Creation even of small social network – the long and difficult process requiring solid knowledge not only in the field of IT technologies, but also practical psychology. Nevertheless, at the correct approach and observance of certain rules create own social network practically any person with active living position can.
We prepare the soil
The social network is a community of many thousands of various people, with unlike outlook and various interests and hobbies. But creation any, even the most numerous social network always begins with development of small community which members only several people can be. Therefore independently to create social network, you should "untwist" at first similar group, to make it the most known in Internet space.
To create social network independently, time is necessary
So, first of all decide on subject of your mini-club. It can be absolutely any and concern any spheres of activity, beginning from extreme sports and finishing, for example, with Middle Ages history. It is necessary for you in all ways to attract new people in your group, to place information on it in blogs and forums. Without fail it is necessary to visit places and entertaining institutions where you will be able to get acquainted with potential members of your community.
To promote social network independently, it is necessary to find the similar communities which are already existing on the Internet. Try to organize between them and your group exchange of news, links, other information. Will hold useful meetings of members of your community from time to time "in real", inviting to all of them persons interested. Not superfluous will be to create a separate Internet page or even the whole website devoted to your group. It should be noted that this period of creation of social network can extend for a solid period, from several months to several years.
Promote social network free of charge quite really!
As soon as your uzkotematichesky community begins to total more than 100-150 members, it is possible to begin work on its transformation in full-fledged social network. For this purpose you will need to move it to more powerful technical platform. To create social network free of charge, use services of numerous Internet hostings and specialized services like VirusBulletin or MySpace on which placement does not require financial investments. They allow to create hundreds of new modules and are designed for on-line presence of many thousands of users.
Any social network should contain at least 10 modules which perform functions of involvement of new members. In the Forum module there is a communication of participants of social network, exchange of views between them. The Chat module also intends for communication, but already in real time. In the Meetings module the participants of social network agree about meetings, and in the Places module share impressions of visit of cafe, clubs, movie theaters, other institutions.
Constantly updating information in modules and sections, actively attracting new people, you will shortly manage to create full-fledged social network which members will be tens and hundreds of thousands of participants.