{"id":446,"date":"2009-02-02T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/?p=446"},"modified":"2009-02-02T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:19:52","slug":"20090205-proposed-agenda-yvette-wohn-social-news-site-ewhaiancom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/2009\/02\/02\/20090205-proposed-agenda-yvette-wohn-social-news-site-ewhaiancom\/","title":{"rendered":"2009\/02\/05 Proposed Agenda: Yvette Wohn on social news site Ewhaian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;ll welcome Yvette Wohn to discuss the Korean news &amp; social site <a href=\"Ewhaian.com\"><span class=\"nfakPe\">Ewhaian<\/span>.com<\/a>: &#8220;Integrating hyperlocal news with social networking&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Yvette:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2001, three seniors at Ewha Women&#8217;s University launched a social  networking site for students of their school. (Ewha is one of Korea&#8217;s top universities  and the largest women&#8217;s univ. in the world) With campus media subsidized and screened, this online portal took off  not only as a networking site but also as an independent news and information portal. With  50,000 active user accounts (mostly current students) and an average of 8,000 concurrent users, the site is a forum for  synchronous and asynchronous communication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Although there are &#8220;staff&#8221; members for a news section, most of the  interesting content is user-created&#8211; ranging from lecture evaluations to peer counseling and serial fiction. The  content is not only self-created, but also self-moderated. Despite the high web traffic and massive hard  drive management, the site is profitable&#8211;not relying on advertisements, but rather on offline events, which works in not only  generating revenue, but also keeping the community together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I believe Ewhaian is a great model for regional news sites, social  networking sites that have a tight geographical focus, and could be the next step for Facebook in expanding its business\/services. I wish  to talk about how this site got here, what worked and what didn&#8217;t, and why after several years, it&#8217;s still thriving when so  many similar sites failed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As always, blog group meetings are at 7pm in the conference room of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society, at <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/contact\">23 Everett St<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming meetings &amp; events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2\/12 &#8211; Go to Ignite! Boston 5: <a href=\"http:\/\/ignite.oreilly.com\/2009\/01\/ignite-boston-5.html\">sign up in advance to be sure you get in.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2\/19 &#8211; Probably blog group will host the February Cyberscholars event.<\/li>\n<li>TBD: Renee Lloyd on women in technology &amp; brainstorming about a possible &#8220;She&#8217;s Geeky&#8221; conference in Boston.<\/li>\n<li>At some point, we should take advantage of Berkman&#8217;s RockBand set and have a music party in lieu of a normal meeting.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s getting to be time to have another dim sum gathering, too.<\/li>\n<li>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/home\/events\">Berkman Calendar<\/a> for other upcoming Berkman stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;ll welcome Yvette Wohn to discuss the Korean news &amp; social site Ewhaian.com: &#8220;Integrating hyperlocal news with social networking&#8221; From Yvette: In 2001, three seniors at Ewha Women&#8217;s University launched a social networking site for students of their school. 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