Social Media is not a Synonymus for Chat!

Let me allow to start the blog with one question.
Do you have any account in Orkut?
Do you know how to use it?

             What a silly question I am asking. Surely you are familiar with Orkut. I guess you also have an account in Facebook, linkedin, Twitter etc. Did you ever think about the real and factual usage of it?

              You all will be aware of the fact that now Orkut, Facebook and Linkedin etc. are not only meant for sending photos, commens, scraps and photo uploads. Its use is beyond that. We can launch our product more effectively through networking by using social Media. Building the company with social media is an easy and effective tool.

Here one question arises that "What is social media?"

            "Social media describes websites that allow users to share content and making relation. It is called Relationship building management."

             Social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways to interact, such as e-mail, blogging, instant messaging and photo sharing.The 4Cs of social media are: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence.

             Relation building is very effective and required tool for marketing. It is going to be mandatory for everyone in future who wants to survive in tomorrow's competitive world. We can understand this concept with the help of one conversation.

Example:
Person A: I am a marketer.
Person B: I blog about marketing.
Person C: I have a podcast about marketing bloggers.
Person D: I tweet about podcasters that talk about marketing bloggers.
Person E: I have a Facebook group for twitter users that tweet about podcasters that talk about marketing bloggers.

              What it means? Now each person is connected to other one through Social Media. They have built their network so messily so that they can grow rapidly. Lots of companies like,Neytri (India's Largest Business Media Portal) is promoting themselves and make huge revenue by social sphere (http://www.neytri.com/). Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it has become part of life now.

# Some social networks are listed below according to the rank in all over world:
1) Facebook (Networking)
2) MySpace
3) Youtube(Video sharing)
4) Tagged
5) Yahoo! Answers
6) Twitter(Microblogging)
7) Yahoo! Profiles
8) myYearbook
9) Windows Live Home
10) Meebo
&
16) LinkedIn(in Corporate)
19) Hi5
21)Orkut
         
You will be surprised to know that Orkut is not even standing among top 10 social media sites of the world. Orkut is only prominent in India while Facebook is most visited social media site by users of other countries. We can take reference from world map also.

As a future manager, I want to keep you attention to these social networking sites,which helps us to accommodate ourselves with the changing face of future working environment which helps us to furnish our task more effectively and quickly.

   
Let’s take a promise to being a part of this social media for our better relationship with others and also helps us to grow more rapidly.

These all tools are waiting for you. It’s a humble request to try and learn it. Happy hunting of Social Media!

(*All 3 graphics are taken from internet; it is not made by me.)