Are Social Networks Competitive Enough To Join In Linking Eyes To Find Missing Children?

Let's start with a couple of fundamental things:
1. Social networks are all the rage, right now. That's obvious. And that's good. The easiest thing to find on the Internet is a social network which matches your most cherished interests.

2. Of necessity, social networking companies such as Linkedin, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, FriendFeed, Plaxo, (+ Yahoo, Google, & Microsoft), etc., MUST be competitive - else they wither and die.

If there is an abundance of social networks and if social networks are of necessity competitive, is it possible to borrow some of that competitiveness, the weight they carrry, their power, the force they wield on and off the Web to do something good - even as we're conducting our primary focus? Even as we're trying to earn a living?

For example, though I'm primarily a Recruiter & Social Media Coach, one of my most important social networking interests is this: "Linking Eyes To Find Missing Children"

So, I wonder and I wonder and I wonder: Is it possible to use a ring of social networks to help find missing children?

Think about it: Even if all the largest, smallest, and in-between social networks on the web found only 1 child in the next year, it would be far better than all these super-large social networks finding not a single child.

Imagine that with 365 days a year and millions upon millions of searching eyeballs, what it could mean to the possibilities of finding a child or two or three or four or more?

I don't know about you but, I'd feel awfully good if social media could lend its vast power to doing a little bit of good - even in the midst of our socializing.

Television has done it.

Radio has done it.

Newspapers have done it.

Billboards have done it.

Even milk cartons have done it.

Why not social media networks?

Because I believe you can learn a lot about social media by linking eyes to find missing children it could also be educational for YOU.

With the above in mind, to give a bit of an idea of the Linking Eyes To Find Missing Children ring of social media sites, I've set up sites at the following 17 places:

http://mylinkingpowerforum.ning.com/group/LinkingEyesToFindMissingChildren (HOMEBASE)
http://groups.msn.com/LinkingEyesToFindMissingChildren/
http://groups.google.com/group/linking-eyes-to-find-missing-children
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkingEyesToFindMissingChildren/
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/LinkingEyesToFindMissingChildren/
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/linkingeyestofindmissingchildren
http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=31938928486&ref=ts
http://www.socialmedian.com/network/linking-eyes-to-find-missing-children
http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/groups/profile/219044020954
http://grou.ps/linkingeyestofindmissingchildren
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=717967
http://linkingeyestofindmissingchildren.blogspot.com/
https://linkingeyestofindmissingchildren.wordpress.com/
http://groups.myspace.com/LinkingEyesToFindMissingChildren

There are Billions of eyes on this planet. It takes eyes to take children from their homes. And it will take eyes to return them to their homes... Join us on Linking Eyes To Find Missing Children…


Keep STRONG!
Vincent Wright
Social Media Coach
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Linking Eyes To Find Missing Children on Linkedin Groups

If, as an end user, I grant myself permission to criticize Linkedin for issues I truly have a problem with then, I should also grant myself permission to say a "Hallelujah!" or two for those things which make me feel good about Linkedin.

I feel good about Linkedin today...

Case in point: Even as a die-hard group creator, there is one group which means more to me than almost any other: Linking Eyes To Find Missing Children. I hope I don't need to tell you why this particular groups is so important but, just imagine the stress that a child is under when they don't have their familiar roots, processes, routines, people to turn to. I know first hand how challenging it is - even as an middle aged adult - to have your life, your routines uprooted. Familiar things ripped away from you... - Compounding that with prospective psychological and physical harm to the child and you can see the urgency of treating this as a matter worthy of the best attention of the best people.

No one can force us to look for these missing children but, if you and I love networking as much as we claim to, then it should disturb us into action when we realize how "un-networked" these missing children are. The more powerful our own networks the more we should be able to empathize with the powerlessness of the networks of these missing children.

Thus, as a professional networker I'm encouraged by the fact that, today, August 25, 2008, Linkedin Corporation approved my group "Linking Eyes To Find Missing Children". That, in and of itself, is good enough to make me feel quite good about Linkedin... *THAT satisfies *me*!

I'll explain more about why it was so meaningful to get this particular group up and running even in the midst of all the things going on with Linkedin Groups but, for now, I'd just like to make you aware of Linking Eyes To FInd Missing Children: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/717967/

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Vincent Wright
Social Media Coach
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