Taking Advantage of New Media

October 13, 2007 in Technology by LwEEs

Is not a secret that I’m a big advocate of social media and almost every new media idea that rolls out on the web, I try to get as many people as I can get in my profiles without looking like a spammer. Each one of the social media/microbloggin/myspace-type sites that are available right now have very different attributes that can work for you or annoy you if you don’t control them. I got into Jaiku a couple weeks ego, I like the way you can add feeds to the mix. Jaiku was bought by Google last week, hopefully they won’t change its functionality as they are ok now.

The questions that now I ask myself is what to do with all these sites to benefit my blog, how can I attract people to my blog my making an interesting social site space. The first step is to define the audience on each one of them, we know that most people use MySpace. Younger people use Facebook while micro blogging is used by a selected group of people. The experiment I’m going to try is to talk more about iPods, iPhone, and PSP on my MySpace and Facebook accounts, news will be left to update Twitter and Jaiku.

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