You heard some, joined some, how about the rest?
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Facebook: A social networking site with more than one billion active users. Businesses can create a business page for branding and interacting with their customers. Use Facebook Page Insights to track performance of your page.
Google+: Social site with more than 400 million active users. A place to introduce, connect, follow, share and interact. Create a Google+ Page to share and promote your business. Measurement of your page is made easier with the integrated Google services.
LinkedIn: Businesses and professional networking site with more than 175 million active users. LinkedIn is specially designed for the business community to connect. Create your company profile on the new business page to showcase products & services, get recommendations and connect to members.
Twitter: Microblogging service with more than 500 million active users. Customize your business Twitter profile page to connect interest, share information, and exchange quick, frequent messages. Mark keywords or topics with a hashtag to categorize and show more easily on Twitter Search
YouTube: A video-sharing site with more than 800 million users per month. You can create and customise your Channel according to your corporate identity. Attract viewers to subscribe to your channel by uploading interesting videos. Track your videos with free analytics data YouTube offers to every user.
Pinterest: Online pinboard for organizing and sharing passions with more than 20 million users. Drive traffic by ‘Pinning’ images that are on your site, or you can upload an image and link back to your site.
Gentlemint: Online pinboard targeting at men with more than 12 million users per month. Yes, it’s similar to Pinterest, members communicate visually by posting pictures of ‘manly’ stuff.
Yelp: Local Business Review with more than 71 million active users worldwide. It’s basically like a city guide where people use to search and write reviews for businesses. Beginning 13 Sep 2012, Yelp has launched its services in Singapore.
Scribd: A social publishing site with more than 100 million users. It allows sharing of documents in different formats with embedded links directly to your website without editor review. For best results, include Title, Description and tags for your document when you upload your documents.
SlideShare: Web-based slide hosting service provider with more than 29 million monthly users. You can upload port folios, product introductions or other presentations and link your slides to your website. SlideShare also allows you to track by number of downloads and visits.
Ezinearticles: Social content community for writers with more than 30 million page views monthly. Use it to publish, circulate your original articles and drive traffic to your website. Every article submitted will be reviewed by their human editors for quality.
Flickr: Photo sharing site with more than 50 million registered users. Free to showcase photos of your past works, conferences and events, work processes, etc. Let the pictures be your voice to subtlety send messages across.
Foursquare: Location based mobile social network with more than 25 million registered users and over one million businesses. You will need a business address where people can ‘check in’ to, and let Foursquare track trends, usage, and demographics for you.
Sina Weibo: One of the most popular microblogging sites in China with more than 300 million registered users. A Chinese version of Twitter that has integrated some Facebook functions such as chat, photo and video sharing capabilities. It can be used to build a direct relationship with consumers in China.
Instagram: A social photo-sharing mobile app with 100 million users. Take a picture, edit, add bio and link to your site. Let pictures build your brand and share your expertise. Add hashtags to allow easy search.
About.me: Simply an online business card that offers registered users a simple platform to link multiple online identities. All it takes is one quality image, a unique bio paragraph and all your social media buttons and links below.
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