3 Valuable and Not-so-valuable social media tools

The Big 3 social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) are definitely my favorite and most valuable social media tools.

Facebook is already part of my social life as I use it to connect with my friends daily. There are still more things I can learn about it, especially on its business application.

Twitter is great for getting the latest word out there in real time. Also, it allows me to follow people that I admire and would like to learn from easily.

LinkedIn is relatively new to me as I'm exploring its functions. However, it has become the standard for building business and professional connections, so it will be definitely useful as I learn more.


The 3 not-so-valuable social media tools are Hootsuite, bit.ly (shorten link), and Google Reader.

I'm having difficulty with bit.ly as I would like to rename the link so that it'll make sense to me and my audiences. However, it is not always easy to come up with a unique name every time. I'm seeing other people using the shorten link as it is (shorten names that doesn't mean anything) in their tweets, so I can see that it is sort of the standard and very useful to satisfy the 140 character per tweet limit.

Hootsuite and Google Reader are tools that capture updates and list them in an easy to read format. However, as I'm used to visiting the website directly for updates. They have not yet been very useful to me.