A few days ago Twitter and LinkedIN announced the implementation of a new feature: shared status updates. It was announced on the LinkedIN Blog and the news was later picked up by e.g. The Guardian.

The new system basically allows you to channel your tweets directly into your LinkedIN status update and vice versa.

On the LinkedIN Blog you can read all about this new feature and how to use it. It includes this short video featuring an interview with Reid Hoffmann, co-founder of LinkedIN and Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter:

I have toyed around with the concept for a few days and I really like this new feature. However, I strongly suggest that you chose the feature only to send tweets with the hashtag #in to your LinkedIN profile – otherwise your contacts on LinkedIN will see all of your Twitter replies and broken bits and pieces of conversations that will probably make very little sense to them.

Welcome to the opening post of AskAboutSocialMedia.com! I hope this site will provide you with interesting new knowledge and ideas about how to use social media.

I want to start out with showing two videos. One is by Dr. Michael Wesch, who teaches digital ethnography at Kansas State University. I have been following his ideas and videos about teaching, learning and other subjects for some time now and he strikes me as truely a unique teacher and thinker.

The other video is by one of my favourite speakers on web 2.0 and social media – the author of “Here Comes Everybody”, Clay Shirky.

Both videos illustrate a point about the interconnected world we live in today and the impact that social media and web 2.0 has on our lives. I hope you enjoy them!