.Net magazine features BrightLemon article: how to "Build your own social network"

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Build your own social network - Leon Tong

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Our director Leon Tong has a six page feature "Build your own social network" in .Net magazine

Download the full article here.

Outlining how bespoke social networks engage users and grow traffic, the article explains how to create an effective and engaging digital community. Leon discusses in detail the strategy and considerations required for a successful social network including relevant social theories, technical aspects, and key steps to build a 100,000+ user social network.

The article is an insight into a book Leon is writing on the populairty of digital social networks and how key social theories explain why we form the groups that we do - both offline and online.

.NET Magazine Facts
  • First issue: 1994
  • Editor: Dan Oliver 
  • Print circulation: 16,641
  • Distribution: Global 
  • Website: www.netmag.co.uk

About .Net magazine

.Net is the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers, featuring tutorials from leading agencies, interviews with the web’s biggest names, and agenda-setting features on the hottest issues affecting the internet today. The article is featured in the April 2012 edition (#226) and is available in all major magazine and newspaper outlets.

We can't feature the entire article here until it's off the newsagent's shelves but if you want to read it in more detail get April's copy of .Net magazine now...! 

Related links

.Net website - www.netmagazine.com

.Net April 2012 (#226) preview - www.netmagazine.com/shop/magazines/april-2012-226

The Social Giants: the popularity of social networks explained by 2,000 years of research - http://brightlemon.com/blog/social-giants-popularity-social-networks-explained-2000-years-research
 
Presentation: How to grow your customerbase by 120,000 - http://www.scribd.com/doc/35973257/brightlemon-BTSW
 
 
.NET article download "Build your own social network" - http://brightlemon.com/files/NET226.feat_social1.pdf

About BrightLemon

We combine expertise in social psychological theory, open source software and user centric design to produce high growth, engaging, personalised communities. We have done this for Amnesty International, the British Councilthe Department for EducationFujitsuGreater London Authoritythe Tate ModernUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of LondonViacom International Media Networks (Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon) and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

 

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