What is the point of using social media? (for businesses)
(this seems to be reading more like an article than a blog so I likely won't publish this here and will revamp it in an article)
Jumping right to the point one of the first reasons for any business to make use of social media is because it's where online consumers are at. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and many other social websites have managed to eat up the majority of web users attention span. If you want to reach those potential customers on the internet then you should be in their playground so to speak.
The amount of users on these sites has increased exponentially in the last few years and the amount of time those users spend on these sites has generally increased as well. When you consider statistics like this: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/02/total-us-time-spent-on-facebook-up-700-in-the-last-year/ you can see you'd be missing the point if you didn't use social media in some form.
So what is social media and how do you use it?
In terms of the technical world a simplified definition would be that social media refers to websites and web communities that allow their users to engage interactively on a given site. Some are very simple like Twitter and offer minimal means of communication yet users who love these websites find ways to make the most of the limited capabilities provided.
The amount of users on these sites has increased exponentially in the last few years and the amount of time those users spend on these sites has generally increased as well. When you consider statistics like this: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/02/total-us-time-spent-on-facebook-up-700-in-the-last-year/ you can see you'd be missing the point if you didn't use social media in some form.
So what is social media and how do you use it?
In terms of the technical world a simplified definition would be that social media refers to websites and web communities that allow their users to engage interactively on a given site. Some are very simple like Twitter and offer minimal means of communication yet users who love these websites find ways to make the most of the limited capabilities provided.
SEO news blog post by Jonathan at 7:02 PM
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