Often when thinking of professional social networks, LinkedIn springs to mind. LinkedIn was recently evaluated at $1 billion based on its Series D funding. Their main source of revenue is subscription, jobs, sponsorships and membership fee.

Check out the Kwiqq team on LinkedIn

Similarly other social networks which deal with business/professionals in mind have sprung up:

Bighsight.org: It provides business users with a public professional homepage. The site looks nice and simple and the functionality is spot on, designers with flare for web 2ish designs will definitely like it. Example

YouNoodle: Strange name for a professional social network , its a professional to showcase startups/entrepreneurs. Example

Another social network which is different in the professional/recruitment social network field is Bluefuse.biz developed by Higham’s Group and us at Kwiqq.  Higham PLC are a specialist insurance recruitment agency.

Bluefuse.biz is designed to help candidates with getting a job. These candidates tend to be executives: CIOs, CTOs etc contract or permanent. It is a invitation only network, so candidates have to be invited to join the network.

Profile:

Once they are on the network, they have access to exclusive jobs

Industry News:

Further Higham’s consultants are available on the network who can improve core job related skills (through skype). Plus the opportunity to network with other users who might know a job to match your skillset or advice to improve our CV.

Recruitment agencies have a massive opportunity in the web 2.0 space. It really is upto the agencies to make the jump. I found an article on recruitment and social network from Dave Pye, CEO of Highams:

“In today’s social world you’ve got to take a risk and if you build a good community and serve it well, you should feel the benefit, too.”

Thoughts of Jack Fairhall, CEO Kwiqq:

“A lot of recruiters are looking at the concept and trying to figure out what they should do,” he says. “Your own social network pushes the brand and allows those in the sector to connect and communicate with each other.”

Tags: Professional, social network, linkedin, bigsight, younoodle, bluefuse, highams

Kwiqq has been commissioned by Finerday Ltd to build a social website for grandparents to keep in touch through email, text and video call. Sneak Preview

Finerday is working with Age Concern for the week long Silver Surfer Campaign. Finerday are also supported by the following partners:

At Kwiqq we are glad to be part of this truly unique opportunity. We feel this a good application of how social networking is useful for people from varied backgrounds. Our focus will be to make the site as usable for the target audience as possible. We are operating very closely with Finerday team and their expertise in working with older people to make the experience seamless for users.

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Tags: finerday, age concern, microsoft, sun, intel, social network

They say its always good to keep your site looking fresh. We have just done that and re-branded our website. Here is how it looks, Kwiqq V2:

We have made the site, so that users can really quickly browse through the Features of the Kwiqq Framework:

And see our client sites as screen shots at a click of a button:

This new site reflects the upgrade of our software. Kwiqq.com is built on Symfony as well, which is what Kwiqq Version2 is all about.

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Tags: KwiqqV2, Symfony, Ajax, Clients

Let me give you a quick over view of Voxswap. The site is still in its early stages and allows users to learn a new language with the help of the community.

There are chat, search features so you can quickly find people who can help you out and have a conversation. The site is targeted at languages hence there is a virtual keyboard for users to type all accents.

What in my mind is the USP (Unique Selling Point) of Voxswap ? I think its the attitude to KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid. The site is kept simple and the focus is to learn a language in a fun way. No silly unnecessary tools: pokes, super walls, vampire bites etc. Things like drag and drop mechanism to build your profile.

The site is not even a week old and already there are 225 users on it.

The site is powered by Kwiqq. We have gone through months of upgrade to build version 2 of our software. Voxswap is our first website in this series. Kwiqq V2 is built on Symfony.

Symfony is an open source PhP framework developed over several years. What I really like about Symfony is its:

1. Enterprise ready: Hence it allows us to scale as the community grows.
2. Built in Ajax: We can quickly deploy Ajax features for our clients
3. Clean code: I love the modular code and MVC model symfony follows
4. Open Source: This allows us not only to access the wider open source development community but also to give something back

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Tags: Voxswap, Learn Language, Kwiqq V2, Symfony, Open Source