Last time in Vienna I met the lovely and dedicated Meral Akin-Hecke, who initiated digitalks. digitalks is a series of events that are bringing Social Media to people who have heard of Web 2.0, but don’t know exactly what it’s all about. The first of a series of ten workshops, which are being held at [...]

Which Social Media should you use? The answer to this question is unfortunately not that easy. It depends on a range of factors, as well as their combination and the correlations between them. Different Social Media platforms and applications have different uses. Here is a range of objectives that need to be examined in order [...]

This time on What are Social Media we are looking at the probing question: Why should you use Social Media? There are a number of ways you can profit from using Social Media tools and networks – personally and professionally. Here are some of the most common reasons for people to use Social Media in [...]

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