On the heels of my earlier social media post I discovered that Michael Arrington at TechCrunch posted about Wikia doing a Facebook and creating college/university specific Wikis. He points to the Stanford Wiki (Berkeley doesn’t have one yet).
If you look at the Stanford site, you’ll see prominently displayed:
Life is More than Studying
- How Bad is the Food on Campus – don’t be shy!
- Events Board, Regular Events, Events Calendars
- Ways to Eat for Free
- Entertainment, Night Time, Music Scene, The Arts
- Study Spots, Outdoor Activities
- Volunteer Opportunities, Memorials
- Photos
- Good Ideas For Dates, Singles Scene
- Greek life
- Sports, Gyms, Self Defense
- Art Galleries, Town Art, Local Artists
- Shopping Centers, Hair Cuts and Salons, Clothing Stores, Thrift Stores
- Living Cheaply, Student Discounts, Classified Ads
- Bathrooms, Laundry & Drycleaning
- Medical Services, Social Services, Spiritual Organizations, Tax Services
- Parenting
- Jobs
- Wish List
The local-commercial implications of this list of links are immediately apparent.
Only those with a dot-edu address can edit, but everyone can see (unlike Facebook until last week) the content. College students control something like $175 billion in annual consumer spending. So if these sites take off, it becomes a big deal for local consumers and businesses potentially.
October 6, 2006 at 1:29 pm |
[...] “….My former colleague Greg Sterling pointed out on his blog today that a similar concept will make college atmospheres ripe for local commercial monetization through social media such as wikis. Social networking (a branch of, but not to be confused with the more broad, social media) has already proven to resonate among college students with the popular Facebook. [...]