Web-based communities are very social and dynamic places and they
changed from online chat rooms to forums, rings of personal web pages
and the social networks as the newest type of community. In each
community you must first join in and introduce yourself - who are you,
where are you from, what are you doing, what are your interests, maybe
your picture, etc...These is called your Profile and generally, this is
your personal home page in community.
Each community has it's own specific representation of profile, but the
standard denominator across all the major web-based communities is a
category-based representation of a person’s broad interests, with the
most common categories as music, books, movies, television, sports, and
food. Within each interest category, users are generally unrestricted
in their input, but typically enumerate lists of items or links or, in
last time, put multimedia widgets which could be produced by community
or outside.
So, by profile categories mentioned above you can find affinities with other profiles and communicate with them. Next important thing is that
some surveys find that more than 70% online communities members consider to be in 2-5 online communities.
And that's that. We are now just where we want to be. In profile
representation in one community you can present your profile (with
links, pictures, widgets, whatever) in other online community. And, if
you're active in community (a lot of posts, surveys, uploads, comments,
friends, etc...) other members will watch your profile and, also, link
to your other activities, pages, profiles.
So, be active and communicate! ;-)
Btw, some of my profiles: MySpace Profile, YouTube Profile, TagWorld Profile, Technorati Profile, Flixya Profile, Senserely profile, Yuwie profile, PageFlakes profile.
Also, I'm inviting you to check My Apsense Business Page (it's a kind of profile).