6-2 Blog: Social Media Tools

 Listed below are three social media tools that I feel are successful at connecting its users to a wide range of people all around the world no matter where you are. I feel each tool provides its own service directly connecting its users to the services they seek.

1.          LinkedIn-A social network tool that allows users to connect with other professionals and businesses. Assuring that their users are always linked in within the professional community.

www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-connelly/72/a29/2a7/ This link is an example of my LinkedIn profile showing my professional background. I share this profile with hiring businesses and other professionals within the LinkedIn network.

2.            Vine- A Video profile social media tool that allows users to share short videos to their own community of followers that allows other users to share and like the videos that other users post. The popular the video the more people it will reach, giving users the opportunity to connect with others around the world. Vine enhances the delivery of information by giving users the instant access of sending or receiving personal, informational, promotional short videos.

https://vine.co/v/hPrwjVVQQ2T This link shows a good example of how Samsung Mobile promoted their Galaxy S3 Note Pen usine the social media tool Vine.

3.            Twitter- A social media network that connects to people and users all over the world, composing and transmitting messages in 140-characters or less blurbs. This tool allows its users to gain access to information at a rapid pace by reading and sharing these messages referred to as “tweets”. Twitter enhances the delivery of information by sharing current posts the moment they are shared online by its composers. Whether it is a business, media outlet, celebrity, athlete, family or friend twitter keeps its users up to date on their latest news.

https://twitter.com/KatieDavisBurps This link shows a great example of the social media tool in use by writer Katie Davis of KatieDavis.com. 

            Out of the three social media tools I feel Twitter is the most effective when providing services for its users, because there is no limit to what you can market in your own style delivering information instantly to its users within the twitter network. LinkedIn serves its purpose as being a powerful social networking tool but is only business oriented, connecting its users to many professionals around the world. Vine is the least effective because its user are only limited to delivering six seconds of information to other uses, but the six seconds given can be used to get the point across.