Social media is the sharing of media with others through the internet. Internet sharing solutions are in constant change, reform and improvement and it seems as though solutions to media sharing are going public on a daily basis. One of the first places to start research on Social Media solutions is mashable.com. Mashable is a site offering a collection of blogs on social media and offering options to various media solutions.
A few of the more major social media sites being talked about these days are twitter.com, youtube.com and flickr.com. As these sites have gained popularity other sites have been designed to offer the ability to use other options. Now with the use of these new sites you are able to tweet status updates, pictures, videos, personal files, share documents, and much more.
Reasons to share media is to create and encourage connections between people on a one-to-one, one-to-many or many-to-many relationships. Depending on what you are looking to share solutions are available.
1. Photos: Flickr.com, Webshots.com, and smugmug.com.
2. Videos: YouTube.com, vimeo.com, and metacafe.com.
3. Files: docs.google.com, zoho.com, 4shared.com.
As social media solutions continue to become available and people and organizations continue to see the possibilities offered by sharing sites relationships will be formed and strengthened. This improvement will transform the way people interact and how businesses are run.
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I will try mashable.com to see how helpful it could be in educational setting. I completely agree with the one-to-one connection and cooperation mode that may enhance any classroom when there are computers for every single student. I would like to mention that through social media the opportunities to become part of this technological movement increase with each type of Web 2.0 service acquired.
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