June 13, 2007 by Dave Earley
Filed under Media, Online, Social Networking, Technology
Social networking is all the rage at the moment.
I’ve signed up to a few popular sites to see how useful they are – and because I’m a complete nerd. I did hold off for a quite a while on signing up to some of these, but I now feel it’s almost a responsibility to be involved and try to understand them more.
I honestly haven’t put much effort into expanding my social networks across these sites yet, and hadn’t visited some for several months before writing this post.
I’m on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, Friendster… probably something else, but I can’t remember at the moment.
You can read about Twitter in this article in The Australian yesterday, where it’s suggested Twitter may not be a complete waste of time.
“There are people who talk about their frivolous daily activities,” Owyang says.
“I remove them. For me it’s more of a business communication tool than a frivolous personal introspection tool.”
LinkedIn has been described as invaluable for professional and career networking. The following is a profile link promotion button. It will probably be part of a future redesign of earleyedition.com.
And Twitter has been described as inane, which of course it can be, as can blogs. But there are useful ones out there too. The badge below may be incorporated into that redesign I mentioned.
