XeeSM, which is so new it is not even in public beta yet, is a tool for managing social relationships. By providing a simple web address (URL) XeeSM gives you a way to provide one link from which people can instantly check out your various online presences, from your website to your LinkedIn, Twitter and…
According to a new survey on business applications of social media, blogging is not old news, but actually looks set for a bright future. Although it suits some commentators to proclaim the demise of blogging, Josh Gordon in his report The Coming Change in Social Media Business Applications, says that blogging is shaping up, along…
If you are using blogging as part of your business, you will be as interested in knowing how to measure the success or otherwise of your blogging as you will of, say, your paid advertisements or other marketing activities. The question is, how? There is no shortage of tools and services to measure such things…
The third in this series of LinkedIn Tips is to Give Useful Recommendations. The Recommendations feature is one of the distinctive elements of LinkedIn, whereby members can provide comments on one another’s capabilities, experience of working together and so on. It is a free-form system with just one field where your “recommender” can write a…
Yesterday I led a session at the Social Media Telesummit, on the topic: Why Building Traffic Isn’t Enough: How to Become an A List Blogger in Your Niche I focused on how blogging can be and is used for business, rather than blogging as a business. This is how I described the session in the…
I’m excited about the Social Media Telesummit launched yesterday, partly because I’m one of the presenters but more importantly because I believe that this is a very timely event for many people. It’s timely especially for people who are looking at the effects of the global economic crisis and wondering what they can do that’s…