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YoPro Global, a new invite-only social community combines online social networking and in-person events for college graduates and young professionals.

(PRWEB) January 09, 2013

With hundreds of niche social networks on the market today, the top 10, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, controlling over 70% of the social media market share. Facebook serves students and young professionals by establishing a familial community for every stage of life. LinkedIn provides a database of contacts and a list of jobs that can take an experienced professional to the next level. No other social network provides a community for the recent graduate to learn, understand and develop in the workforce during the first stages of their professional careers.

Knowing that the social network market is becoming a crowded marketplace, a new social network has emerged, believing it has a fighting chance to compete on the global stage. This new network, YoPro Global, considers itself well positioned to serve the needs of a growing segment of the marketplace today; those severely affected by unemployment and underemployment with limited experience: recent graduates and young professionals.

YoPro Global is a social community that serves recent college graduates and young professionals facing the job market for the first time, and those looking to advance their careers with support from a community. YoPro Global separates itself from its competitors by providing peer-to-peer networking; a library of resources and discounted products and services every young professional needs in this early stage of life. YoPros competitive advantage lies in its ability to offer its solutions online and in person for every type of young people at an early stage in their professional life.

When young people are in college they use Facebook. When theyve been in the workforce a while and they have experience to put on a resume, the use LinkedIn. As of right now, there is no solution for the period between college and experience, and thats where we come in. We are a social network that bridges the gap between your college life, and being a seasoned professional, said Dr. C. Tyrone Richardson, CEO, YoPro Global. We are also the first network to combine creative and traditional, corporate professionals, making it easier for non-traditional professionals to access the resources they need for success, truly embracing diversity as a principle among young professionals.

YoPros approach to networking is to redefine the concept of mentorship by building a peer-to-peer networking community. In addition to its online social network, YoPro partners with young professional and networking organizations worldwide, and hosts events of its own in conjunction with EYP, as a means of giving young people a forum to make their online relationships real. Events offer all of the benefits of the online network including networking, information and access to products and services in person.

YoPro currently offers open early enrollment to young professionals across the world until March 2013. EYP will launch in-person networking events across the world in 2013 and YoPro will launch a beta version of the social network in March 2013. As part of its enrollment, YoPro is giving young professionals a chance to have input in the building of the network. Founding members can respond to surveys, give their opinions on screenshots and begin to share their stories as the network is being built.

Membership to YoPro Global is free and after March, will be by referral or application only. More information can be found at http://www.yoproglobal.org or by emailing admin(at)yoproglobal(dot)org.

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Some of Vodafone's customers will start to notice their data quota vanish quicker than usual after the telco announced changes to take effect on February 13.

One of the changes will mean prepaid customers' access to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace will no longer be free.

The other change will see the telco begin billing data usage in 1 megabyte blocks with a minimum "session" of 1 megabyte on all prepaid plans.

This second change will mean that whenever a notification or email is pushed to a customer's smartphone, it will be charged at 1 megabyte, regardless of whether only a few kilobytes of data were used.

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The move comes afterOptus stopped offering unmetered social networking accesson its contract plans in December.

"No one likes to have to pay for something that they were ordinarily getting for free," said Elise Davidson, a spokeswoman for the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, the peak body that represents consumers on communications issues. "But Vodafone remain one of the cheaper providers when it comes to prepaid. Because this only affects prepaid plans, customers are free to go elsewhere."

Ms Davidson said the change to bill in 1 megabyte blocks for some customers would mean that their data would disappear quicker, but noted that other carrier's prepaid customers, like Optus, were billed in a similar way.

"If you are getting your emails pushed from Microsoft Exchange every 15 minutes, that's 4 megabytes an hour," Ms Davidson said. "People are therefore going to have to look at the settings on their phones in terms of the push notifications if they want to minimise the data that they are using."

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COME TOGETHER: Got Facebook fatigue or tired of Twitter? There's plenty of other sites out there for a fix of social networking.

Research by Nielsen suggests 80 per cent of online Kiwis visit Facebook each month, while Twitter is the third most popular social media site in the country, with 431,000 people visiting it in October.

But look beyond the two blue behemoths, and you'll find a wide range of sites to suit all social types and tastes.

PINTEREST

This social scrapbooking site attracted 10 million users faster than any other social networking site and is currently the fourth most popular site in the United States, with an estimated 85.5 million unique monthly visitors. Members post pictures on topics of interest on their "boards" and can follow friends and other members who do the same.

TAGGED

Similar to Facebook, Tagged lets you set up profiles, message friends, play games and post photos. It has more than 300 million members and is the ninth most popular site in the US.

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Google's Facebook rival is steadily gaining on its bigger brother. The service lets you group people into different circles, eg work, friends and family, so you can share different content with different groups, video chat with contacts, and get news and content on topics you're interested in delivered straight to your profile.

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