Network and Rate Your Nanny

There are a million websites that provide you information about stuff. They let you rank a business, an establishment, or an institution. These rankings are provided by people from around the world with a varied background. For example, a person in Arizona might have a different set of expectations when rating a winter coat than from a person in upscale New York. The item remains the same, but the perspective of rating the item might vary. The person in Arizona might be evaluating the coat in terms of its durability and cost while the person in New York might be more conscious of fashion. We have the same item here – a winter coat – to be evaluated, but our audience is very different.

What if you can get together similar thinking folks sharing a common background to rate that coat? For example, as a fashion designer, you can invite your co-workers and fraternity members to rate the winter coat. Chances are that your friends will rate the coat based on fashion, durability, and cost, material, and ethical considerations (fur coats are not cool). You end up with a more realistic ranking based on similar perspective of the item.  

If you apply this same logic to parenting, the benefits are obvious. You create your own network by inviting liked minded folks from your immediate circle of family and friends. You ask these people to rate an item, such as a school, a doctor, or a business and thus form a trust level for each item.

So what is trust level? Trust level is a patented means to evaluate an item. People invite friends to form a network. Their friends invite other friends and a network is formed. You identify with people in the network by your degree of connection or connection level to that person. Each friend within the network is attributed a connection level. A connection level determines if a friend is a first level acquaintance or comes in the second or third level.

A first level acquaintance is a person directly connected to the user. Similarly, second level connection are those who are connected to your first level connections (friend of a friend in other words) and third level connections are those who are connected to your second level connections (friend of a friend of a friend in other words).

http://www.parentsKlub.com is a new parenting website that allows you to do just that – evaluate key items related to your kids based on trust level. In addition, parentsKlub allows you to add a school or a doctor to the rating system and offer that item to be rated by your network. Sharing items on parentsKlub adds to the information repository and enables parents to make educated decisions about things related to their children. 

Social Networking Site for Parents

So you are bored of Facebook. Same friends, same status updates eulogizing vacations and new love conquests, and unending pictures from the fairy tale life? You are now a parent and you have better things to worry about, such as schools for your kids, vacation destinations, babysitters, homework, and so on.

Let’s say you are looking for a good school for your 3 year old.

How are you sure that Google will return you the best, most reliable, and trust worthy information? Chances are that it won’t. So what do you do? You go to several parenting sites or forums on the Internet and look for information. The quality of information that you find on these sites are usually unreliable and not good enough to give you a direction for your research.

Now consider if you can form your own online network and invite friends, relatives, and acquaintances to join you in the network. You can ask these people to rate an item, such as a school or doctor and based these ratings each item is awarded a trust level. A trust level is much more authentic than general rating because the rating is done by people you know.

To add to it, you are allowed a cool social networking interface - say Facebook for parents. Would you like to have a social networking site just for parents? No useless status messages, no lewd updates. Just plain talk about kids.

What do you think? If you think that’s a good idea or even otherwise, go towww.parentsKlub.com.

parentsKlub allows you to invite people you trust (friends, relatives) and form your own network. These people then rate each item, such as schools, doctors, babysitter, and so on. When people from your network rates each item, the parentsKlub rating engine assigns a trust level to that item ranging from 0 to 10.

Trust level is different from regular ratings because it is done by known people. Chances of bogus or paid rating is drastically reduced and you get a genuine indication of what people you know feel about a certain item.

Wanna try out this new website? Go to www.parentsKlub.com.