Topic 5 - Key Platforms/ Key Social Media Platforms

Key Social Media Platforms

 

There are many social media platforms that organizations can use.  For example:
  * Facebook --social networking
   One of the most popular social media platform in the world. It's the top 1 social media platform being used in Australia.

  * Micro-blogging: Twitter
    The Twitter platform is used by 94% of marketers. Total visits in May 2009 were 134 million ; with 32 million unique visitors in April 2009. What's more, the answers question in short sentences of 140 characters or less.

  * Blogs 
    Currently there are 12,9 million active blogs with more than 5 billion readers.

  * Linkedin
   Linkedin is a kind of professional social media platform. So far, it is far more than just  50 million professionals to exchange the information and business networking.

  * RSS
   allow people to subscribe the websites or blog that they like. It's time-saving for reader to search the information online and easy to follow and update the staff that they like.

  * Youtube - vedio sharing
   For many organization, youtube still is an underutilized resource.

  * Flickr - photo sharing.
  People can put the favourite phone online.

  * Social Bookmarking
  Sovial Bookmarking allow users to save or tag or manage or share the web pages that they like.

  * Podcasts
 Podcasts usually is digital audio or video, which is released regularlly and made available for download by means of web syndication.

  * Chatrooms
  Build the network yourself that you would like to share something with others.




Reference:

D. Walsh. April 2, 2012. Six Key Social Playform For Busy Professionals. Retried from:  http://deswalsh.com/2012/04/02/six-key-social-platforms-for-busy-professionals/

Virtual Project Consulting. 2013. Retried from: http://www.virtualprojectconsulting.com/11-key-social-media-tools/