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In this catgory we will talk mostly Twitter and Facebook, there are a few others mentioned but these are the most widely used.  You can start off with services such as Facebook straight away,  presuming you already have friends and family on there which means you can start the ball rolling there as quickly as you need to.  Communication like this is much simpler than other forms, you have possible fans within your first few circles of friends and as they are friends could also help you promote yourself in the beginning.

Fan pages are a must in the realms of social media, you can edit them so that they can display your content automaticaly, (such as with a blog’s feed),  If you don’t put any links to your own web pages from these websites they are obviously going to stay there and not visit your website instead.  Once set up with certain applications they can be left to do their own job, you are free to concentrate on other areas.

Social Network Services List
  • Twitter
  • Orcut
  • Multiply
  • Badoo
  • StuiVZ
  • Google/Yahoo Groups
  • Brightkite.com
  • wikipedia.com
  • facebook.com – social media / community
  • ning.com – create own social networks with ning
  • bolt.com – social networking service
  • bebo.com – social networking
  • blippr.com – 160 characters review, discuss media
  • linkedin.com – business networking
Groups/Fans

Updating Social Services

There are many tools which can help with passing on news for you.  Just like some of the plugins or apps on Facebook, you can spread your newly published news much more quickly.  There is no need to go to each individual social site your are registered on.  Input a summary of your news to the following services and the job will be done in one fell.  You are not limited to being at the service either.  By e-mail, text or chat, you can spread the word.

  • Ping.fm
  • Hootsuite.com
  • Seesmic.com

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