Money doesn’t bring happiness, they say. Sindinero.org has a new perspective: "earn happiness when it’s needed."

Canalwoman refers to a study that suggests that people who have more money, don’t necessarily enjoy life more: "they don’t always have the time or opportunity to make their life more pleasurable with the money they have." Or, as they put it, "money can pay for a house, not a home."

It’s true that time doesn’t usually grow when times are tough, but initiatives appear that capitalize on both. The network that we’re referring to is sindinero.org, whose aim is to get the most out of our resources, teach us to manage them, learn to live with less needs, and also, like any community, make friends. In other words, master several of the keys that can bring us the desired happiness.

A free weekend if you help with the farming tasks (organic gardening, collecting grass, building a fence), videos on the ethnosphere, groups in different cities, resources, invitations to get rid of what you’re storing in the attic ... But above all, the chance to get involved in everyday actions that turn the crisis into an opportunity for change.

Join sindinero.org and dare to provide a good response to Marilyn Monroe when he claimed: "Money can’t buy happiness, but I prefer to cry in a Rolls Royce." Do you dare?
 
http://sindinero.ning.com

El País starts its own social network for sharing news, stated Genbeta in resounding fashion following its launch. And to follow up, they asked the big question... can Eskup  forge a niche? They singled out Menéame as the main competitor, "but as always we users will have the final word," they concluded.

I believe that Eskup is a long way from achieving these goals and capturing fans of information by giving them a "prestige" role, which will lead to their becoming loyal readers and potential buyers of information or paid services. But I must add that I think it’s a good bet, although at the moment it shows a hint of inbreeding.

And it seems good because I think it would necessitate the survival of mainstream media but not via paid content, rather through services that satisfy new or old demand. Not so much in providing information, free currency on the Internet, nor for its critical role, which blogs and digital media have been doing much better for a long time, rather perhaps social observatory, international reflection, rating professional ethics?

In a new era of citizen’s journalism and blogosphere as the Fifth Power, the historic structure and power of El País should help safeguard informative values through training and ongoing discussions with the new players. And for itself, its own network should open it to new sources, to questions about collective preparation of information, open endings so that the reader can draw his own conclusions, information as a starting point for personal research provided by links, etc ... In summary, we’ll learn to polish the journalist we have inside.

DeUgarte rightly stated: "My first question is whether it isn’t a little too large for El País, I see the model as interconnecting different media rather than devoted to one alone. What do you think?

http://eskup.elpais.com/index.html

When times are hard we tend to rack our brains and come up with initiatives that change things. We can’t donate blood by Internet yet but we certainly can become 2.0 Donors!

How many of us would donate blood more often but simply don’t remember?  The statistics say many of us. In 2009, 38,573 donations more than the previous year were obtained in Spain, an increase of 2.16%… just over three points lower than the 2008 figure, which was 5.57%. The level of national self-sufficiency, that is to say, the index of donations per thousand inhabitants, has been calculated at 39.03, when it should be between 43 and 45 donations. On the whole, there are around 2,162,000 active donor.*

In the age of virtual friendships, what could be more fitting than becoming blood friends. Join up according to our blood group, find out about reserves, how many of us there are, where we are, support each other and, above all, remember that the smaller the state support, the greater our responsibility. If social networks give power to the people, let’s show it! 

The Facebook application Donors 2.0 is another of the initiatives being launched for June 14th, the International Blood Donor Day, for which Barcelona will gain the status of capital for a year in recognition of its free, voluntary, altruistic model, organized around a single blood bank. Barcelona Has Blood is its motto, and the crossed plaster is the symbol that aims to become international, as the blood donation movement has no distinctive one. Blood friends can also vote for the plaster, gaining its official recognition with their vote. 

Solidarity is a trend and that’s why voting for the plaster wins a prize. 15 pairs of Munich trainers will go to the winners of a draw that includes anyone who has voted by July 4th. Thus making them fashionable blood friends.

Guess what else unites you to your friends, cast a blood vote and show your support. You’re all welcome, except vampires! Make it clear that Tienes Sangre or Tens Sang. 

*Data provided by the Spanish Federation of Blood Donors

http://www.tenemossangre.org/

They’ve always said that creatives are crazy, always trying things on, have no shame, are way too precious. But guess what? They’re no fools. Absolutely not! Do you know what they’ve just set up? Swap!

