Social Networking at its best...

Ok so as you know I am currently enrolled in an Internet PR course. Our instructor wants us to us Twitter.

If you do not know what that is you can find out here: http://twitter.com/help/aboutus

I set up my account today which was fun and new, but it got me thinking about how many other sites do people use today to network and get there name out there. Now I know there are a whole lot of sites out there. Take for example Facebook, more and more businesses join everyday, Myspace same thing and some of you may have never heard of sites such as Jaiku and Pownce for microblogging.

Now if you are anything like me you have no idea what those last two were either. So I did a little research.

To find out more about Jaiku: http://www.jaiku.com/
To find out more about Pownce: http://pownce.com/

To me it seems like there are a lot of resources out there but most of them mirror each other. I thought that Pownce was kind of like a twitter account and that Jaiku was more of a facebook account.

After I finished setting up my Twitter account I found a blog written by Brian Solis talking about facebook and how it is becoming the place everyone is going to sell their personal brand.

http://www.briansolis.com/2008/09/facebook-is-hub-for-your-personal-brand.html

I find it neat how myspace and facebook started out as a place were college students and graduates could keep in touch with there friends and has now turned into a valuable tool to many business to get their name out there.