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Category Archives: Social media
Losing touch with reality in social media
I have been away for a while taking a holiday, or if you prefer, a vacation. I really needed to step back and it was great to do so. Due to my actually having a rest from normal in-front-of-computer activities … Continue reading
Did you miss the boat?
Don’t rue your luck Recently I have witnessed people publicly regretting that they did not manage to create a worldwide on-line network before Facebook appeared. Why didn’t their big idea grow the way Facebook did? The fact is that hard … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Social media
Tagged business plan, Facebook, luck, Mark Zuckerberg, planning, regret, Social network, Venture capital
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Fifteen ways to get unfollowed and disconnected from my network
Or just not followed in the first place Tweet advertising the whole time Tweet other peoples quotations Tweet religious tracts Tweet political comments and unkind comments about politicians. Tweet every meal you have (occasional food comments or pictures of dishes … Continue reading
Posted in Social, Social media
Tagged Google, Klout, LinkedIn, RSS feeds, Twitter, unfollow
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The Daily Culture Shock
If we use social media in our marketing, we can easily get distracted by the latest fashion or the latest scare story. It can all get very confusing. You know what I think of Klout and its ilk. I think … Continue reading
Posted in marketing, Social media
Tagged Facebook, fashion, marketing, network, networking, Social media, trend
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Living our lives in public
I guess all of us who use social media tools and web applications are to a degree living a public life. After all, that is the purpose, isn’t it – to raise our profiles for marketing purposes? Continue reading
Posted in networking, Social, Social media
Tagged network, networking, reputation, Social media
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Rabbit, rabbit!
Image via Wikipedia I hadn’t intended to return to the subject of web influence but elsewhere on “the internet” there are people including quite well-known pundits telling us that we should be working on our Klout and PeerIndex ratings because … Continue reading
Posted in marketing, Sales, Social media
Tagged influence, Klout, noise, Social media
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Measuring web influence?
Image via Wikipedia When some people talk about their personal relationships, we want to cry out “Too much information” but when on-line that’s what we get. It is so difficult to filter out the noise. We are constantly being urged … Continue reading
Posted in marketing, Sales, Social, Social media
Tagged BranchOut, Facebook, influence, Klout, marketing, Quora, sales, Social media, Twitter
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Guarding our precious reputations
When we speak in a public arena we must guard our words carefully. We must be careful what we say to our fellow networkers. We must be careful what we say to our colleagues. We must be careful what we say on-line. Continue reading
Posted in Customer relations, marketing, networking, Social media
Tagged integrity, on-line, reputation, Social Networking, trust, Vince Cable
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Thank you for the music!
I have had a very enjoyable year writing this blog and my other ones. If the truth be known, I mainly write these days because I enjoy it and because I hope the odd nugget might be useful. I suppose … Continue reading
Posted in marketing, networking, Social, Social media
Tagged Andrew Lock, Blog, blogging, Chris Brogan, help, Jim Connolly, marketing, networking, Sarah Arrow, Seth Godin
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Desperate networking
I wonder whether some of them are driven by desperation that their networking has never worked even when they started and took it more slowly.
We know that if our marketing isn’t working we have to change it. Networking is a sort of marketing in which we give without expectation of getting business from anyone in particular but in the knowledge that those we know may think of us when it counts and they think they know someone who needs us. Continue reading
Posted in marketing, networking, Sales, Social media
Tagged Hunting, marketing, network, networking, networking butterflies, small business
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