10 Social Media Sites for Businesses
Social media is make up by a variety of components. Blogs, forums, media-sharing, networking…and these are all driven by the integration of human communication and connections. Making use of the technology, everyone can express themselves and share their thoughts through the social media platforms. Many businesses are trying to advertise themselves and gather data through social media sites – IBM even opens up its own social network site. Here are my 10 recommended sites for businesseses:
- Twitter – The rapid growing microblogging site allowing users to read and follow others’ updates. A great platform to track costumer responses and businesses trends, spread and collect information.
- Wordpress – Wordpress is one of the best blogging community over the internet. With a strong support of users and plugins, you could easily build an advertisement blog.
- YouTube – The world’s largest video streaming community. You could upload the company’s latest ad, start a video campaign – Anything you can think of.
- LinkedIn – Connect with other professionals in the industry, share and ask questions. List job and seek for potential employees.
- Facebook – The fastest growing social networking site that surpassed Myspace not long ago. You could create a fan page for your business, advertise to targeted costumers, or perhaps create applications that might help your promotion.
- Delicious – The most active and largest social bookmarking site. Organize and exchange useful links!
- Wikipdeia – The famous online encyclopedia. You could setup a page to explain your business to those who are interested and research for any necessary information through the community.
- Xing – A business networking site for you to search and build your professionals contacts through their contact manager.
- Ning – You might want to create your own social network and keep in touch with your customers, friends, or colleagues. Ning provides the platform and allow users to create their own base of social networking.
- Yes, I left out the last one out on purpose. It’s impossible to squeeze all potential social media websites on the list. You are welcomed to recommend any new sites and share your thoughts!
