Re: Socialnetworks of a person or organization

I see.  Thanks, Thad.  Up until this point, I have been using the 
"sameAs" property to link to other pages, but I wasn't sure if there was 
a better way to define things for search engines.  No problem, that 
method works for me.  Thanks.

David


On 1/24/2014 10:46 AM, Thad Guidry wrote:
> David,
>
> We already have your needs fulfilled with the property "sameAs" on 
> http://schema.org/LocalBusiness or even just 
> http://schema.org/Organization  ... just use that and it works today. 
>  This proposal for "Account" is for representing Account identities 
> sometimes represented as a url and not "__Pages__ that are created for 
> AccountHolders or that represent them topically on a page" as I 
> understand it.
>
> -- 
> -Thad
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, David Deering 
> <david@touchpointdigital.net <mailto:david@touchpointdigital.net>> wrote:
>
>     I've been listening to the conversation and have been debating
>     with something myself.  I'd like to see a way in which business
>     listings and business profile pages could also be distinguished
>     through Schemas. Particularly, I'm referring to a business'
>     listing on sites such as Yelp, Angie's List, YP.com, Foursquare,
>     Infogroup, Acxiom, Factual, Nokia, CitySearch, and even listings
>     such as Google+ Local, Bing Places, and Yahoo Local.  Whereas a
>     Google+ Local or Business/Brand page could be considered a social
>     account, I don't believe that the others could.
>
>     So I'm not sure if SocialAccount would fit those applications, and
>     I'm also not sure if Account would be too general or vague.  Maybe
>     BusinessListing, BusinessPage, ProfilePage, or even Page would be
>     a better suited type for those pages, I don't know.  So I'm just
>     throwing that out there to get everyone's thoughts.  Thanks.
>
>     David
>
>