Tag Archives: social network

Social Media Best Practices

Image via Wikipedia Always thank people for links, re-tweets or mentions. You can reply on the site, send a direct message, an e-mail or a phone call to express your appreciation. Look for a chance to reciprocate down the road. Share a great blog post or good mention of them in the media to your [...]

Try Something New

Sometimes you find a brand-new social media platform and there isn’t anybody there yet in your space. Take a good look before you commit resources to this new platform, but if it seems stable and they’ve got an interface and “voice” that appeals to you this may be the opportunity to be the leader in [...]

Rules of Engagement

While it’s important to build a network of social media profiles to grow your visibility, deliver your message broadly and learn from your connections, mega-networks don’t necessarily  pay off  all by themselves. But here is how a large network can really be useful. I have a couple of monster-networker friends on LinkedIn. I’ve tended to [...]

Choosing the Right Venues

So you’ve listened carefully and discovered that the people you want to connect with are mostly on 2-3 different networks and many are on both. Now what do you do? Even if you find these deep conversations on 3, 6 or even 10 different networks, don’t engage on all of them at once. Take your [...]

Maybe You Don’t Need Facebook

While it’s true that Facebook is the largest network of it’s kind in the world and growing at an amazing rate, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s perfect for your business. Not every business needs a Facebook page, but it can be used as one of your tools to grow your visibility, establish your brand and [...]

FriendFeed

FriendFeed was initially a place where you could bring your social network RSS feeds into one place and share your information and your favorite links with your friends and see theirs too. FriendFeed helps you share your stuff, discover the stuff your friends think is cool and discuss how cool it is. Seems simple right?