Twitter, one of fastest growing social media tools in 2009. One of the popular uses is promoting content through Twitter. In this post I’ll explore the possibilities of using Twitter with automatic and manual tools.
The first and not recommended option for Twitter users when promoting content is manually tweeting every time you post a blogpost, video, podcast. This is not recommended, especialy when most bloggers post more than once a week at their blog, FaceBook, LinkedIn,etc. and upload a video to YouTube every now and then. You would usually like to tweet on most of that. Luckly, today you can add your Twitter account to most of the existing platforms.
The subject says it all: we are active on more than one social platform. It can be difficult to manage all at the same time and connect them with your blog or website. Wibiya is a new and cool tool that does it in a very elegant way.
Operating and managing your blog’s social media activity can be a lot of work, and it might not be so effective if not done right. Many tools offer badges, widgets and toolbars for blogs and websites, I found the Wibiya toolbar very effective and well designed. We implemented it both on this blog and on Sortfix’s blog.
First of all the Wibiya toolbar has a simple step-by-step plugin installation wizard-
Well, the first place to look for money is your bank account. If there isn’t much there, and you have a great idea, you’ll have to search for funding and investors. In this post we will try looking at the subject with a different perspective.
Part of my work with start-up companies includes finding investors and funds. With time you find that somethings works for you better than others. Of course, these are just my impressions. Hope you’ll find them useful:
As said here before, networking happens everywhere. As a proud owner of a new dog, I found a community I wasn’t aware of at all. Except for the fun of having a dog, and especially a young and energetic one, in the past few weeks I met a lot of people with dogs, and some great connections.
There is always an exception, dogs who prefer different things to do with their leisure time-
About a week ago I met and old colleague for a beer after work. While having our beer, I heard someone ordering a beer in Spanish two seats away from us on the bar. Being curious about the spanish, I introduced myself, and so did my colleague. The person we met turned out to be ‘Gale Talk‘, A Madrid based techno artist, who came to town for a concert. We had a fun talk about music and a few more rounds of beer.
Gale Talk
From here on, networking went on using MySpace, where you can find information and more importantly a few tracks. So I could listen to his music, which I really liked. Hope you will enjoy it too. I couldn’t make it to the concert, hope to see it next time in town.
Do you have any friends working in sales? Is any of your friends a blogger? Count the amount of people you know who work with anything to do with technology. If you answered ‘YES’ to these questions or most of them, potentially you have a successful new company in your hands. More on connecting your connections in this post.
In this blog we dealt with how to built your network, and how to make it grow. Assuming you already have a network of considerable size, it’s time to make it work for you, and for your connections. A non-active network, won’t bring any value to your business. Connection won’t last – the next time you’ll need someone from your network you will have to start rebuilding your relationship from scratch.
LinkedIn is a career focused network. I have been an active user for the last few years, and giving it more attention since I have become self-employed. In this post I’ll review some of LinkedIn’s advantages that have been effective for me.
After mapping the first places to start your network, we can be creative on the next places to look at. The idea is that networking should be part of your day and spotting opportunities everywhere. If all this doesn’t make sense to you, that’s OK. In this post I’ll try to demonstrate from my personal experience and the people around me, which are naturally part of my network, how to establish first connections outside your family and friends.
The first thing to remember and to understand is you must be active and consistent about your growing network. This means that connections in most cases won’t built up by themselves. Let’s review the possibilities:
How active are you physically? Do you work out? jog? swim or cycle? If not, you should, and for more than the one reason. Put a side the obvious health advantages of being fit and the pleasure of it, taking part of any sport is a great way of getting to know people. In other words – establishing connections.
Everyone has a network. Not everybody knows it, and not everyone knows how to use it. In this post I’ll try to show how to map your current network as a first step to expansion in the future.
I believe that the base of every network, online or not, is the people around you. It doesn’t matter (and this is important) if your network is for business or any other purposes. You should always start with the people who know you and are in most cases fond of you.
Family – a lot of people have a hard time regarding to their family as part of their network, which is understandable due to the fact that most people are used to get a hot meal from their moms and not talk business. The funny thing is that in many cases family members can be strategic connections in your network. The advantages of family members are of a wide range. In some cases it could be your parents that naturally have years of experience in their field of work, or a sibling, an uncle or aunt. The family has two great advantages, they are very approachable when in need, and usually one can find a wide variety of professions in the family.
Of course there are families who network only in the family…
