My Social Media Toolkit: What’s yours?
After reading blogger Dave Fleet’s post on “What’s in your social media toolkit?” I decided to compile a list of my social media toolkit. I have to comment that I am a fairly moderate social media user (I am not sure if I have the correct term here). I take time to try out social media apps. but stick to few which give me real value…
My Social media toolkit consists of:
1. Facebook – to connect with people and learn about social networking events.
2. Twitter – to connect, share and build conversations around interesting topics.
3. LinkedIn – to build a professional network.
4. Plaxo – for syncing between tools (I am still trying to get it).
5. WordPress – for blogging about my research and things that I find interesting and worthwhile to write about.
6. Friendfeed – for syncing between tools (Twitter and Facebook).
7. Google Reader - to subscribe to blogs that I find interesting.
8. Delicious – I am on it but I don’t use much.
9. I do have a flickr, slideshare, YouTube account, but I haven’t used them much as of now.
What are the social media tools that you are using? How are they enhancing your professional or personal life? Let me know maybe I can benefit from them.
7 comments
Interestingly, mine’s pretty similar to yours. Yours+Orkut-Plaxo-Delicious.
Really good post- wud like to add my thots:
I am using facebook, orkut, twitter and Linkedin-
Facebook- is for connecting with my offline friends
Orkut- is for meeting strangers and adding them, orkut’s success in india was due to two reasons- 1) in 2003-2004 govt applied quota for girls in engg colleges and hence lot of female profile on orkut pulled the crowd in (in my opinion) 2) orkut was open – point of meeting strangers
Twitter is for gathering info
Linkedin is an online CV
@rana thanks for your comments. Do you have any data to back up the two reasons for Orkut’s success in India. I am curious to know why orkut is more successful in India.
@pratik. thanks for your comments.
@admin I have no data to support however, what I feel is that Orkut entered India at right time, at that time most of the private engineering colleges were producing there first batches
Priyanka – Interesting stuff!
My top 3 picks – Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Then there are many, i guess all are mentioned here. I remember using Ryze in India way back and I think, you were in that as well …
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Amita, Thanks. Yes, I was using Ryze way back in India. I might still have a profile there, although I never use it anymore…Yeah, sure I would like a demo of ObjectiveMarketer…
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