For anyone that uses Google’s Gmail account you can now join Google Buzz, Google’s latest social media venture, “being an entire new world within Gmail”. Similar to Twitter, Buzz allows you to share either publicly or privately with your followers.
One of the benefits of Buzz is you can link your account to your Picasa, Twitter and Flickr account showing all your updates in Buzz. There is also the option to set individual posts to public or private or even to specific groups you have set up in Buzz so if you wanted to let a certain customer base know about the latest product release or sale you could easily share this information to all your followers. One of my current favorites is that you can associate pictures with Buzz in Google Maps and conversations will appear on Google Maps, allowing you to see what other people are saying nearby. Continue reading