Social Media Tools

List of Social Media Tools

There is this slight notion out there that social media tools are only social networking which is not actually the case. Social networking in fact happened because of social media.

If you think or have been told that social media is only social networking then you have been misinformed. Social media consists of a variety of tools and social networking would be one of those tools which make up the whole of social media. In this blog I’m going to give you a brief of the various social media tools out there.

Blogs

Most of us are familiar with

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Google WAVE Experience – Day 2

Nope, I’m not going to be posting every single day but will be posting as and when I discover new findings or have made some form of progress.

Yesterday, I was feeling very blonde with Google WAVE and I’m not convinced that’s changed but I am going to stick around and give it some of my attention.

After my frustration yesterday trying to invite someone,  I decided it was time for me to actually go and read the help section instead of jumping in the deep end.

No more invites for now

So this was my progress today.

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The Google WAVE experience – Day 1

So the big hoohah at the moment is Google Wave.   I watched the video a while back  and completely forgot to sign up, so when the news was out that invites were out and being sold on E-Bay, I felt a bit like an outsider and being in the virtual business that is not a very good thing. 

Have you heard the saying: “It’s not what you know but who you know” and receiving an invitation this morning reminded me of how true this can be.

There I was a silly idiot in front of my laptop feeling all chuffed and excited

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Why such a big NO, NO to affiliate links?

For starters I just want to say that I have joined affiliate links and honestly I have not earned one penny from them.  It’s not because they are not paying me but rather my fault.  It is me who keeps forgetting to add my links, forgets my passwords or can’t be bothered to log in to get the links and go and paste it somewhere.  So no, I don’t actually use them that much at all.

However, I went on a business start up course and the course leader reminded us of how often we recommend other people’s business

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