Facebook has become the social media choice for much of the broadcast news community. Their pages provide an excellent example how this social networking site can be employed to cater to enthusiastic users of a product or service. But it also demonstrates the hazards should the audience turn hostile.
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With over a 100 million active monthly users MySpace is the dominant social networking site. Like most users, you probably have your ID and image completed and have contemplated how you can enhance the appearance of your page. Without too much difficulty, this can be done with a little knowledge of HTML tags and Cascading Style Sheets [CSS]. If you are an active user you will want to have a first impression that says something about you to any new visitor. Read the rest of this entry �
Blogging is an interactive process where visitors to a blog site can leave comments in response to articles or stories, referred to as posts, created by the site owner or publishers. The term “blog” is short for Web Log and was apparently first used in 1997 by Jorn Barger to describe a site he maintained comprised of a list or “log” of links to sites he believed to be of interest. Since then, the development community has developed a variety of content management and blogging applications with a wide range of capabilities that have made the process of publishing content and exchanging ideas almost as simple as creating documents in a word processor. Read the rest of this entry �
Social networking, media and bookmarking sites are another leap for the individual to create, analyze, consume and distribute information or media and collaborate beyond what was possible without vast technical and financial resources just a short time ago. Like anything in life, the more effort you put into these facilities the more you get out. We’ll take a look at the basics of some of the networking sites to help you see what might be of use to you and where to get started. Read the rest of this entry �
