Gooruze rules
Posted by Celeste Yates on 30 Oct 2007 at 04:37 pm | Tagged as: Hot off the Press, Social Media
A new online marketing community has been launched which promises to be the next big thing in social media. Gooruze is the first online marketing community where content is both created and rated by its members. The platform is the same as the successful Minti.com, which is a community for parents.
The site combines the elements of already successful social media sites, such as Digg, Sphinn, Webmasters World and SEOmoz. They are the first online communities to make online marketing accessible to users. They have merged various social media components into the website.
Users are able to have a profile page, where they can up load all their information. There is a “friends and contact” option as well, plus news, articles and questions section. Users are able to write their own articles and news for this section. Their activities will be displayed in their profile page. Activities get archived under a calendar marking.
Gooruze also includes RSS feeds and blogs. Users are able to subscribe to other user’s RSS feeds. There is an option to start a project blog. The project blog is for users to note their progress on a project and other users can give feedback or advice.
There is a “personal lounge” where a user can discuss their thoughts. Overall Gooruze seems to have done research into what makes social media sites successful, what works and what doesn’t as well as what the target audience is looking for.
The site promotes social activity and discussions with forums, blogs and social book marking on other sites. Overall, the feedback for the site has been positive. The site is for all types of online-marketing uses from junior to experienced.
Having had the site on a closed-beta test run, the site is now open to the public.
