Social media campaign - emerging trend of 2007!

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Posted by Deelip Kumar 0 comments
Internet marketing - emerging trend of 2007 is Social media marketing.
Social Media Marketing
Are you ready to take the advantage of this? First of all I want to introduce what it is? and how it works?

Social media describes the tools and applications that people use to share their experiences, opinions, insights and perspectives with each other. In my previous post Top 10 Searches of 2006 it includes so many social network websites such as myspace, radioblog, wikipedia etc. It can take many forms like audio, video, images and text. Popular medium includes blogs, podcasts, wikis etc.

Blogs:One of the most popular form of social media is blogs. Blogs are online journals consisting regularly updated entries. You can take advantage of blogs for branding purpose as well as in global popularity.

Social Networks: This type of website allows you to easily communicate and share your ideas to other people connected in this network. One of the popular example of social networks is Myspace.

Wikis: These types of websites allow people to add informative content or edit the existing content.

Podcasts: audio and video files that are available by subscription.

Examples of Social media marketing

Examples of top social media services are:
1. Myspace (A platfrom for blogging)
2. YouTube (A Videoblogging platform)
3. Digg (A platform for news sharing)
4. del.icio.us (A bookmark sharing platform)
5. Reddit (A news sharing platform)
6. Flickr (A photosharing platform)

How you can take benefit of social media marketing campaign?
Blogs are written in personal style and it shows credibility. Take advantage of links and comments. Subscription via RSS technology, ultimately you will get global popularity, that also helps in viral marketing.
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