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Start with one – Social Networking 101


Listen to the 2 minute audio above. It’s great advice.

Most folks joining Twitter or Facebook today, they’re advised to follow a bunch of folks. Likely these aren’t folks they are not only direct contacts with in the physical world, but not even a friend of a friend.

This sounds like fun until that newbie drowns in the messages, messages with no meaning. Sure, they might make one or two friends out of that mess, but likely they’ll initially just be frustrated.

In the end, the recommendation to follow a bunch of strangers is just bad advice. There’s no relationship building going on. It’s like trying to make instant bake success.

So what works? Organic one relationship at a time growth of contacts. Instead of focusing on stratospheric numbers, focus on one new contact at a time.

How to do this?  Best advice I’ve received is to watch who your friends engage with. Listen in on those conversations. See what those folks who do interact have to say and how they say it.  If you see something you enjoy, friend that person.

New contacts you add, be sure to let them know how you found them. Be sure to mention the shared connection, and considering adding a note about one of the new friends messages. It lets them know you’ve been listening.

In summary, build your network one valued connection at a time. Give them your best. Your network will grow fast enough.

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Stop Spinning and Start Focusing by Keith Burtis


Keith shares his perspective on focus in social networking and media.  Are you just spinning your wheels? Is your company?

Comments and questions about Apple’s new iPad


Robert Sanzalone, @pacificIT, shares his comments, questions, and concerns about the Apple iPad. Robert brings his long IT background to bear, providing an informed opinion.

The audio iPad commentary was recorded at Twad.io.

Robert Sanzalone blogs at http://www.sanzalone.com.

What is twaud.io?
twaud.io lets you share audio with your twitter followers. Think of it as twitpic but for mp3s.
Follow @twaudio to keep updated on new developments.

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Utterli – Blog Traffic Driver


A lot of bloggers out there are looking for more ways to drive traffic. A goodly portion of them are looking into social networking and social media to do that.

Most overlook the obvious though, posting where the audience is. This could mean that you need to bring the topics, writing and etc into the realm your real audience is at. This can also mean going online to where your readers are.

Utterli really allows you to address both of those. Through straight observation of my own stream of posts here, and how the impact they have, I’ve been drawn to that conclusion.

Utterli has turned out to turn up surprisingly well on search traffic. The stats aren’t revealed but based on the pass through on partial posts here to my primary blog, it turns up a fair amount of my blog hits.

Utterli supports multimedia posts. The best part, it’s easy to include. This allows you to share a photograph, video, written word, or audio, or all of the above. This works great for sharing a post that contains a recording which is transcribed in the text portion. Makes it searchable as well.

Utterli has a receptive viewing audience. Again, just my own observation here, but it’s not unusual for a typical post here of mine to get well over 100 hits with some around 800 or more hits.

Utterli has another benefit, you can blog from anywhere. The Utterli mobile page works great for getting a blog post out to your blog, with the added benefit of instant cross posting.

Yes, cross-posting. Utterli was the original post once, post many platform. Before ping.fm and the sort, you could do that here on Utterli. Utterlie integrates with several of the most popular social networking and media services as well as all types of blogging platforms.

I’ve posted posts from my Blackberry already. I’ve posted from here to YouTube, Blogger, Twitter, Wordpress, and more. Added bonus, tags carry through.

So if you want to be able to reach your audience where they are you don’t have to log into all of those services or post to them, you can post here, once.

You can even share posts you’ve placed here later or multiple times to each of the associated platforms. Posts here also have permalinks, and allow discussion.

Before Seesmic was usable in comments, you could leave full multimedia comments here on Utterli. And, bonus!, comments here show up on pushed through posts to the blogs as a comment counter.

So before you go looking to spend lots of time on other platforms trying to post in 20 places, consider using Utterli as a distribution tool. I’ve found it even works great for older content you want to give folks a fresh look at.

Drop by http://utterli.com/ today and give it a try.

Cheers,
Tojosan, @tojosan on Twitter
The Broad Brush – http://toddrjordan.com/…broadbrush

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Social Media Club Louisville A Success


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Social Media Overload?


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