So far I have encouraged you to set up email address and then a feed reader to keep up to date with blogs, news etc. It is important not to just join all forms of social media though. The relevance of some services may be very low to you and of course there is also overload, where you have signed up to a number of services and are then bombarded by too much information.
Try asking yourself the following questions:
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- Do you have a hobby or interest that you would like the latest information on?
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- Do you want to use social media to promote your business or product?
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- How much time do you want to spend on social media?
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- Do you want services to help keep you organised?
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- Do you just want to have fun and make new contacts?
The first question is partly covered off by setting up a reader. There are other ways to come across new items in your field of interest, one which I am a big fan of is StumbleUpon and I will talk about how StumbleUpon works in my next post.