Social media is a new way to communicate and share information amongst friends, family, and colleagues online, as well as meeting people with similar interests. Social media sites are being used regularly by millions of people worldwide.
You can now find Blaenau Gwent CBC on the following sites:
- Flickr
- YouTube
- Delicious
Facebook is a social networking website that allows users to join networks organised by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.
Blaenau Gwent CBC on Facebook - Join to read newsfeeds, RSVP on local events, browse photos and watch video.
Flickr is a powerful social networking site that uses photos to link people together.
Blaenau Gwent CBC on Flickr - Browse Blaenau Gwent's photostream and add your favourite photos of Blaenau Gwent to our Visit Blaenau Gwent group.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. People access Twitter updates either through the Twitter website or a wide variety of programs created specifically to view tweets.
Blaenau Gwent on Twitter - Latest news, jobs and events from Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council.
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, share and comment on video clips.
Blaenau Gwent CBC on YouTube - A wide range of video clips from Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council.
Delicious is a free social bookmarking service that enables people to find, organise and share their favourite internet links. We use delicious to provide a quick, easy way to find out information about our website. When you go to our delicious account page you will see a list of popular pages within the Blaenau Gwent CBC website. Why? Because we want to make it easier for you to find specific content in the BGCBC website.
Blaenau Gwent CBC on delicious - A range of links from the BGCBC website and other useful bookmarks
Find out more
Watch a video about this, Social Networking in Plain English.
