This week’s tutorials were Foursquare and LinkedId both
social media platform are used for finding places, information, and also networking
with others. In Foursquare I found that like Yelp! It provides directions to
places, gives information about the place, it allows for people to provide
feedback about their experience and even share pictures with others. When I
think about LinkedId one site comes to mind and that is Monster.com. I believe
that Monster.com has been in the business of helping others in finding jobs
longer. However, it does not provide members with networking opportunities with
other applicants in the same way as LinkedId. I am amaze on how many different
social media platforms exist. Some of the ones that have been discussed in
class I would have never have classified them as being social media sites and
most likely If I have a need for their use, in my mind the idea of using them for
other reasons aside to gathering
information will probably never happen.
However, there are quite a few sites that I will definitely come back and visit
including becoming a member (hopefully a regular user) and who knows may be
discover other ways that these sites can be useful to me and my job as a
librarian.
