Starfish Community Group is pioneering services and solutions in the social media arena. The company was founded July 4th, 2007 and has since launched a series of products.
The company’s vision is to facilitate connections and transactions between commercial and non-commercial partners to leaders and key decision makers of social networks, communities and groups, enabling content, advertising, sponsorship, partnership and value based opportunities to reach pockets of highly targeted people.
Today, there exists over 80 million online communities and groups within 2,000+ social networking platforms. 750 million people are registered to social networks participating in billions of conversations with special interest communities and groups. Starfish decided it was time to shed some light on this undervalued ecosystem.
Our products and services will help you to:
Connect and Partner with leaders and managers of Social Networks, online communities and groups Educate community and group moderators/managers/ owners create more useful and engaging online conversations Digest conversations from multiple groups in one location. Rather than accessing individual groups to view update. Search for the best online communities and groups discussing hot new music, learning about the best new wines, and getting new parent advice.
We have launched a series of products over the last two years servicing the needs of online communities and groups including:
- Linqia Social Network Marketplace - The Moderator Community - Linqia Group Feed - Linqia Group Directory
Starfish Community Group is funded by international partners joining their experience behind a common vision. With capital of €1,350,000, the company is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
The Linqia Marketplace connects commercial partners to Social Networks through our online marketplace. Key decision makers at Social Networks are invited to register for free to the Linqia Marketplace and specify what type of opportunities they are interested in receiving. Commercial Partners select relevant Social Networks, create an opportunity and pay Linqia a small fee to send their message to key decision makers via the Marketplace.
The success of online communities and groups often lies in the hands of their creators. Yet to date these community and group moderators, managers and owners have been provided little support.
So over the past 6 months, we've reached out to dozens of leading specialists and experts in online community management to understand how we can best serve the needs of these important people. As a result, we launched The Moderator Community.
Inside you'll find:
- Over 700 resources relating to the management and development of online communities and groups - Specialist groups targeted to the different phases of the community building process - Latest community management jobs - A list of upcoming events globally relating to community management, social media and web 2.0
Linqia has taken the notion of data portability and applied it to the conversations being had within Facebook's public groups.
Rather than logging into all your groups individually, Group Feed provides a single access point to all the conversations that matter to you. This single view, combined with Group Feed's powerful filters helps you save time and hone in on the discussions that matter to you. Group feed also lets you take an RSS feed of one or all your groups and bring Facebook into your favourite RSS reader.
If you're a member of groups on Facebook give it a try. It's as simple as registering, connecting your Facebook account. And don't forget to let us know what you think.
And in case you're wondering, Facebook is just the start. We'll be adding new community platforms. Check out Group Feed.
The first product Linqia launched back in December 2007 was The Linqia Group Directory which users can find profiles and ratings of thousands of online communities and groups to connect with people around the world who share their interests.
You will find over 500,000 listings of Social Networks, online communities and groups which have been sourced through partnerships and added by users.
KEY QUESTIONS/ISSUES I AM CONTEMPLATING ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA
How will Social Media create new job opportunities?
How will Social Media make a difference to the 4 billion people on this planet who live in developing countries?
How will value be distributed in an open, democratic ecosystem?
MY TOP THREE SOCIAL MEDIA PREDICTIONS
Social Media will play key role in connecting people in developing countries to the rest of the world presenting significant opportunities to pull these people out of poverty and into prosperity
Power will shift to the masses and destablilize corporations, governments and organizations
Print media as we've known it will die within 5 years
