Social-Media Best Practices: 12 Tips for Making the Best of Any Social Site, Part 1

[Editor's note: This part 1 of a two-part series on social-media best practices. Check back next week for part 2.]

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? Twitter has more than 16 million users, and 42.3 percent of the entire American population uses Facebook. YouTube is the second most used search engine in the world. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your followers use at least one social network, right?