Social Networking

Hey Irie Bloggers,
Today we will be talking about social media and corporations. More businesses are recognizing their need for social media every day. However, there’s more to it than opening an account and posting on it. Social networks are the first avenue that consumers take to connect with you. If they believe you don’t care about them, they won’t make the effort to reach out. Social media is not only for communicating with consumers, but also with other businesses. This mode of engagement is on the rise and the consumers love seeing cross brand interaction. It’s not easy to strike the right balance between taking a conversational approach to social media and still promoting your product or service, but the payoff is so worth it. Among other benefits, good customer relations on social can make your company stand out to consumers as a leader in your industry and double your potential sales leads. So now you see social media is not just for communicating with friends but to also network with people to build a brand or business. developing a strong network via the internet to help your business flourish without having to do much blitzing and physical networking . Smart, if you might ask me. Well until next time Irie Bloggers, Walk Good!





Read more also here: http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/how-corporations-should-be-using-social-media/617103

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'Howdy do' and welcome to another blog session, today we will be looking at three social networking sites; Facebook, Myspace and YouTube. The thing about both of these online community programs is that they can be used to get your information to family and friends. They are both good programs for meeting people. Though, when you compare the two, you see there are some real differences. Below are a few comparisons about these two programs:

• Myspace is an online community that has several options open for sharing information, posting pictures, adding your own music and videos and much more. There is more of an entertainment-based interface being used.

• Facebook uses a cleaner more basic interface that has options for posting pictures, information, and stories in addition to other learning information. There is not a great deal of hype and the overall look is basic, not flashy. 

• Myspace is targeted to many different age levels. Myspace has users that are from different ages and backgrounds.

• Facebook is targeted to the college age levels. In fact this was started specifically as a Harvard Student used tool.

• Myspace has been around for many years, and has a great deal of information, tools, and layouts that have been updated. They are in the full swing of the full function of this online community program.

• Facebook is relatively new to the public. The layout leaves a person able to find what they need without a great deal of information. However because this is a younger program, there will still be plenty of steps to go before it is complete.

• Myspace can look pretty much however you like. There are many layouts, generators and other graphics that are set up to work within the Myspace environment.

• Facebook has a basic look, and does not appear to be changing that at this time. However, you never know what the future holds.

• Myspace has places for slide shows and other picture options.

• Facebook has nice picture album setups.

• Myspace has places for blogs, information, etc.

• Facebook has places for blogs, information etc. However, there is also a running history of changes that have recently occurred. This is nice for friends and family to be able to see what changes have been made.

• Myspace leaves some open issues for unwanted eyes. However there are ways to block all but family members and friends from seeing the private information on your Myspace site.

• Facebook has some information available for viewing. However a request must be sent in all cases for new friends etc. to be added to the friend list.

• Myspace has more information showing, if you do not make your settings private. The problem with this is that there are many people who do not make this setting and can be very surprised with the unwanted spam they will get.
• YouTube has a wide range of videos and unlike Facebook,  you can subscribe to these different pages to continue seeing similar videos.
• You can like, unlike and comment under the videos even  if you don't have an account
• You can share the videos to your other social networks