Category Archives: Whuffie

You may be a community freeloader if you…

[re-posted from HorsePigCow]
q: What do you call someone who joins communities, adds friends and generally uses social networking tools to promote their own interests solely?
a: a community freeloader
Now, promoting your interests within a community isn’t a bad thing, per se. Having strong networks of people is a great advantage to furthering your causes, getting advice, […]

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3 Ways to Raise Social Capital

For those of you who are concerned with the possibility of raising your own Social Capital, it’s pretty simple, really. There are three major ways to do it and they all intersect:

Be Nice
Be Notable
Be Networked

The Spread Love Project is firmly rooted in the first, Be Nice, because in the world of community, nice guys (and […]

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Social Capitalists

From Wikipedia:

Social capital is a core concept in business, economics, organizational behaviour, political science, and sociology, defined as the advantage created by a person’s location in a structure of relationships. “By analogy with physical capital and human capital - tools and training that enhance human productivity - the core idea of social capital theory is […]

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