Follow Friday Special Post October 23 2009

by Allan on October 23, 2009

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Twitter IconDid I say no more Follow Friday posts?

Well, maybe one more! I was driving home from Sydney today and thought about which one Twitter application could help people to enrich their experience and came up with Mr Tweet!

Mr TweetMr Tweet provides an easy way to check out people who you may be considering following on Twitter.

When you check out a users profile while logged into Mr Tweet, you see the number of posts that they make each day, the percentage of links that they post, and their level of engagement (conversation).

Follow Mr Tweet on Twitter (after signing up) here!

You can also recommend people for your friends to follow by using the Mr Tweet service!

ShandelB provides great writing tips on her website.

Shandel is a proofreader, and if you’re concerned how your grammar and spelling looks to visitors, (and you should be), her site is well worth a visit.

In one of our recent ‘Chats Across The Pond’, Tege and I had a great laugh comparing pronunciation and spelling differences.

Shandel covers this issue on her website, and provides some great tips.

Shai Coggins describes herself as a “Creative Geek Living at Its Finest”.

A professional blogger, and great networker, I now Shai from a couple of different networking platforms, and can highly recommend her.

LibertyGrrrl is a professional networker both on line, and in her local business community.

She’s the guest speaker at a networking event that I am hosting in Camperdown on Tuesday, October 27.

She’s the real deal, and highly recommended!

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Is Your Social Media Strategy Hurting Your Brand

by Allan on October 22, 2009

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Now that everyone in the world seems to have discovered discovered the value of using social media for business, I wonder if anyone has realized that they could be doing more harm than good for their image (brand)?

Armed with the good news that social media is where the next marketing frontier is located, many businesses are diving in boots and all, not knowing that there are snags there that could affect their business.

Many don’t bother to check the Terms of Service of different sites, assuming that Facebook and say, Twitter must be the same, right?

As I’ve said before, the key word in social networking is social!

That means that the majority of people are there to hang out with friends!

While it may be pretty cool (for some) to follow high profile folks like Britney Spears or Ellen DeGeneres, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they want to get sales messages all day from businesses.

Your offer may or may not be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if you turn your followers away with to many updates and links, you’re only hurting your self!

Tege and I are putting together a social media course to show small business how to use these sites effectively, without harming their image.

Like to know more? Contact us here!

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