SwapThing and Cerado to Expand Neighborhood and Social Networking by way of New SwapCircles
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Cupertino and Half Moon Bay, CA (PRWEB) August 24, 2006
SwapThing, a exciting on-line local community for swapping factors, and Cerado, a provider of companies that permit organizations to build nearer relationships with their clients, have aligned to help swappers discover other swappers who reveal common interests by means of new SwapCircles. The new SwapCircle provider will be offered this drop via SwapThing.com.
Driven by Cerado’s Haystack™ networking, a SwapCircle is a local community of folks who identify with a particular exercise, locality or other commonality. SwapCircles provide a new way to swap products and services among trusted swappers with comparable hobbies or interests. SwapCircles are customizable with a group’s emblem and mission, as nicely as exhibiting the things detailed by the members beneath a single umbrella, and also give a non-public forum for members to chat, swap, and reveal ideas and stories.
Christopher Carfi, CEO and Co-Founder of Cerado, Inc. observed, “Swaps are not just for products, but also for swapping household and business companies. Haystack networking enables SwapCircle members to hook up based mostly on affinity, interests, geography, and similarity. Since every neighborhood is distinctive, this permits community members to tailor the community to their particular person wants.”
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SwapThing CEO and Founder, Jessica Hardwick provided, “Swapping is inherently a believe in-based mostly activity, and SwapCircles are primarily based on real globe and virtual (on-line) connections. SwapCircles assist enhance have confidence in by facilitating swapping in reliable groups. Cerado’s Haystack networking will assist control and sustain people special connections.”
Presently, there are over 50,000 swappers employing SwapThing, and around 3,000,000 things and companies detailed. There is no additional price to swappers to produce or join SwapCircles. Over 100 organizations use Haystack networking.
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Screenshot accessible online: http://www.flickr.com/photograph_zoom.gne?id=222184301&size=o
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About SwapThing
Based mostly in Cupertino, CA, SwapThing encourages the trade and barter of any mixture of things and solutions among consumers and little businesses, using income to offset unequal exchanges. SwapThing delivers totally free registration and listing, with transaction fees of $ 1.00 for each trade of goods, no make a difference how a lot of things are in the swap. Not like competitors, SwapThing is barter-primarily based as opposed to auction-centered, permitting entirely personal, a single-on-one particular negotiations.
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The SwapThing search engine matches objects offered to objects needed – a distinctive method of immediate exchange among end users, and a rating method to build trustworthiness. It also enables the creation and joining of SwapCircles to build powerful communities and social networks for traders of like interests. http://www.swapthing.com
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About Cerado
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Cerado, Inc. employs innovative engineering to offer valuable, non-intrusive providers that allow organizations to talk far more efficiently, compete more effectively, and near company much more successfully. Cerado performs with organizations to build consumer-driven communities across a amount of hugely aggressive industries this kind of as large tech, finance, and expert companies.
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Probably most importantly, the Cerado group feels that the rising locations of social technologies — blogs, wikis, social networks, and the like — are going to basically transform the way that buyers and companies interact in these shared communities, as properly as basically adjust the way personnel interact with each other in individuals organizations.
Contact:
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Megan Saulsbury
FutureWorks
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408-428-0895 Ext. 104
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