Swapyourshop is a community that allows creative professionals to swap spaces, i.e., to grab your laptop and go to work at someone else’s house while you discover his or her city. Or, and herein lies the beauty of the idea, the two creative professionals keep their jobs but carry them out at the workplace and in the city of the other. "SwapYourShop is an online community that allows creative professionals to connect and organize for a temporary swap. This exchange applies only to spaces (home and office) throughout the country (the U.S.) or even the world. Those who do the swap keep on working for their company. Change place, but not your job, ", explain the founders of the project, Rachel Clemens, Josh Peichoto, Jennifer Wright and Mackenzie Walsh. (Source: Yorokubu)

Creatives around the world (although I’m afraid that at the moment it’s very U.S. focused, being an American start-up) can suggest a swap. Thereafter, they swap homes, offices, bars (yes, even bars!)... while still working for their company as usual, just elsewhere. They put it very simply: they'll get to swap their lives and keep their jobs. The funny thing is that, in order to sell the idea, they say that swappers will be creatively influenced by new observations and experiences. Well, perhaps that’s true, but I think there are stronger reasons... Why would you go to work in another city?

Registration is free, they offer advertising for products related to working away from home, and it lets you decide whether you’re ready to swap or if you’re just looking and preparing for it. Or preparing your bosses, perhaps, because ... do you think the Spanish business community is prepared for an idea like this?

The community has attached a blog in which its founders keep us informed on the latest news and ask for feedback from users. These are their latest questions, which you are invited to answer:

1) What concerns you when you swap with another creative (safety, quality of the home, your own job security...)?

2) Can you think of other ways to use this community? (Swap the whole team, for freelancers ...)?

3) What’s missing on the site? What would you like to know about the creative you’re thinking of swapping with?

Creatives of the world, you know yourselves, it's time to swap!

http://www.swapyourshop.com/

Collective intelligence in order to grow together in the use of new technologies. This is the aim of usuarioscomoyo.com, the platform promoted by Madrid city council and Internet Users Associations. Its goal: to help deal with problems and questions affecting anyone, when it comes to using new technologies, Internet, Telecommunications, Audiovisuals and Videogames. 

Registration is free. The community is backed by suppliers and expert users who help solve problems, and there are forums where people with similar problems can be contacted. On usuarioscomoyo.com, the users generate most of the content.

These frequent consultations generate user guides and FAQs, allowing easy access to basic information. The platform also lets us consult detailed information and statistics to find out about and analyze the effect of the use of new technologies on citizens. Experts, researchers and all those responsible for the development of new technologies have a source of information that provides a direct way of finding out about the problems and real difficulties with which users are faced. 

At "Ask, comment, consult, solve", problems sent to the platform can be grouped together, selected and consulted.  Among those forums that have already been opened on the site are, for example, questions about Excel, browsers, mails, SMS or viruses or useful tips when it comes to unsubscribing as a user or on how to configure a Wi-Fi connection… The platform is complemented with a section on interesting news for users of technology. 

"Search engines and social networks constantly show us how to convert the user’s experience into useful knowledge. As a tool, usuarioscomoyo.com provides us with a way of converting users problems into collective intelligence that helps solve them and our challenge is to adapt it to a world undergoing great change" stated Pérez Subías, the president of AUI, in his presentation. 

The platform asks a big question: How do you answer your technological questions or problems?  Do you wear out your cousin or expert friend? Do you think there are better tools? 

Share it on twitter #dudastecnologicas or add your comment on sharing tools in order to solve technological problems.

http://usuarioscomoyo.com

What would you think of a network with special privileges for women? One where they could, for example, browse through men’s profiles without being seen. They could receive a proposed plan and then decide for themselves, without the man in question being able to contact them.

Well, that’s the idea behind bookioo, the project created in March 2009 by Gonzalo Gómez-Acebo and David Olmos, who saw an opening in the market for contacts and dates, which would help satisfy the demands of numerous female friends. These women complained about being invaded by messages on other networks and of their unreliability.

Bookioo is for women looking for someone special. A real challenge for the many thousands of male users because, as krakken explains, "you distinguish yourself from the rest in terms of, may the best one win". Would this work the other way around?

Upon proposing his plan to thirty-something women with little free time and good incomes, the man shows what he’s like.  After having passed, of course, through an exhaustive filter, carried out by the network itself, which wants to guarantee the reliability of his profile. Will psychologists spend their time teaching men how to successfully pass these kinds of tests?

