Community profile as marketing tool

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).