A glimpse at social media coming into 2010. A slide-show by DreamGrow.
Get prepared and start jumping on social media now!

Part 2: Networking Using Twitter

Why Twitter?  Believe it or not, your interests, desires, talents are actually important and interesting to others in the world.  Twitter limits you to 140 characters to express whatever you want through what is called a ‘tweet’. So why should I use this service? Read on…

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Part 1: Networking using Facebook

I still meet people who don’t understand why social media is important. They feel it is a huge waste of time and that the only real way to build these connections is through in person meetings and networking/social events. Though in-person meetings are a great way to network and should be the next step after connecting through social media sites, you are limiting yourself to your restricted area. The networking/social websites available to us takes this networking opportunity worldwide. We have the ‘world at our fingertips’ per say.

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Facebook added the feature to tag people, fan pages and events in your status updates. In this post you will find written steps to tag and also a video explaining how to tag peoples names in Facebook status updates. Here I will share with you how to go about doing it and why it is useful.

1. Here is an example of a status update I recently did that tags people within it.

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Discover breaking news on the web with real-time updates from news, blogs and social networks on Google real time search.

Never used TweetDeck before or new to TweetDeck? Check out this video.

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A Wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages. -Wikipedia

Many people have found using Wikis helpful in collaborating group work projects, group trips and anything where a number of peoples input is needed.

Here are a couple great articles on using Wikis for business. article1 article2

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