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I don’t know if I’m right in thinking that my email inbox is peppered frequently with messages about the relative popularity of various social networking platforms, but it does seem that way. And my impression is that, apart from the acknowledged leading duo of Facebook and Twitter, the buzz seems to be usually about one…
As LinkedIn continues to grow – 259 million+ users, with two new members every second – I’m finding that more and more people are actively interested in learning about how to make the best use of this, the leading social networking platform for professionals worldwide. Which is why I am announcing this week the next…
I was interviewed recently by Chris Muccio, author of Amazon best selling 42 Rules for 24 Hour Success on LinkedIn. Chris was working on the second edition of that book and wanted to learn about the 30 Day Linking Blitz project. This morning, Chris sent me a link to the video below, which I think…
Business Value of Social Media for B2B In discussing social media with business-to-business (B2B) companies, I find one of the key challenges in developing the conversation is that a lot of the reference points – what people have absorbed about or experienced of social media – is in the business-to-consumer (B2C) space. For example,…
Having committed to give a presentation on social media next month for our local IT Forum Gold Coast, I offered as the topic “Social Media: Getting Strategic for Business Building”. Now that I see the event “up in lights” so to speak, on the Meetup site, I’m wondering how to structure my presentation. It’s not…
I was feeling some self-imposed pressure recently because I knew I should be doing more with my LinkedIn presence and engagement – at which I’m supposed to be a bit of an expert – but it seemed other things kept getting in the way. “Aha!” sez I to myself “What if I committed to a…