The Maze

If you've been using Facebook, Twitter and Flickr etc..then you've got some idea of the fun you can have social networking. And while those are pretty mainstream sites do you know about Newsvine, Twiki and Socializr? Or how about Yelp, magnify.net, or Swurl? And what do you do with all this possibilty?

There are so many Web 2.0 thingys coming on line these days that is can be overwhelming to see how they all fit together. A graphic view of the WEB 2.0 social network world might help and as with everything else on the web if you think of it -- it's probably out there somewhere. Posted below is a fantastic graphic from a fellow blogger named Brian Solis which shows you a fairly current matrix of cool web services. The graphic called The Conversation breaks the services into their categories and thereby gives you at least a feel for the larger context of what's happening out there. It's easy to Google social networking or look it up on Wikipedia, but you don't really appreciate the breadth of what's happening until you see The Conversation.

For the non-profit world, many of these technologies offer various ways to connect with your stakeholders and create new ones, but it helps to have a context to see them. So for today just click the graphic for a larger view and see the matrix. I'm also adding links from these categories in the link section of Intuitech.biz to make it usable. Have fun and be careful out there..don't get lost :).