August 2009

Are you using Social Media to listen?

I received an email today from one of the many lists I’m subscribed to and it read, I am a good listener.  Contrary to what you might expect from a “speaker” or “trainer”, I actually prefer to sit back and just listen most of the time.  Today I’m going to share with you some of [...]

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Friends vs Audience Do you know the difference?

Last week I spoke about how I was rebuilding my social networks.  I announced a plan to get more from my social networks and an interesting conversation was started on Facebook. In a nutshell I decided to post notes on Facebook about how people are using their social networks and tagging some of my “friends” [...]

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Do you need to rebuild your social networks?

In last weeks post, “Do you really have friends?” I started analyzing how people are building their social networks.  After writing that post I’ve been evaluating my  social networks and I’ve found that I need new friends.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like my existing “friends” are bad, it’s just that they haven’t done [...]

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Do you really have Friends?

How many friends do you have on twitter? How many friends do you have on facebook? Are you sure?  Do you REALLY have friends, or are they just another number? Do you really think that any human can maintain the number of friends they list in all their social profiles? I’m not sure when social [...]

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