In today's world how can you not be on it? From a PR point of of view it is the easy answer to communicate your messages across to thousands of people within the space of seconds. It is such a powerful tool but it does need to be used correctly and effectively for you to reap the rewards. Here are a few options that you could look at if you were interested in going down this route. I will be blogging at a later date and more in-depth about this but still, it'll be a nice little warm up for what's about to come.
1. Facebook
Our friendly reliable that almost everybody knows about. Between finding old friends, uploading pictures, posting general comments and sharing items there is actually quite a lot to do. Trust me though, and I speak from experience it can suck you into its world. An hour can easily pass and you'll have realised that you have just been scrolling through your news feed. In saying that it is a great way to keep in touch with people and with 750,000,000 estimated monthly reviews it is the most popular social media website to be on.
2.Twitter
Our beloved little birdy that tells us all of our gossip through tweeting. The initial concept of twitter, for those of you who don't know is that a tweet should consist of 140 characters or less thus making in the same amount of characters as a text message. So basically a tweet is just an on-line text message, simple as that. Similar to Facebook you can upload pictures, private message, tweet to a friend or just to your followers. Anybody can follow you and can follow or unfollow anybody you wish. As for the the use of hash-tags it is basically the summary of what you have said, for example 'watching the Olympics thinking I could totally do this #nextkatietaylor', or something to that effect.
3.Linked-In
It is the world's largest professional network that helps people find and share opportunities everyday. On this you can develop a professional profile that allows you connect with people throughout your field. You can upload your address book and keep 'linked-in' with colleagues of perspective workers. It can help you build and maintain relationships even as you or others change jobs or email addresses.You can also link to your twitter account and share professional tweets. With 110,000,000 views monthly to Linked-In it is a very modern way to improve your professional profile.
4. Pinterest
To put it in simple terms it is an on-line picture book that you create. On your account you will be able to creative a board, upload a pin(picture) or re-pin someone else's picture. If it a great way to create an image profile for your business, for example a bakery could pin images of their food. Also Pinterest is great for personal use, if your thinking of redecorating, planning a wedding or even just cakes you like the look of you can create a board and use it for inspiration.
There you have the Top Ten social media websites as according to eBiz but don't just take my word for it, check them out and see if any of them suits you. If not, don't fret I will be back with more options on social media.
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