Hi,

I would suggest a company called Yomego up in Scotland. I would be interested to know your details and could put you in touch with the right person if you like?

Thanks

Matt

On 10:11:29 15 August 2008 Consultant wrote:

Please can someone recommended where I can purchase a virtual social networking software template online.
Or
And if I do find one online,iin reference to the above software)
Does anyone one know of an agency who specialise in this field who can help me customise the above software template in the UK to my requirements
Or
Does anyone know of an agency  who specialise in this field UK who can assist me with an ideal solution, less than 10K budget..

Agency contact need to be London based !

Any suggestions will be great

Cheers x

Ref:  Project Elan

This may sound like a naive question, but what do you actually mean by a 'virtual networking template'?

Apart from the bigger question of 'does the world NEED or WANT yet another social networking platform (you are thinking of entering a market which is about to consolidate), there are a few aspects that you might be considering:

1) Are you looking for someone to simply produce a UI design for you? In which case what are you going to power it with?

2) Are you hoping to use something like NING as the engine behind your application?

3) Are you looking to buy a FaceBook clone 'of the shelf' or even as 'open source' and then customise it?

4) Do you believe that someone is going to create a complete social networking site for you for under 10k ?

Personally I wouldn't do any of the above, but I am interested in what your question really is?

I have lost count of how many people have contacted us asking for an eCademy clone with a budget of circa £5k. When we stop laughing and wipe away the tears we always ask the same question... "Why would you want to build that?"

My reply to you: Ed Stivala
You really should not have been so rude !!

You will not be getting my project brief fo sure !
 
I wont dream of wasting your so called precious time - havn't you got anything better do to, than log online here and pass on RUDE COMMENTS !
Whoever you are - or company - you give this industry a bad name  

What is  so wrong in asking a question online on this forum  ?
 
Go on - keep having a GO! at everyone's expense - and you find your giving yourself a BAD NAME here online ! Go right ahead ! 

My questions was not directed at you/or your so called company directly
:
So do everyone a big  favour online here.. and keep your RUDE REMARKS TO YOUR SELF IN FUTURE.. You dont't own this forum .

I was hoping to get in you with Professional Experts in this field:Social Networking"  and from the tone of your email - you dont fall under that category ! 

I hope I've made myself clear in reference to my ad posting ! 
_________________________________________________________

Ed Stivala

This may sound like a naive question, but what do you actually mean by a 'virtual networking template'?

Apart from the bigger question of 'does the world NEED or WANT yet another social networking platform (you are thinking of entering a market which is about to consolidate), there are a few aspects that you might be considering:

1) Are you looking for someone to simply produce a UI design for you? In which case what are you going to power it with?

2) Are you hoping to use something like NING as the engine behind your application?

3) Are you looking to buy a FaceBook clone 'of the shelf' or even as 'open source' and then customise it?

4) Do you believe that someone is going to create a complete social networking site for you for under 10k ?

Personally I wouldn't do any of the above, but I am interested in what your question really is?

I have lost count of how many people have contacted us asking for an eCademy clone with a budget of circa £5k. When we stop laughing and wipe away the tears we always ask the same question... "Why would you want to build that?"

I know of one but i do not know if it's still avalable.  Get in touch in a couple of weeks (on holidays now) and I'll see what i can do.

regards,

Denis
www.naxtech.com

Hello consultant, Ed and inigomedia

I thought I would make my first jump on the e-consultancy forum, as the solutions that Webjam provide might be relevant to the discussion.

Consultant, I also think it would be helpful if you could refine your requirements a bit more: what do you mean by virtual? are you thinking MMORPG, avatars, etc...? Are you looking to build your own social network as an end-goal, or are you looking to support your brand/project with a customised social network? Which internal resources are you willing to allocate for maintenance once the site is up and running?

It might be that Webjam can provide the solution that you are looking for, so I will include a quick explanation of what we do here, but it might be off-topic if you are thinking of something virtual, a la Second Life, as we dont do that (yet)! I would be very interested in your feedback, as well as feedback from readers of this thread, as we are currently in the process of defining and trialing the offering.

