My cousin Jesse told me this summer that I need to listen more, hear what people are saying and avoid being condescending. Somewhere along the line I lost some of my sensitivity, my filter, that keeps me from acting like a know it all. This was hard to hear, because it was personal and honest. [...]
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Go Local – Each One Teach One – We Are The World
Continuing a theme started a few weeks ago at the local Cleveland Social Media Club, I’d like to share what I see coming in social media and the world of social and professional networking in 2010. I start from the idea that there has been a settling in the market with some very clear winners [...]
Make New Friends but Keep the Old
One is Silver and the Other is Gold… After advising you to get rid of some friends, I want to make sure you make some new friends. Susie is a 2009 friend who randomly entered my world of FaceBook. For the first month I debated hiding her as she posts a lot of links. Each [...]
Thanksgiving – The best time to lose some “friends”
This is a post that hurts me write, but I have been thinking about it for awhile. Once a year you need to parse thru your friends and connections on your various networks and cut some fat. Delete or remove some of the random people you have connected to that have not enhanced your online [...]
FaceBook Fan Pages and your Lists get a Steroid Injection
So…you thought it was annoying when I said you should take the time to add some Lists on FaceBook, organize your friends so you can easily see updates from groups of people. FaceBook realized you needed more of an incentive, now you can click on one of your lists and update your status to that [...]
Twitter in Real Time and Beta launch of ReTweet
Here comes the ReTweet features of Twitter! This should be an exciting feature to unfold. Itis nice to see Twitter evolving their product. This is just the start of a potentially powerful feature. While power users have been ReTweeting for a “long time” (fine not more than 3 years), software developers and users have really [...]
Meeting People is Easy – Getting to know them takes work
As I wind up my second night in a row of getting out to events and engaging with people, I am reminded that meeting people is easy, getting to know them takes work. The reason I am so passionate about networks like LinkedIn, FaceBook and to a lesser extent Twitter is that it makes it [...]
LinkedIn to Twitter – Not Exciting Yet
Today was a big day for me on LinkedIn. First, I noticed I have 500 connections, some sort of strange marker that I have now reset – next stop 1,000. Second, I noticed under Edit Profile, the first integration of Twitter, widely reported with scant details. Upon adding my Twitter account there was a quick [...]
How Twitter Lists can help you get your first 2,000 followers
Twitter lists are a very very very valuable tool. Click around and check a few out. What you will see is people are organizing and categorizing their Twitter friends. Are you looking for more followers in your local area? Find Twitter lists of people who have broken out your regional Twitter connects. Maybe you want [...]
Pictures, FaceBookand your Fan Page – the Missing Tag
You can’t get enough pictures on FaceBook, especially if you have a Fan Page. With 16 Billion plus photos on FaceBook, this is an area you do not want to miss. It is a great way to promote your business and your Fans! Photos hit your Fans news feed, just like a post does. Add [...]
- Social and professional networking and the Generation Gap
- Filling in Your Profile
- High Percentage Shots – Another Cavs Playoff Post
- Fun with Images
- Linking your FaceBook Fan Page to Twitter
- FaceBook Tagging – Should you adjust your notifications
- FaceBook Places – What does it mean to you as a Business Owner?
- FaceBook Places – 3 ways this will socialize your business
- Geolocation comes to FaceBook
- The Top 7 Do’s of using Social Media in Your Job Search
- The Top 7 Dont’s of using Social Media in Your Job Search
- FaceBook Updates Pages – What should you do?
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jginsberg: Noam - I agree with you. It is critical to use the...
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Noam Schafer: I enjoyed your thoughts. This past weekend at my ...
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Robert Lakin: Simple but extremely helpful. The List idea was co...
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Heidi Cool: I couldn't agree more. I'm working with a firm now...
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