You have seven days free trial. Later, you can choose between subscribing and maintaining your privacy or using the service free of charge, with your profile being public.

"It’s essential that women feel safe, relaxed and that there’s a good rapport", states the platform. And isn’t there some other way than giving them all the control? What do you think?

http://www.bookioo.com/

Ideas are neither created nor destroyed, they’re transformed. Ideas4all had a grand total of 39,640  ideas when this article was written, that is to say, the number of proposals waiting for someone to develop them, use them, make them useful. Ideas4all is a place to share ideas, problems and solutions:

1.  Where to put ideas: here any ‘ideator’ can share his ideas in an attempt to gain recognition, money or simply make the world a better place. 
 
2.  Where to find solutions:  A ‘Questor’ may be faced at a given time with a problem or an opportunity and come here in search of solutions.

3.  A Navigator can help ensure that good ideas stand out, offer his opinions on them, detect potential problems or simply know lots about them. Because an idea in a drawer isn’t worth anything, and some of the most voted-for in this community (for example: Mira a tu alrededor) have more than 13,000 visits, 778 votes and 108 comments. 

Every problem can generate an idea. Ideas4all is a space where you can interconnect and work together. 

The platform also provides companies with a tool that eases the process of innovation, collecting contributions from clients and consumers. That was the case with BsIdea de Banco Sabadell, a social network set up by this company, which makes it possible to gather and process any ideas, suggestions for improvement and new commercial initiatives generated in any area of the organization.

What kind of proposals can be found on Ideas4all: "Hi everyone. The other day I arrived at class, practically running, and as soon as I stopped I started sweating a bit. It wasn’t a nice situation, and I thought about what I would give to have a deodorant nearby. 

Then it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to put vending machines for (small-sized) deodorants in hubs within a city, like, for example, the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, or at the exits of the main Metro stations"

To be up to date with this community’s newest ideas and contests: 
http://twitter.com/ideas4all
http://blog.ideas4all.com

It’s competing in the 2nd edition of Open Talent. If you think it deserves it, vote for it.
http://www.bbvaopentalent.com/ideas4all/

http://es.ideas4all.com/

When environmental forces are pressing, you have to stop and analyze your own life and be willing to change some habits. Making a thorough list, for two or three months, of what we spend our money on (including the coffee we drink in the bar or chewing gum for the train!) is effective but exhausting, and let’s not fool ourselves, very few of us are capable of doing it.  

For some time now, the Internet has been demonstrating the ability of collective minds to solve problems, needs or everyday issues. It wasn’t long before we saw the appearance of Yunait, a social network that shares information on ways of saving.  

Yunait aims to filter the avalanche of money-saving tips that have flooded the Internet over the past year. As a social network, it’s the consumers themselves who rate the information, publish and evaluate offers and warn us about those that are fraudulent. They also share their experiences on where they shop, how much they save, how prices compare, etc.
 
The network allows advertising of sales, offers, discounts and promotions that can be trusted or which are considered really interesting, which are duly organized in the Offers section. Business is where users compare websites or favourite shops in terms of value for money, while in Advice and Tricks any useful data on savings and finances is accepted. It’s possible to register on Yunait directly from any Facebook account, and activate a system that informs us of new entries that may be of interest to us.  

The platform is a new digital initiative that aims to change the existing relationship between brands and consumers, who have more and more to say. A section is envisaged that will allow brands to advertise their offers. We hope they also know how to make the most of this common knowledge and adapt their marketing strategies to the real needs of society.  

The network was presented at the 2nd Edition of the Open Talent enterprise awards and they’re waiting for your vote if you think the project deserves it.

http://www.yunait.com

Mojitop is the meeting place for mojito lovers all over Barcelona, as well as being a work in progress, which you can contribute to in various ways. 

Started off by four friends in their free time, the light-hearted activity of rating mojitos and exchanging ranking lists and locations, making use of Google tools, soon led to a mojito-loving community, that just keeps on growing: 

"We started with a vengeance in March 2009, and we’ve already rated almost 70 bars. Besides bars, we also include other relevant items, like recipes, how mojitos are drunk in other parts of the world, inventions, etc."

The blog began to attract comments from a wide range of people, to publish more articles on mojito, to build up contacts, until the first mojito-lovers night out was held in the city and a real community was formed. 

In October, mojitop was presented at Urbanlabs, a meeting that takes place to jointly develop and promote the creation of techno-social projects, and plan the next steps.