Webjam provides a platform for individuals or brands to create their own social networks. While Webjam offers some similar functionalities to Ning in terms of customised social networks, there is one dimension that makes Webjam unique: the concept of replication or templates, so that any brand or organisation can easily manage a “network of social networks”.

If you are curious to find out more , the theory is explained here in a blog post from our CEO Yann, and you can also see an example from one of our partners, the free London magazine The Other Side. The Other Side supports their offline publication with an online community on Webjam, and they are also starting to create channels around specific topics, like arts galleries, for which they have built a specific template that any art gallery can replicate and start a webjam from.

Other examples of custom social networks on Webjam include Yamaha music education http://www.yamahaeducation.co.uk/ or Zone Mag Music event http://www.musiclearninglive2009.net

In terms of cost, our free service allows you to create and manage as many webjams as you want, then our paid Premium and Branded Services can offer you more branding and customisation options if necessary.

We are based in London, let me know if you want to meet up for a chat. Good luck with your project!

Sonia

On 09:39:02 18 August 2008 inigomedia wrote:

Ed actually raises some very valid points.  Not the most diplomatically put Ed, but very reasonable.

There are a huge amounts of social platforms out there and a lot of them duplicate what Facebook, MySpace, etc., do much, but the big guys do it so much better.

It would probably be worth taking Ed's advice in that you need to be certain of the following:

1) That your core market is going to be willing to use yet another social networking site.

2) That the amount you plan to invest is going to be enough to acheive your short term objectives.

3) That you have enough money in the medium term to keep up with some of the major developments in other platforms (links to other technologies, mash ups with Google, MySpace, etc.)

4) Most important of all - if you are going to be able to measure the success of the new platform either in terms of users and user enjoyment or in terms of monetizing (making money out of it).

In our experience, it's best to go with what works elsewhere, such as seeing if your market will use social networking on one of the main social sites, then asking them what they think about it.

From there you can work out whether you want to contribute to that experience in the form of a Facebook App (for example) or go on to do the necessary research for building your own Social Networking site.

Please make sure that you've done the former before you try the latter!

All the best in the social sphere.

Dan

On 15:14:08 17 August 2008 Consultant wrote:

My reply to you: Ed Stivala
You really should not have been so rude !!

You will not be getting my project brief fo sure !
 
I wont dream of wasting your so called precious time - havn't you got anything better do to, than log online here and pass on RUDE COMMENTS !
Whoever you are - or company - you give this industry a bad name  

What is  so wrong in asking a question online on this forum  ?
 
Go on - keep having a GO! at everyone's expense - and you find your giving yourself a BAD NAME here online ! Go right ahead ! 

My questions was not directed at you/or your so called company directly
:
So do everyone a big  favour online here.. and keep your RUDE REMARKS TO YOUR SELF IN FUTURE.. You dont't own this forum .

I was hoping to get in you with Professional Experts in this field:Social Networking"  and from the tone of your email - you dont fall under that category ! 

I hope I've made myself clear in reference to my ad posting ! 
_________________________________________________________

Ed Stivala

This may sound like a naive question, but what do you actually mean by a 'virtual networking template'?

Apart from the bigger question of 'does the world NEED or WANT yet another social networking platform (you are thinking of entering a market which is about to consolidate), there are a few aspects that you might be considering:

1) Are you looking for someone to simply produce a UI design for you? In which case what are you going to power it with?

2) Are you hoping to use something like NING as the engine behind your application?

3) Are you looking to buy a FaceBook clone 'of the shelf' or even as 'open source' and then customise it?

4) Do you believe that someone is going to create a complete social networking site for you for under 10k ?

Personally I wouldn't do any of the above, but I am interested in what your question really is?

I have lost count of how many people have contacted us asking for an eCademy clone with a budget of circa £5k. When we stop laughing and wipe away the tears we always ask the same question... "Why would you want to build that?"