Idea: Level 2 Social Media

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This is an idea page about "Level 2" social media where the media is used to help "other" people.

  • Most social media is aimed at allowing people to use it for themselves. We're calling this "level 1" social media.
  • Level 1 social media allows people to connect to new friends, old friends, services and a variety of useful resources for themselves.
  • The idea behind Level 2 social media is that the Users have "clients." The clients can be friends, relatives, members of their church, neighbors, or actual clients of a social service organization. The users can be individuals, neighborhood leaders, neighborhood "helpers," social workers, political operatives, or anyone who wishes to be helpful to people that are not themselves.
  • A unique characteristic of level 2 social media is the potential for users to introduce people to each other. Match-making is therefore one of the uses for level 2 social media.

Level 2 social media is used by "Helpers"

  • To keep demographic and needs information about clients.
  • To allow anonymous information about clients to be shared so it can be found by other helpers.
  • To maintain contacts with other helpers.
  • To build trust relationships with other helpers.
  • To enable each helper to better know that skills and resources of other helpers.
  • To enable each helper to have access to information about the kinds of clients other helpers are working to help.
  • To seek out potential connections that may be beneficial to the clients.
  • To work with other helpers to suggest potential appropriate matches between their clients.

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