If you missed our mailing yesterday, then you won’t want to miss reading this post. Qassia is an up and coming social community that awards you with backlinks in exchange for your “wiki-like” writeups.

Read about Qassia social community here

[NOTE: Qassia does send you a "validate yourself" type email to create your account. Be sure to give a real inbox or you will have wasted your time. Validate and return to the site to continue setting up. Your DASHBOARD gives you access to all the different aspects of how to setup your Qassia and what's what on how to write.]

After signing up, you’ll want to do a few things before you start posting. Always, in any community, fill out your profile and upload a picture or your avatar. This particular social media community is not that indepth (nothing at all like Facebook or Myspace), but letting others know who you are and what you do is always critical. Make your information fun and informative, they like that

Then you use the “Add Intel” links to begin adding your tidbits to their wiki-type setup. You need to have a bit of backbone when publishing since 10 other people will read what you’ve written and “grade your work.” We note that not everyone plays fair, and while some questionable entries get okay marks, other pieces of information that would be of use to all don’t always get the proper marks. We think the members of Qassia just don’t “get it” yet, but hopefully do over time.

The great thing is reading is subjective. So don’t be disappointed (or even elated) about your marks. That’s not the point

Gaining valuable backlinks in the search engines for your tags and “reports” is the point. Quassia promises great things in the search engines, so why not be a part of it.

As with all new programs or websites, we are suspending judgment until it’s been around long enough to receive some sort of grade itself. However, if they stay on track with their goals, why not be in at the start of something new that has the potential to really boost your website, blog, etc., into the search engines.

Qassia, after joining or even if you don’t join, please take the time to tell us about your experience here on this blog.

Never pass up the chance to branding yourself!

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Our own Qassia url is already in Google! We only started yesterday…! Now to see if and/or how long before our tagged stuff appears.

In their February 8, 2008 edition of Webpronews, David A. Utter wonders if Social Network advertising is really as great as some would lead you to believe.

While we are great fans of Webpronews’ online reporting, we can’t help but wonder ourselves if they dug deep enough prior to making their Facebook post…

The demographics as presented by Utter are missing though he does go on and on about these types of communities belonging to college age kids. He also suggests that the potential for advertising your own business may not be that great if you’re not hobnobbing with the “younger crowd.”

Yes, Facebook, Myspace and the like may have started out as cool places for kids to go. However, this demographic is a-changin’.

Recent indications are that a large percentage of over 34′s are socializing and using these active communities. In fact a huge population is between the ages of 34 and 65. Don’t sound like a big of kids hanging out anymore… does it.

Still, not to slam Utter at all (we do enjoy his work and Webpronews), it is always best to research and test your own advertisements versus swallowing hook, line, and sinker any single person’s perception (ours included!).