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Here’s a chance for Corporate Ireland to use Social Networking, by joining MyRagan.com, “the meeting place for communicators from around the world. ”

You can use the site to:

–Find communicators who share your interests;
–Create real and virtual networking groups–even groups in your own hometown;
–Solve problems and answer tough questions about your job;
–Query Ragan editors and management about any issue of your choosing;
– Download free reports on everything from Social Media to measurement.

For anyone in Ireland involved in International Trade or Services,  this could be a network worth joining. While at first the membership appears to be U.S.A. based, I soon found members from Australia, Denmark, The U.K and with only 13 members from Ireland, this is an underutilized tool here.

Joining was easy, and building your profile is straight forward, I even recognized an Irish member

I managed to get an invite to join Yabb (beta), a new Social Network project by Bebo co-founder, Paul Birch. According to Yabb, “yabb lets you talk more and type less by connecting you with people and topics you’re interested in”

How it works

1. Find a conversation topic of interest to you
2. Pick someone with interesting thoughts who has joined that topic
3. Send them a call request by ‘asking them to Skype you’

They can now call you over Skype. While you wait, you can join other topics, add your thoughts and send more call requests.

Information above taken from About Yabb © 2008 yabb ltd

You can sign-up to register your interest and they’ll mail you once they’re accepting more participants.

I spent an hour on the site after joining and I liked what I saw. It’s not what people are familiar with, if you spend time on sites like Facebook, you will find Yabb far less distracting. It’s very slimmed down, so it does the job it was made for very well.

I was able to get to grips with it very quickly and I’ll be putting it on my list of sites I visit daily.
I see a huge potential for Yabb in 2008.

There is also a short interview with Paul Birch, by Paul Walsh in his blog.

P.S. Thanks Paul Walsh for making it easy to post to my blog today.

The Irish Times has awarded (edit:) Featured Paul Walsh, (the Irish Opportunist), in “The Best Blog Of The Week” for his Personal Blog.

Update: I just read on Paul’s blog that ” It was featured in Blogspot of the week, which I’m just as happy with.” Even so, the rest of my post stands.

I’ve been a regular reader of Paul’s personal and business blogs for many months and I’m delighted to see him get recognition for something he does very well.

If you have an interest in Social Media, Web 2.0 or Ireland in 2008, this is a blob blog to check in on daily.

More good news for companies making Facebook applications.

“SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it has closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding market leader Facebook’s wave of popularity.”

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I really like the trend I’m seeing with Facebook, still my Social Network site of choice .. if only people would stop sending me invites to applications I don’t want.