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 blogs but if you are not, blogs is a type of website which can be updated quickly and easily and published chronologically. You can post text, images, video, podcasts pretty much anything on blog sites. Blogs are is a good place to get started if you are a new start up.
WordPress (my favourite)
Typepad
Blogger
MSN Spaces
Movable Type
PMachine
Greymatter
B2 Evolution
Text Pattern
Express Engine
I’m only familiar with Word Press and Blogger but to get a good break down of the pros and cons here is what Problogger has to say.
Social Bookmarks
Social bookmarking is
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.
I discovered that I am still waving by myself or waving to myself as I cannot easily wave with anyone, reminds me of the song by Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb where it starts “Is there anybody out there?”
I also discovered that numerious invitations were sent out, 100,000 I believe and in the help section it said that there is a long waiting list to be processed which means that “the lights are off “and no more invites are being sent but once Google has caught up they will be waving invites to current users to invite others so I have
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 that I got to be a part of the whole Google Wave experience, yeeehah and very grateful to the person who sent me an invitation. Thank you Geoffrey.
Busy with my work, I left it open and carried on with other things. Later on viewing Twitter, someone posted something about Google Wave and I decided that it was time to have a bit of a play with Google Wave.
I’m not a “read the instructions/user guide kind of gal”, I’m more of “let’s jump in the deep end and see how I swim”. If it is user friendly, I’ll stick
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 and services thereby giving them business and yet we don’t get anything in return for it and we should consider perhaps the option of asking for introduction, recommendations and referral fees. Why not!
On a forum post which was asking for advice and recommendations for a service. I knew this one particular company who offers an exceptionally good quality service and so I decided to comment. Remembering what was said on the course, I decided to add my affiliate link.
What! I just committed a cardinal sin! I got such flack for doing this and could not believe what
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