How can you become a mojiteur? 
Sharing your passion for mojitos through your comments, discovery of new mojito bars, experience or know-how. 

Joining the Barcelona mojito outings: mojito tasting in some of the city’s more emblematic bars. 

Sending them sponsorship ideas. Growth means greater human and economic effort and a simple sustainability plan for the project assures its future to a large degree. Who do you think could be an ideal sponsor? What formula can you come up with for raising money to support the community? If you like mojitos, this could be your way of contributing.
 
Taking advantage of the information discovered by mojitop to be used in other applications, organizations, games… If you happen to have or know of a digital project that might be an interesting way of combining these ideas, just let them know. 

Contribute your own ideas to help the project grow. Perhaps you could startmojitop.com in other cities? Create caipiriiniop.com? Encourage bars to join the quality-mojito club?

Above all, help this project continue to be a good way of making new friends, making the city an experimentation zone and enjoying your favorite drink.

http://www.mojitop.com/

It inspires, imitates, clears any doubts, shares tastes, discovers new trends, Trendtation was born to bring fashion to the people. 

What was once considered a dictatorship: the imposition by the industry of what had to be worn each season, is now thousands of people’s favourite passtime. Why the need for models when we can wear clothes ourselves with much more personality? Trendtation allows people on the street to be the real stars in fashion catalogues. 

The community was presented by its founder, Marc Roure, at the October edition of Cava&Twitts, Barcelona’s Twitter convention, the place to be for vertical communities. Above all, he explained, Trendtation wants to be useful. A place to meet image consultants who help members choose clothes that bring out the best in them or lend them that touch of chic or craziness they were looking for. 

Trendtation is also a social network where you can share your favourite brands and clothes shops with friends. Their devotion to some of them results in their becoming fans and adding comments. Not only clothing brands, but also footwear and accessories, independent designers and boutiques in different cities. 

As fashion dictates, the styles developed by their users may be published in Must!, the online fashion and lifestyle magazine. Although, it’s not necessary to leave the community in order to enjoy the good ideas shared by its members in pictures … or unfortunate ideas that we can learn from. 

And now that you know all about Trendtation, don’t just sit around with folded arms. Take part by addng your own style ideas, think and decide what the next trend should be. If you’re lost for ideas, have a look at the Las modernas profile and amuse yourself with their comic take on things. You can also follow them on twitter, facebook and myspace.

http://es.trendtation.com/

Spain had the ‘Madrid movement’, based on counterculture and the underground, which arrived to set the nights on fire during the 80s. The ‘ruta del Bakalao’ saw the beginning of the club scene in Valencia: weekends of dancing and drugs. The Sonar festival, in Barcelona, has been concentrating clubbers into three days and a tent since 1994. Today, to plan your night, you need to be part of the clubcanalla network, a community that will change your life.

If you’re a victim of your imagination, if the party’s inside you… you’re obviously one of the most desired undesirables: dandies, bloody countesses, teddy bears, insatiable party-goers, with runny mascara, operated, smelling of whisky, electrocuted, heirs…

Their party chronicles speak of mass gatherings, following the call of the tribe, of girls pulling off t-shirts next to a mischievous Nacho Vidal, of singers, DJs, writers, journalists, actresses, porn directors, of cabaret and simultaneous on-stage orgasms, while the director of Primera Línea and founder of the Club, Guillermo Hernaiz, thanks the entire rabble for having come and gives the green light to go wild. 

Clubcanalla.com is a site for people who know how to have fun and want to cross boundaries, as well as affirming themselves. A smart combination: a social network to chat others up without limits, and party after party to see their faces, or whatever they’ll let you, live. As Cuore remarks: "Some have travelled just to meet other members the ones they chat with every day or the porn actress blogger who they usually leave saucy comments". 

What can happen you if sign up? 
Free access to sessions, passes for VIP area or exclusive parties and free drinks.
Erotic mini-parties with the best stripers and actors/actresses of the moment.
Backstage with the most hardcore DJs of the night.
Dinners with your favourite x-rated actor and actress.
Celebrate your birthday with DJ, show and drinks.
Casting sessions for canalla reporters.
Canalla tours or trips to the wildest clubs in the most important party cities in Spain.

