Start Somewhere with Social Media

Social media is basically three major activities: listening, connecting and publishing. You use tools like Twitter Search and Google Blogsearch to listen. You use tools like Twitter or Facebook or OPEN Forum or LinkedIn (or a mix of them) to connect, as well as comment on blogs and the like. You use tools like blogs or email newsletters, video or even photos on Flickr to publish. Those are all the components without the hype. (Read the article "Start Somewhere with Social Media" at Open Forum online.)