Top Social Media Sites for Students – For every purpose If you are a college student you must be having one or the other social media profile. It has been found by a recent study that 84% of university students have Facebook profiles. However, are you aware of the fact that there exist several other social media Magazine, networks that cater specifically to students? They help you network, collaborate, communicate, and make your college tasks a bit easier. Most importantly, all of them offer free services also. Here are few sites that you must definitely try out 1) Box.net: Yes, businesses use this site, and you might think about using it, too, to share content with peers, other students and even with your alumni friends. While this application is similar to GoogleDocs, you have mobile access with Box.net as well as fax agreements, the ability to print and ship using FedEx and much more. Box.net offers a free trial and a free ‘lite’ service. The next step up is less than ten dollars per month. 2) Evernote.com: This site is insanely easy to use…so much so that it can become addictive. Use it to keep notes (never lose a phone number again!), save ideas and get inspired. You can snap a photo of a business card with your phone and have an easy way to store and access contacts, plan trips, research Web sites and clip pages directly from your browser and more. You even can send your tweets directly into Evernote. 3) SpiderOak.com: SpiderOak offers a different approach to online backup by combining a suite of services into one consolidated tool — free online backup, synchronization, sharing, remote access, and storage. This difference is further measured in their zero-knowledge privacy policy, which is the first one ever employed in this setting. Their flexible design allows you to handle data from any operating system (Mac, Windows and Linux) or location (external drives, network volumes, USB keys, etc.) by using just one centralized account. 4) CampusBooks.com: While this is not the only site to buy and sell textbooks, we like this application because it uses an iPhone app, price tweets, price alerts and the ability to compare prices. Not only can you save up to 95 percent on textbooks, you have one of the largest supplies of textbooks online through this site. Be sure to sell your textbooks as soon as possible after using them…the next edition will knock the price down on your used book by as much as half or more. 5) LibraryThing.com: Catalog your books from over 690 world libraries, get free early reviewer books, and join for free or for a $25 per lifetime membership. This site is both a valuable resource for study materials as well as an addiction that can last a lifetime. 6) http://alleydog.ning.com/: This is a new but growing social media site for psychology students from around the world. Get in on the ground floor to build a network that you can use after you graduate. 7) CommunityWalk.com: New to campus? Or, do you need to create maps for your favorite places so you can determine how to save gas or footsteps? Use this site to create personal or community maps with friends. Show the map of a blog, add photos, videos and comments to personalize your journey.
8) RateMyProfessors.com: More than a review site, this community provides forums, contests, grant information and more as students gather to rate professors and watch as professor’s strike back. 9) Zumeo.com: You may enjoy this career network site, where you can get matched to internships as well as jobs. Learn more about your strengths, get connected with people who can help you get ahead and get matched to relevant jobs. Build a great peer student network here so, as alumni, you can help each other out after college, too. This social site also sports recruiters, universities and employers who want to connect with you as much as you want to connect with them. 10) Gradefund.com: Wish you could get paid for getting good grades? Welcome to Gradefund, where sponsors donate money to students if they achieve good grades. Just create an account, invite your friends and family to be sponsors, upload your academic transcript at the end of each semester and once Gradefund verifies it, you’ll get paid. Sponsors can donate to a student, a school or to an educational cause. If donating to a student, you can choose to have the money sent directly to the student, or to be subtracted from their tuition. You also get to choose the rate (as little as $5 per grade). To read more on Social Media Guide or my Next Post- Top 7 social media guides to follow on twitter Visit SEO-SMO.NET