And if you’d rather remain in a virtual state, clubcanalla’s blogs on the same hot themes as usual. An example? Girls who do it a lot are sluts, the thorny theme of the 21st century.

http://www.clubcanalla.com

They say that truth is on the inside but it can’t be argued that Etsy’s intricate presentation will even make you want your grandmother’s crocheted bibs. For example, you can choose a treat for yourself or a gift by colour. Impressive eh?  You can also choose from recently sold items, ones that haven’t been discovered yet or those selected as favourites. 

Etsy is an online market of anything handmade that is taking the Internet by storm. The key? A good project and the participation of its users. 

As genbeta tell us on their blog, "the best thing about this virtual store is that it follows various principles of so-called web 2.0": classification by tags and their fabulous toolbox, although it also cringes about the number of geeks who are living out their wildest dreams on this website. 
 
Etsy works by setting up a personal shop. The service provides you with a domain, banners and allows you to personalize your page. 

1. You have to pay for every object being sold, which is shown for four months. 
2. Etsy verifies payments and financial transactions and charges 3.5% of the value of each sale. The supplier is responsible for shipments and inventory. 

But what’s really making Etsy famous is the community that it’s managed to create around it. "Word of mouth publicity and personal blogs are the main ways that this online store has become popular", explains elwebmaster, which adds: "Etsy is a major business that has earned more than $30 million since starting up. Its approximately 1,600 international vendors come predominantly from the United Kingdom and Europe, with some participants in Canada and Australia. Sixty-seven different countries participate and 97% of the managers are women. The most popular languages used besides English are German, Spanish and French. Most of them prefer to receive the money for their crafts through PayPal."

"I for example, explains chic o chuc, came upon a little shop yesterday, called Chichi's Color Zone ("olé" for the name!) which I loved. And today when I was going to buy myself quite a cute dress, at a good price (50 euro)… … I discovered that they have so many accumulated orders that they’ve had to close their Etsy shop temporarily. They promise that they’ll be taking orders again in no time." 

Etsy is mainly promoted by its own members and followers (Do you know http://twitter.com/vintageBCN?). At present it’s one of the most popular Twitter Groups.

http://www.etsy.com

What for many people is a problem, the language barrier, is like the chicken that laid the golden eggs for busuu.com, or at least its pot of chickpeas. 

Busuu.com is a language learning community. A combination of learning resources and well-meaning users to correct you through an exchange of skills… and friendship, if you happen to get on well.
 
Its founders, Adrian y Bernhard, both polyglots, fed up of "putting up for ourselves with the traditional system of teaching-learning of foreign languages, a system we consider expensive, difficult and boring", decided to create this start-up for learning languages through multimedia programmes and linguistic exchanges. 

Their main ideas:
• Learn directly from your companions by means of video-chat: Internet users are also natives.
 
• 150 learning and grammar units, with images and sound, for English, French, Spanish and German.

• The freemium model: busuu.com is free. A Premium User can also, for a small monthly charge, make use of additional learning tools and Premium content.

To avoid one of the great dangers of Internet, dispersion or boredom caused by lack of clear objectives, busuu base their model on the metaphor of the garden of languages, full of trees of knowledge that help you to distinguish between what has been learnt and your own ignorance. And it should work because they’ve been endorsed by centuries of wisdom: the tree of knowledge of good and evil is one of the trees of Paradise, mentioned in the Book of Genesis, whose fruit was forbidden by God, the only one able to discern between both values, according to the Bible.

In bussu, you just have to present your homework to the community so that its members are the ones who decide if your work is good or bad. Everyone can correct the exercises of others, share their questions or start a videoconference. 

You can use busuu only as a learning platform: register and choose those modules that best meet your needs, but… if you study English and someone else Spanish… why not get in touch and help each other mutually? 

In Christina Clark’s experience using the platform, she hasn’t always found someone useful on the other end, very often members just want to chat each other up, and perhaps you won’t end up dominating a language through using busuu, but you can certainly learn vocabulary, even if it’s just for having a coffee!

http://www.busuu.com/es

"It’s a question of discipline, the little prince told me later.  After finishing our morning hygiene, we have to clean the planet with the greatest care."  In fact the little prince couldn’t let baobabs grow in his little universe because they would bore through it with their roots and they would split it in pieces.

On planet Earth, a baobab –the tree planted upside down- makes man stronger, or at least that’s what they believe in Africa. It certainly helps him to survive. 

Tree-nation is a community that supports planting trees for a better world. The goal is to see trees growing in the poorest countries on the planet, so as to regenerate the land, to feed local communities with their fruit, to protect and increase all kinds of fauna and to reduce carbon emissions. 

