Best... Social Media Tips

The number of ways you can use Social Networks seems boundless: connecting to former colleagues and old friends, sharing up-to-the-minute news, creating a community of common interest, marketing, sales, recruiting, investor relations, and so on. At the same time, there is the downside: endless time wasted, brand risk, and identity theft. With so much emphasis - from just about everywhere - on Social Media, it seems apropos to list some of the more effective tips and perspectives:

• The Centre of Gravity: The most important way to keep your Social Media relevant.
• Twitter Strategy: Eight strategies to use Twitter.
• Too Many Friends?: When (and why) to "defriend" from others.
• Social Notworking: Avoid embarassment by following some simple dos and don'ts
• 25 Hours of Status Updates: A strategy for becoming more efficient/effective.
• Out without the Shout: Changing your communication style from broadcasting to engagement.
• Anti-Social Networking: This headline says it all: when Social Networking is anti-social.
• Social Media Sinkholes: How much time is too much time to spend?
• Social Media Manners Matter: What NOT to do in Social Networking.
• Follower, Friend, or Family?: Explores the hierarchy of relationships: it's not all black or white.

This week's action plan: The very nature of Social Media is to share ideas, links to resources, then use these as a basis for discussion. This week, send a link to your favorite tip from this list to your colleagues and friends: it will improve their experience, and because the web is social, it will also improve yours.

Special request: Do you have any special Social Media tips? Send them in, and I will compile for a future Make It Happen post.

Randall Craig is an expert on Social Media Strategy and Social Media Policy; to find out how his workshops, webinars, and keynotes can help your team or add to your event, contact him through www.PersonalBalanceSheet.com, or by email at editor@ptadvisors.com.

Make It Happen Tipsheet
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Publication Date: Aug 3, 2010