Put the SOCIAL in Social Networking!

I read a question this morning that made me realize that I needed to connect digiscrappers, bloggers & designers/store owners with more tools. So I’m going to do a series on Social Networking. You’ll see that it’s closely related to personal branding.

The web has many opportunities for networking with others. Why would you want to do that? There are many advantages:

• participate in the purpose of that site (ie: Kaboodle is all about shopping!)
• to meet people with similar interests & share ideas
• use the same log-in everywhere & increase your online presence
• it gets you out of your comfortable home blog/store surroundings to see the world
• encourages collaboration

First maybe we need to ask what is social networking? Just by reading this blog you’re already doing it. You can do it on forums, podcasts, wikis, etc. This series will explore the applications for social networking and show you ways to get involved. I hope that we can generate some ideas to creatively use them in the digiscrapping community.

Facebook, Kaboodle, LinkedIn (Networking)

Stumbleupon (a unique way to find new sites & highlight great information)

Twitter, Pownce (Communication & File Sharing)

del.icio.us, blinklist, trailfire (Social bookmarking)

Flickr (Photo Sharing)

There are many others like Digg, Reddit, mag.nolia etc but I haven’t found them overly useful.

Do you have others that you use regularly & really like?

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