc. reports 910,000 unique visits and 2.1 million page views to www.boomj.com for the month of February.

BOOMj offers Internet users over the age of 35 focused content and breaking news in health, finance, politics, technology, entertainment and lifestyle integrated with social networking tools and e-commerce.

Originally posted on March 3, 2008 @ 10:48 am