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After your feeling about the usefulness or not, starting to be part of a social network could be tricky and could be misleading for newcomers. A simple guide about which program to use follows:
- LinkedIn is a professional tool, used by professional to maintain their network of contact without any boundaries, Of course a lot of Head Hunter are present there and for this is a must be for a professional looking for his/hes next challenge. Few partecipation stuffs and more link with Job Seeking world. At the same concept we can include Viadeo and Neurona, the advantage of these two tools is the localization. People in Europe speak a lot of language, while in LinkedIn is almost impossible operate without English knowledge, these other two permit to interact in proper mother tongue. Viadeo is useful to organize events and facilitate social networking outside the Net.
- Spock represent in the Social Networking tools what Google made for the search engines, light and coincise with a possibility to tag each other and to implement ‘word of mouth’ in a on-line version. Also voting is most important, people can say or add or note something and others could demonstrate if they agree or disagree in a polling way.
- Facebook is your life on the Net, everything you can make you can add to your profile with a lot of applications (widget) you can add.
- Naymz is the reference tool, all the system is based on the reputation you have, you can gain and you can lose.
- Other tool are present and have some limits jointly with some plus, often they offer localized content and localized or vertical professional in them, between those: like Ryze, hi5, Ecademy, Doonstag, Ciwi, Xing, Konnect, SuccessBC, Zubka.
- For sure I can hint the presence on the four above in the title, … and don’t forget to link myself 🙂
Happy networking e don’t forget to enrich them with a concrete real life networking.