Ryan Ozawa, one of our better-known bloggers on Oahu, invited me to this month’s Manoa Geeks meeting, which will be held at the HMSA building in Honolulu tonight. Details are available here.
This year I’ve set up some landing pages for my social networking services:
- A Facebook page with an expanded badge that lists my recent blog articles, and a list of my posts about Facebook
- A FriendFeed page that lists my activity on that service and several other social networking services. I have discovered FriendFeed groups on Facebook and LinkedIn, too.
- A LinkedIn page with my profile badge and my articles about LinkedIn, the most popular of all the professional social networks right now.
I’ve used social networking services for a few years, but I’ve really expanded my online activities in the last 3 months. I started using Seesmic this week, and I’m also on Plurk. It’s a good way to network, and to recruit new readers for the billso.com blog.
If you’re interested in exploring these services, or you’re wondering what the benefits might be, I suggest reading two articles by Andy DeSoto, a blogger at the College of William and Mary in Virginia:
- 28 July 2008: Filtering: Why FriendFeed is taking the web to the next level
- 9 July 2008: An Ultimate Guide to Social Media Simplification
