Using the list of
reasons to use Social Media provided by Lilach Bullock in her blog on Social-Able of Top 10
Reasons to use Social Media I thought it would be a good starting point for
job seekers or career transition people; so, from Lilach’s reason list we have:
Reason To Use Social Media
- Build relationships
- Network with like-minded people
- Drive traffic to our website(s)
- Sell our service/products
- Show our expertise
- Get support & motivation
- Organise & promote events
- Integrate with other websites
- An alternative to a website
- Monitor your brand awareness
Some of the Tools to utilize
to support the ‘Reason’
1)
LinkedIn, Google+,
Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, Gist, Blog, Vizualize.Me,
Slideshare, Box.Net,
BranchOut, Hootsuite, Bit.ly, goo.gl, Mirror.Me, BeKnown
2)
LinkedIn, Facebook,
Google+, Twitter, Quora, BeKnown, Gist, Plaxo, Ning, Xing, RSS,
Hootsuite, Tweetdeck,
Bit.ly, goo.gl
3)
About.Me, Skillpages, Twitter,
RSS, Prezi, Tumblr
4)
LinkedIn, About. Me,
Facebook, Twitter, Indeed, Social-Hire, Wordle, Tumblr, Bit.ly,
Goo.gl
5)
LinkedIn (Groups,
Answers), Google+,
Blog. Slideshare, Skillpages, Talent.Me,
Quora, Prezi,
Tumblr, Mirror.Me
6)
Facebook, Google+, Twitter,
Quora,
Blog
7)
Eventbrite, LinkedIn,
Facebook,
Google+, Plancast, Twitter, Box.Net, Bit.ly,
goo.gl
8)
Google+, Twitter, Box
Net, RSS, Dropbox, Box.Net, Slideshare
9)
Blog, Google, About.Me,
Tumblr
10)
Google Alerts, iGoogle,
Hootsuite, Tweetdeck
The list is by no
means complete, new and/or improved ones are appearing. If you know of others and would like to share
them – with your thoughts – please do.
