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 People often ask me to have a look at brand new social networking sites. I typically decline, as I prefer to invest my time checking out social sites that have already gained acceptance.
However, this week, when my blogging friend John from EZGreatLife.com sent me to a social media site that might help me brand myself and tie together Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites, I decided to investigate.
 Accounting for my motivation was an expectation that the aggregation of social websites will be a major focus of 2010, as enabling technologies like semantic web come to the forefront. Don’t we all wish it would be easier to organize and streamline our many social networking sites?
The landing page provided little information. It did however indicate that I could become a beta tester if I joined by noon my time on the 13th, and I joined. John had told me that there would be gifts for the beta testers, but I’d have signed up right away in any case.
Last night I attended a webinar to learn some details. I’m far from an expert, but this is what I learned:
- Moneza is the name of the website, and membership is free.
- Membership includes your MeCard (which resembles Card.ly but is substantially more powerful). This online business card provides your contact information, links to your active social sites and displays your live update feed (pretty much like Friend Feed does). The MeCard also displays how many people you are tracking (following) and how many you are tracked by (followed by), an indication of your social influence and clout.
- The MeCard is viral, as viewers are encouraged to get their own. When they do, they become part of your growing network, which expands outward from you at its center. This helps to grow your brand virally, but exactly how that works, I don’t yet understand.
- There will be a back office from which you’ll manage your MeCard and from which you’ll post updates to all your social sites at once (much as if you were using Friend Feed or ping.fm).
Please join me, and let’s build our networks. Coming in on the ground floor (as I did with Twitter and Ning) will facilitate the building process — and the gift for becoming a beta tester will be a plus. 
Then watch for the next webinar which will provide us with more details.
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