Daily Archives: September 3, 2009

CitySocialising, the UK’s leading socialising and networking site and service for city professionals today launched its search to find the UK’s most sociable people.

In their hunt for the CitySocialising Super Socialiser 2009, the networking site is asking its members across 19 cities in the UK and Scotland to organise and host great social days and nights out in their city and invite as many people as they can to join them.

Earlier this year, CitySocialising surveyed over 3500 professionals across the UK on their opinions of meeting new people and found that it took 64% of adults three months or more to make a single real world friend, even though online they may gather several hundred in the same period.

The network found that thirty six percent of those surveyed had moved cities in the last two years and of those, 86% had found meeting new people and making new friends “slow and difficult”. When asked why, 33% expressed difficulty knowing where to go to meet new friends, whilst 27% said the biggest barrier was finding people who shared the same interests. Twelve per cent of those surveyed said that people were often “too cliquey” and therefore not open to opening up to new friendships.

“That’s why we at CitySocialising decided to launch this competition, to encourage people to be proactive about meeting new friends, organising the kind of things that they themselves like doing and then reaching out of their comfort zones to invite new people to join them” says Sanchita Saha, 33 year old CEO and Founder of CitySocialising. “It’s an ideal way to meet new people who like doing same things as you and gives great results when it comes to forging new, real world friendships. As our study revealed, there can be barriers to meeting new friends such as knowing where to go and how to meet people – with our Super Socialiser competition we’re challenging people to get out there and take control of their social lives.”

The competition runs through September and October and two prize draws to win the latest mini Sony VAIO (worth £450), £150 M&S, Amazon and Starbucks vouchers as well as free premium membership to CitySocialising will be held on Monday 9th November. Plus, all entries to the draw receive a month’s free premium membership to CitySocialising.

To enter the draws, entrants need to create a social event or activity on the CitySocialising site, and get 8, 10 or 20 or more people to attend. For more information, visit: http://www.citysocialising.com/competition/

Students, faculty and fans of University Canada West now have more options to interact with the online university, with the official launch of the school’s Twitter, YouTube and Facebook profiles. Each initiative will be used to promote UCAN news, special events and alumni updates. Visit http://ucan.ca/news for more information.

According to UCAN President and Vice-Chancellor, David Strong the networking sites are a “perfect fit” for the university, with its student body covering two campuses and the World Wide Web.

“Tweets, viral videos, status updates and posts are changing the way the world is interacting, for social, educational and business purposes,” says Dr. Strong. “The degree programs at UCAN focus on the evolution of business, technology and media, so it makes sense that we would participate and encourage our students to participate as well.”

Twitter, one of the newest forms of social media, is a micro-blogging and networking site. UCAN’s Twitter page will allow students, faculty and alumni to receive up-to-the minute updates and news about university events and life. Follow UCAN on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UCANedu.

UCAN will use its new YouTube channel to promote academics and campus life, including videos of graduation ceremonies, tutorials, online courses, alumni success stories and more. View original UCAN content at http://www.youtube.com/CanadaUniversity.

Students, alumni and faculty will also have the opportunity to keep up-to-date on all UCAN-related news via the university’s fan page on Facebook. The page also allows followers to post comments and photos, as well as interact with each other. Join the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/UniversityCanadaWest.

About University Canada West

University Canada West (UCAN) is a progressive post-secondary institution offering a number of undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, including BCom, BA and MBA programs. Degree programs are available at campuses in Vancouver, Victoria and Singapore, as well as online. Small class sizes, combined with practical curricula and world-class instruction, means students get the education they want, when they want it. UCAN degree programs are offered under the written consent of the British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development. Learn more at http://ucan.ca.

So Act Network, Inc. (SOAN.OB) announced today that its common stock begins trading on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB).

“Becoming publicly traded is an important step for us to begin building awareness in the capital markets as we strive to develop and gain recognition as a social network for internet users globally,” said Greg Halpern, President, So Act Network provides its users with a suite of unique productivity tools by allowing its members – to promote or build whatever they want to the world, without excessive rules, without being subjected to spam or ads and without having their personal information used by marketers.

About So Act Network, Inc.
So Act’s innovative technologies provide a global social network where its members are free to accomplish and promote all of their important goals without being subjected to spam or ads and without having their personal information used by marketers. So Act improves on the social networking theme by providing businesses and individuals with valuable productivity tools in a personalized, private format that enhance the overall web experience and save time and money for its users.
Some of the tools that provide benefits to So Act members include –
– a communication platform that combines spam-free and ad-free email, text and chat allowing users to maintain as many always-on conversations as they desire
– the ability to form groups that help build business, develop new ideas, study and learn, promote causes, connect with likeminded individuals
– a high performance search engine that is ad-free and provides only the top 10 results in the world
– a media drive that allows members to upload, secure, and file share every important file on their computer
– a press club so members can share their important news with their followers and the media
– For more information, and to join free – visit www.SoAct.Net