Facebook and Twitter:
“Twitter and Facebook allow businesses of all sizes to spot trends and track sentiment, filter and analyze data, collaborate with fans.” Nowadays social media such as twitter and Facebook are not just used for friends and family. The reason that business organizations are trying to reach to audiences on Facebook and twitter is because of how popular both of these social media networks are.
2008:
Facebook users: 100 million
Twitter users: 1.3 million
2009:
Facebook users: 300 million
Twitter users: 6 million
2010:
Facebook users: 500 million
Twitter users: 105 million
2011:
Facebook users: 800 million
Twitter users: 225 million
Random statistics:
· “36% of social media users post brand related information on sm.”
· “2/3 social media users say twitter influences purchases.”
· “74% of people who purchase entertainment produces discuss them on social networks.”
LinkedIn:
This website is useful to know what not to do on your LinkedIn profile.
1.) Use a bad profile picture: “image that makes you look like someone I would not want to work with, collaborate with or in any other way connect with.”
2.) Write a poor professional headline: Use as few words as possible and make sure that its professional. Most likely the audience will see the shortened version.
3.) Having an ineffective summary: This space should be used to effectively summarize your professional experience, who you are (in a professional way), or talk about your current position.
4.) Ignore how your Public Profile looks: If you are not willing to keep connected on your LinkedIn then you should not create an account. You should be able to keep your information current and updated.
5.) Making your connections open: “By leaving the connections open anyone can creep on your profile and find other people to connect with. If you know them that’s fine, but if you don’t you’re exposing your connections to who know what.”
I have previously learned about LinkedIn in my communication 318 class last quarter. I learned how you can use LinkedIn to keep social networking open, communication with others in your desired field, set up internships or jobs, and to overall just portray who you are as a person.
YouTube:
“When talking of social media, people forget that YouTube is a very useful social media tool that can be used for more purposes than to share music videos and personal video logs. There are almost 15,000 videos uploaded on YouTube every single day.” I personally have never put too much thought into thinking of YouTube as social media but in reality it is because it is connecting millions of people to social media every day. It could be music, an informational piece, to do instructions, etc. A positive aspect to YouTube is that it is cost effective “It is an excellent way to reach out to millions of viewers.”
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