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We’re excited to announce that http://tapintoU.com is officially LIVE. Join now to sign-up for early access! 

What is tapTank?

tapTank is a tool for achievement and getting things done by utilizing your network across Facebook & Twitter. It helps you, social web users, to bridge the gaps across all social networks that you’re a part of so that those connections can be easier to leverage usefully.  
Using tapTank, you can tap into your web and real-life connections to get things done and achieve personal goals or win other achievements from brands related to your interests.

How could I use tapTank?

The tapTank website & mobile app facilitates Useful Social Interaction© so that you get to combine getting things done, winning rewards & achievements & keeping track of your life while having fun with your friends!

Using tapTank, you can:

• Manage what you are doing & want to get
• Organize what you want to do & create a plan to execute it
• Find people to help you with what you are trying to do
  (Hmm you took this class last year… can you help me with my term paper?)
• Barter to complete tasks &achieve goals
  (ie. I need a photographer for my wedding, can you do it? I’ll make you a cool web site in return!)
• Group with friends to achieve the same goal or compete & see who will win
  (Want to lose 5 pounds with me? Let’s do it together & whomever sticks to it wins $200!)
• Track your success & other analytics on how much you are leveraging your social networks (we can give you some tips too!)
• Check-in to tasks & competitions that friends have created to help them, barter your skills or win the bounty they’ve posted

So, how will you tapintoU using tapTank? Sign Up For Early Access & Tell Us at http://tapintoU.com!

Edit July 2011: Name of product updated to be tapTank.

          
Social networks have had value long before Facebook or even the internet came to be. Since the beginning humans functioned best and survived by forming communities.

In 1916, L.J. Hanifan used the term Social Capital to define this & explained it to be:

The tangible substances [that] count for most in the daily lives of people: namely good will, fellowship, sympathy, and social intercourse among the individuals and families who make up a social unit…. The individual is helpless socially, if left to himself.

If he comes into contact with his neighbor, and they with other neighbors, there will be an accumulation of social capital, which may immediately satisfy his social needs and which may bear a social potentiality sufficient to the substantial improvement of living conditions in the whole community.

The community as a whole will benefit by the cooperation of all its parts, while the individual will find in his associations the advantages of the help, the sympathy, and the fellowship of his neighbors.^[6]  

Now, with the explosion of internet technologies, the amount of social capital that a person can accumulate has grown exponentially since it is no longer limited by geography & time. Unfortunately, most people don’t know what to do with all of the socialcapital they’ve accumulated. 

Herein lies the problem, social networks & the internet have helped us grow our capacity to keep in touch with others but there aren’t effective tools for a person to put this valuable capital to use to solve various problems, create opportunities, earn rewards, help & build meaningful relationships with others.

This why it is our mission & passion here at tapTank to build social achievement & productivity tools for people to use to solve this problem.

You can sign up to get early access to our tapintoU today at http://www.tapintou.com/!