LinkedIn Answers: Get feedback from your network
Ask and you shall receive. I posted this question to my LinkedIn connections: Are you looking for quantity or quality in your LinkedIn and Facebook connections? I’ve been reading a lot about why we should limit our connections online in order to actually build relationships. What’s the point of having a billion contacts online if they [...]
July 6, 2009
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Tags: LinkedIn, polling, social marketing, social networking · Posted in: internet, marketing, social networking
Are we there yet?
Summer always brings back fond memories of childhood summer vacations. Mom, Dad, and the three kids would pile into the loaded car, hit the road, and drive. And drive. And drive. It wasn’t until years later that I realized the purpose of a road trip was to actually periodically get out of the car and [...]
June 15, 2009
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Tags: blogging, Facebook, social networking, twitter · Posted in: blogging, social networking
Social networking: everything old is new again
I was talking to a collegue today about a class we’re teaching on how to do social networking. In the course of the conversation it occured to me that the supposedly “radical” ideas behind promoting your business by participating on sites like Facebook aren’t all that new or radical. Here’s the basic tenets of social [...]
February 26, 2009
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Tags: Facebook, kindergarten report card, social networking · Posted in: social networking
What’s the buzz on Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking sites that allows you to answer that important question: What are you doing right now? You have 140 characters to answer. Sounds a bit silly? Well, yes and no. For those of us who scramble to find time to write at all, the idea of promoting 140 characters at a [...]
December 23, 2008
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Tags: online promotion, social networking, twitter · Posted in: Uncategorized, internet, marketing
