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Making sense of the growing world of social media Facebook Social Networking Used to: Find/add your friends, share content, send messages, chat live. Facebook Apps allow you to play games, integrate with activity at other sites (i.e. Pinterest, Netflix, Jango), and more.
Pinterest Content Community Used to: Collect, organize, and share images and videos you find on the web. You can view activity by individual board, all pinners you follow, everyone, categories (Gardening, Geek), or even price range.
Good for: Staying connected to friends and family, sharing information, promoting your business/interests, creeping on your old crush from high school.
Good for: Wedding planning, home decorating, organizing recipes, recommending products, showing off your fantastic sense of style, intellectual taste in books, or love of fuzzy animals.
Data: 14m+ Canadians on Facebook. 1,231,960 BC Women. 1,063,00 BC Men
Data: 68.2% Women, 50% have children. The majority of users are between ages of 25-44
LinkedIn Professional Networking Used to: Your individual profile acts as an online resume, including references. You can also include links to your website, blog, or Twitter feed and join groups to participate in discussions. Individuals add connections (coworkers, classmates, colleagues, etc) to network. Companies can establish themselves on LinkedIn with a company profile, which individuals can follow. Good for: Career opportunities/job inquiries, reconnecting with previous co-workers, requesting recommendations, recruiting, business promotion.
CBCMusic Music Community Used to: Listen to free online music, access legal downloads or purchase music, visit artist pages, follow artists, participate in discussions in the blogs, create a profile and playlists, and share your discoveries and your playlists with your friends via Facebook, Twitter, or email. Good for: A wide variety of free music 24/7, commercial-free, plus CBC Radio3 supports Canadian independent artists and CBC Radio 2 has the ‘All Lightfoot’ Gordon Lightfoot channel–a must for every Canadian. Data: music.cbc.ca 29365 artists. 40 Music Channels. 14 Different Communities
Data: 2 new professionals sign up every second. 88, 508 BC Women. 104,143 BC Men
Wordpress YouTube Content Community Used to: Upload, view, share, and discuss videos. You can also create playlists. Good for: Everything from private video sharing, to homemade instructional videos, to large marketing campaigns and impromptu Muppet Show dance parties. Data: There are more YouTube video uploads in one month than created by the 3 major US networks over the last 6 decades.
Content Community Used to: A CMS (Content Management System) used for blogs, online communities, online portfolios, company websites, and more. Wordpress. com is a blogging community.Wordpress.org is an online community for people with self-hosted Wordpress sites. Good for: A useful platform for personal blogs, small to large businesses, nonprofit organizations, and other groups. Data: 73m WordPress sites worldwide. The Vancouver Wordpress Meetup Group (784 members). Victoria WordPress User Group (477 members). Similar: Blogger
Tanya Bennett lives in East Vancouver with her partner and two children. She owns Full Serve Web, Inc which creates websites, social media, & project management, facilitates workshops, and is the co-founder of ReadySetNet.ca. Tanya invites you to join her on Twitter @fullserve
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