blog till you drop!

My blog friend C.B Whittemore recently tagged me in 8 more things, the social media meme with one question – what are 8 ways in which you’ve used social media?

1. My blog is my most important and exciting tool to date. I have not only met some wonderful people offline (Chris Brown, Reshma Anand, Organic Frog, Sandrine, Cedric, Steve, Annie Mole… apologies if I have forgotten anyone!) but blogging has also recently changed my life as I am just about to start my new role as a Social Media strategist.

2. Blogging has drastically changed my social media consumption – I created a web 2.0 lanscape last year and it’s very interesting to see how my social media consumption has evolved:

• I no longer use Myspace but I am still a huge fan of Facebook and found a few old friends from university on there
• I use bloglines a lot more than I did last year
• I have at last got round to updating my Linkedin profile and will be using it a lot more in the near future
• I am now using Twitter and Plurk which were not even on my radar last year…

3. Everyone is blogging about Twitter vs. Plurk but I still don’t know which one is the best for me. I love the look and feel of Twitter and follow an exciting community of Twitter friends but I get terribly annoyed by the outages. I do not particularly like the look and feel of Plurk but love the Plurk timeline… To be continued

4. Blogline is my fav tool to keep on top of my reading but I also recently discovered snackr, a cool widget that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop

5. When it comes to my creative side, I use Flickr and Youtube. Although my interaction on both sites is limited, I enjoy posting photos and videos for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

6. Aggregators are currently missing in my tool box! Webjam, Friendfeed (don’t really like the look of it!), Netvibes – which do you recommend and why?

7. Facebook and French website Copains d’avant are a great way to easily keep in touch with your friends and even find lost friends and acquaintances. I recently hooked up with one of my friends from school in France that I hadn’t seen in 13 years!

8. What’s next? Seesmic, dubbed the Twitter of micro-blogging is the next thing on my list…

Now I’d like to tag: Chris Brown, Reshma Anand, Organic Frog, Sandrine, Cedric, Steve, and Willem

And whilst we may be playing with some or maybe all of the above, consumers are, on the other hand playing with the sites shown below!