A personal communication tool kit

In this post I'm discussing different communication tools and their purposes of uses.

Now as we're at the very end of this summer course, I have built my own tool kit for social communication. I've divided the tool kit to five different segments:

1. Personal communication
2. Professional communication
3. Collaboration
4. Education
5. Entertainment

1.) Let's start with personal communication. Personally I find Facebook the most effective and easiest way to share especially my personal information, pictures and keep in touch with friends. I use Facebook mainly for personal communication. Sometimes I might share some information about our studies with my school colleagues. I also read blogs, mainly for entertainment on my free time.

2.) For me it's important being able to keep the personal life apart from professional aspect of life. Therefore I'd prefer using different tools for professional communication. However I haven't yet used any social communication tools in my job, excluding e-mail. So far I've communicated via phones. In the future I'm surely going to use different "Intra-nets" and Skype.

3.) In collaboration, Facebook and GoogleDocs fits the best for me.

4.) For educational use, Wikipedia is essential. I also search for informative videos on YouTube. Sometimes I find interesting articles from blogs, too.

5.) For entertainment, I use plenty of different tools, especially YouTube, blogs, Facebook and Tumblr. I also like browsing through various pictures in Flickr, mainly just for fun.

Effective communication for social media tools has taught me a lot. I've learned to use tools which I didn't even know existed. Hopefully I'm going to keep using these different tools in daily basis in the future aswell.

A peek to my learning diary

During this course I maintained personal learning diary. After virtual meet-ups I summed up my thoughts about the subjects discussed and things learned. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend to the majority of our online sessions. I bet they was the most rewarding and productive part of this course. However, I did the additional tasks and so got familiar with new social media tools and ways to communicate in social media In this post I'm going to sum up my thoughts during the whole course. 

After the first online sessions I felt excited. It was nice to see how many different nationalities and personalities were attending to the course. Creating own personal profile (which I created with the help of smilebox, the tool I had never used or even heard before) was funny. It was nice to see others' creations and get a peek to others' backgrounds and personalities.


Attending to the online sessions wasn't new thing for me as I attended to virtual course earlier last autumn. I liked especially interviewing my friend about her personal use of social media tools. I found mind mapping nice too.


Overall I liked how every task was different and was able to accomplish with several different tools. It made the whole course more interesting.

Taking the whole advantage of social media

 In this brief write up I’m handling how the many advantages of social media communication is taken in my own studies. I’ll be also observing and comparing two different social media tools which I have chosen by myself.


First of all, social media communication is used in my P2P business studies almost daily. Especially we use Optima in daily basis but have also experiences for example GoogleDocs and massidea.org. Sharing your ideas in massidea.org was exciting and I personally find Optima very handy and useful in daily use. As I study business, we do 99% percent of our studies using computers. I think it would be a waste of good opportunity if social media communication wasn’t used.

In our P2P studies sharing your own ideas and work is essential. Using different social media communication tools makes sharing our own thoughts and commenting on others’ ideas easier. Personally I think it’s important to fearlessly try new ways to communicate (also when it comes to studies or professional communication).

There can be found multiple similarities when comparing Facebook and Myspace. Although Myspace’s way of use has changed since it was first built up. In both, Facebook and Myspace, you can create your own profile and communicate with other people. Users can also upload pictures and make the profile match with their own personalities. In Facebook the use is however more private and personal; people log in as their real personas using own names, when in Myspace the majority of users uses nicknames and don’t probably share the same amount of personal information as in Facebook. Because of this, keeping an eye on security and privacy issues in Facebook is more important. Nowadays Myspace is used more as a platform of advertising your own band or art. Many bands and artists share their material in Myspace and they might have gathered huge numbers of visitors on their pages.

Summing up, right now Facebook is used more as a way to share personal information and pictures and keep in touch with friends under users’ own identities. Myspace has renovated their brand and it’s used more by artists and bands publishing their material to larger audiences. However, social media tools are constantly developing and changing, who knows how much, both Facebook and Myspace, will change during the years!