Today there are three projects aiming to cultivate the seeds of world eco-awareness, in order to fight global warming: 

- Planting 8 million trees in the Niger desert.
- Improving the availability of drinking water for rural communities in  Nicaragua. 
- Reforesting the degraded land of communities in Madagascar. 

These large-scale plantations are managed through the community’s global online participation, thus ensuring transparency, confidence and vitality.  Each tree planted in Niger is also planted on the virtual map:  Watch your tree grow and get stronger!

Buying trees for the good of the planet is the new global fashion, and already counts on a growing community of eco-supporters who either plant or give their friends Senegalese acacias (7 €) or adansonia digitatas (65€). For 200 euro you can create a forest and if you want to do more you can become a top planter or top recruiter. 

If you’re a business, tree-nation makes it easy for you, by offering you diverse sustainable forms of association that benefit both.  A personalized campaign combined with a particular project, like the launch of a new product, a program to fight CO2, a gift tree for clients and employees... 

By registering, you contribute to the UN programme Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign.

If you like this community, spread the word.

http://www.tree-nation.com/spread-the-word

The Sphere, better known as the Facebook of the millionaires, is a private club of 400 members, so far, out of 6,000 proposed candidacies. It requires a truly luxurious lifestyle, and not a fat pocket -how vulgar-, to be accepted by the strict selection committee: frequenting top hotels and restaurants, VIP areas...  –and, as I said, frequenting, not demonstrating. 

And what does it offer the contenders in exchange for being scrutinized by a whole host of questions on their lifestyle or possessions, and 3,000 euros per year? The satisfaction of all their desires. Renting a mansion in Scotland, a private jet to a party in the middle of the desert, getting a made-to-measure suit in Milan... at exclusive prices. 

Because members of this club benefit from privileged conditions when using high-quality services: a personalised welcome at top hotels (what does that mean exactly?), the best place on trips and transfers, and of course from 20 to 30% discount in prices - the rich are human too. 

Big-time financiers, sportsmen, artists, top models and communicators all share their holiday snaps and a desire to be exclusively surrounded by people like themselves on this "social luxury network ", to geo-locate themselves, thus enabling encounters and who knows what else. 

Do you dare to stand as a multimillionaire? What would happen in a club that doesn’t know how to recognize an impostor among its own kind? Would they suspect the other wealthy members? Would they get a Google streetview car to follow them exclusively? Special cameras in the luxury palaces with a visit counter?  Try your hand at being a millionaire. When all is said and done, you can’t lose any more than the 3,000 euro admittance fee.

http://www.the-sphere.com

So you like cinema?  Filmutea puts you in the spotlight: makeup and hair styling, sound and music, extras, castings and agents, locations, festivals, publishing, new talents… Take charge of your own career. 

Filmutea launches a fashionable new format: a glocal network (global and local), having already created a database of people, over time and with great effort, all connected in some way to the seventh art. In fact the format that today aims to reach internet users, a vertical community interested in a given theme, is no more than the next technological step in satisfying an old need: getting connected professionally. 

In the past, using a distribution list, you could subscribe to the subjects you were interested in and every week you’d receive a mail with offers of work, collaboration or professional contacts, an advance at the time. 

In fact, in some sectors it’s still being discussed whether it makes sense to change format with each new technological advance. If a forum works… why change it? Would current users be lost or would new ones be gained?  Do you need to have a fashionable format to attract new interest in a subject?  Or do social networks come along to change things?  Those are just a few of the many questions…

As they rightly say at Cava&Twitts, social networks don’t do any more than increase the circle of people who you can make contact with, but you are always there behind. Not in vain, many people wonder: What does a "friend" in a community mean?


Filmutea’s long experience allows them to offer a Pro service to advanced professionals who have put part of their daily management functions on Internet: the publication of events and job offers, contact between users, a directory. 

Of course it also has a widget so you can complement your website or blog with offers, RSS subscription to the bulletin itself, blogs, interest groups and work teams. Check out their Indie Channel. You may be surprised!

http://es.filmutea.com/

What if behind a community there’s someone negotiating good prices and exclusive offers? This simple idea is the one behind Tucasaclub, subtitled, in fact, "The web for real life", well, of course, we’ve spent enough time hanging around with our heads in the clouds!

