Just getting started using hahstags, the links preceded by the pound sign #, on social media sites or you just don’t really get them? Don’t despair, we’ve rounded up 6 major ways to use them correctly. But first, what are …
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LinkedIn is the largest business-orientated social networking service in the world, with 277 million users, more than 178 million monthly unique visitors and headquarters in the U.S., U.K. and Ireland. If Facebook has changed the way we socialize (and interact with all forms of media, but let’s keep things simple), than LinkedIn has changed the way we look for jobs, and the way jobs look at us.
It is no secret that lists help us organize our priorities. We enjoy reading them, and we enjoy writing them, and they make life easier by giving us a direction and objectives. But, as Adam Savage states in the quote above, making lists can be daunting. What seemed at first to be a fairly straight forward project or plan suddenly transforms into a behemoth of a task, spanning several steps. This should not bring you down, though.
Needless to say, Twitter is a behemoth of a website, with over 500 million registered users, generating a huge amount of new content each day (over 340 million new tweets daily). Anyone who is anyone has a Twitter profile, and that makes it a great way to get information directly from the people you are interested in. As a designer, social networking is something you can really benefit from, as you have no doubt noticed.
Social Media marketing is a fairly new branch of marketing. Social Media has led to an unprecedented spread of information, and today’s consumer is much more informed. This should not be seen as a problem, as much as an opportunity. A good marketer can use social media to maximize his client’s product exposure, giving him a competitive edge in this new era of information.