Ideas from beyond the Wall!!

When ideas dry up, that is when you desperately hope for a flash of light to strike you which would make your day. It is indeed great to see that people have found this potential in social networking. It might have taken a while for this to strike people but the rate at which new methodologies, campaigns, marketing strategies are rising is phenomenal. All of a sudden, a plethora of opportunities lay in front of most people who might have disregarded it earlier and failed to realize the power of networks. Companies performing variety of functions from fund raising to idea generation have found this unbelievable method and that too “AT NO COST”. The following article describes how a variety of companies and organizations have been able to use social networking as a tool to convert people in the network to donors helping the social cause.

http://www.fundraisingsuccessmag.com/story/story_singlepg.bsp?sid=78437&var=story

 There have also been instances where it has been used for providing microfinance and yes it is true. What remains behind the hood of the potential is yet to be fully realized. Is it for the good, a blessing in disguise?? Or something that is slowly becoming an addictive force waiting to lunge and gobble you at the right moment?? There might be instances where such a power could be used for the wrongful reasons. Is it right in passing this potential to people who do not have a clue as to what lies in its future?

As for that matter is every new discovery or invention. It follows a pattern where the goods and bads reach a tradeoff for it to sustain. Right now it might seem lucrative, great, admirably the best thought so far but so were other plans in history that have been forgotten and long gone. There have also been instances where these social networking sites have proves to be a disaster with hackers defacing people and hence causing public embarrassment. A nice article gives an opposite view and looks like a serious thought.

http://www.thebonjours.com/2008/06/online-social-networkingboon-or-bane.html

All I have done is thrown the ball in you court to think about social networking and carefully decide before taking the next step. It could turn out to be a PIT….