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Why a Google Profile is essential
What do you link to on your Twitter or email signature? Do you link to your blog or your Linkedin profile? Or what about your work website or perhaps even your Facebook? I used to link to my blog on … Continue reading
Five more online skills you must master BEFORE you start a blog
Earlier this week, I launched the first of my two part campaign to encourage people to master five online skills before they start a blog. I promised five more online skills. So here they are. Once again, I make suggestions for … Continue reading
Posted in Advertisements, Communities, Links, RSS feeds, Search
Tagged blogging, Blogs, LinkedIn, Online Communities, Online research, Online skills, Research
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Guest post: eight tips to convert a social media relationship into a telephone conversation
My second guest post is by Endaf Kerfoot, leader of LinkedIn’s Future of Social Media group (disclosure: and a colleague). Endaf is sales manager of an exhibition called Internet World and also contributes to the Internet World blog. He has expanded his … Continue reading
What to do when your social media is frustrating you
We’ve all done it. We’ve been so frustrated by the lack of traditional response to our social media activity, we’ve gone back to our old ways. We’ve written what we thought was the best-blog-post-ever and then no one read it. … Continue reading
Posted in Links, Social media
Tagged Blogs, Communities, Online Communities, Social media, social media marketing, Twitter
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What is a Tweetup and what does one feel like?
OK, first up. A Tweetup is a meeting between people with the who, where and when arranged on Twitter. Sounds simple. But a key ingredient, to differentiate it from a mere meeting, is that the people concerned should only be … Continue reading
Posted in Links, New Media, Social media
Tagged Ben LaMothe, George Hopkin, Online Communities, Tweetup
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Guest post: top ten tips on how to manage a Linkedin group
Guest post by Julius Solaris, a community manager and social media expert. Julius blogs at Event Manager Blog and manages the Linkedin Event Planning and Management group, which boasts more than 5300 event professionals from around the world. I have always been impressed by … Continue reading
Posted in Communities, Guest post, Links
Tagged Event Planning and Management Group, Julius Solaris, LinkedIn, Ning, Xing
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Five reasons to be interested in Facebook once more
It comes in waves. One day I am obsessed with Twitter. Another day it is back to FriendFeed. But, at the moment, it’s Facebook. I’ll try and tell you why. Only a few months ago, I was asking on this blog … Continue reading
Posted in Links, Social media, Twitter
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, Social media, Social network, Twitter
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Three approaches to social networks and how to get them started
If you are looking at how to “garden”, that is foster, your online communities, you are probably also wondering how exactly to achieve it. I’ve come up with three different approaches that I call “Keep It In The Family”, “The Great Escape” and “The … Continue reading
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A list of counterintuitive behaviour that will improve your use of the web
Traditional media people – journalists, marketers, editors – are just like other professionals. They do the same things in print and via emails year after year because of intuition. Success came about by hoarding the content broadcasting to the users expecting a response … Continue reading →