To show that things are taken very seriously here, in a flash a pretty assistant gives a warm welcome to the visitors and greets them into the community, with a final kiss thrown in. And its here to stay: if you check the foot of the page, you can see that the large domestic consumer brands like the idea.
 
Tucasaclub is the next step on the Internet. Sharing recipes, cleaning or decoration tips is rewarded here. There are no lack of items to help you carry out tasks and good suggestions are selected for you. But to take full advantage of this proposal, you should become part of the club. 

Subscribing gives you the right to enjoy real benefits: promotions and discounts and prizes to be won. It also allows you to create your own casaclub space, begin to create it, in fact, because this option is still not completely developed.

This community is the virtual equivalent of the classic meetings with housewives, organized intermittently by brands in order to get their opinions on diverse products in exchange for gifts and promotions. On the Internet, with various brands represented, we all win.

This model is going to make a heavy impact. So will the users also grab the power?  What would happen if they grouped together and suggested a base figure, of say 5,000 buyers, but only if prices were adjusted to one that the users were willing to pay?  That’s the idea here!

http://tucasaclub.com

Being part of a professional community is in fashion, so choose a profession... and jump on the bandwagon. It’s very easy.  Just tell everyone who you are, what you do, get in touch with your acquaintances, as well as a few strangers who grab your attention, to show that you’re really open. Later on, you can add to your business card that you’re a member of comofardo.com or miramequechuliguay.com or whatever network you like and you’re all set make your introductions.  

In fact, since free platforms were set up to create social networks, like ning or elgg, we’re witnessing an explosion of virtual professional communities who would like to share know-how and get to know professional associates. Some work better than others, it all remains to be seen.  

bitsprnet, the community for professionals from the world of communication, has already chalked up over 2,000 members but...  shouldn’t one expect more of a communicator? Yes, of course. That they’d pull the wool over our eyes with their pretty words: the conversations in the various theme groups, however, are rather short monologues. That they’d kill to appear in a photo: well, they’re actually quite restrained. That they’d master a range of techniques: I’m sorry if you’re expecting anything else than an informative tone...  Why don’t they loosen their ties and share something more than just news?  

If you’re going to be part of a virtual professional network, I’d encourage you to ask whatever you want, enjoy yourself among colleagues and try and share, learn and have a little fun: the network is yours.  Suggest initiatives, experiments and ideas to the community. Ask questions, show interest, it’s the ideal place to get involved in lively discussions, be a little irreverent.  In fact...  where are the jokes about professionals? Have we become so "politically correct"?  Or perhaps you just don’t bite the hand that feeds?

http://www.bitspr.net

In the spirit of social networks that allow you to stay in touch with friends and professional colleagues, Genoom is here to help you strengthen the ties with your family and draw your genealogical tree.

Add relatives to your network or send them invites so that they can provide their own information. You can always define the degree of separation that defines who is not considered a family member any more and therefore cannot access the data and media shared on the network.

Be on top of birthdays, celebrations and events, create photo albums and exchange messages. Genoom also lets you place your family on maps and export your genealogical tree to different formats. The project targets the international community, so it is available in over a dozen languages.

If you organize your social life through online networks or you have tried to trace your family origins in the past but didn't make it very far, Genoom wants to become the tool that will let you preserve and share memories and bring together different generations online.

text: Laura García Barrio

http://www.genoom.com

We all felt sick at a time and wanted to have access to more information regarding that disease. We usually ask people around us, but most of them have never suffered that disease. Well, there is always someone who’s gone through the same.

Patientslikeme has the information and expertise.

Their goal is helping patients diagnosed with life-changing diseases by sharing information through partnerships with doctors, pharmaceutical companies, research organizations, and non-profits. They transmit experience and encourage patients trying to control their sickness and improve their lives.

http://www.patientslikeme.com

Facebook, Hi5 or Googles’ Maka Maka are the classic example of virtual community.

However, in the last months there are appearing new and diverse virtual communities highly specialized that use all the potential of web 2.0 to share experiences and knowledge around very concrete areas.

Colorlovers is one of those sites. Its social network goes about colours. Users are permanently updated about new trend in colour appliances for graphic design, architecture, motion effects, etc.

Users can also create pallets that Colorlovers index for others to use. If we add the option of interchanging information with other users, comment their pallets, interchange works/images with and specific colour, articles from specialist, plus the possibility of downloading those pallets into almost any program, the resulting is a extremely useful community for anyone with a colour on their mind.

http://www.colourlovers.com