As we wind down 2009, I look back at some of the amazing things that have happened in social media through the year.  Explosive growth (50 million LinkedIn users), new revenue generation (Dell’s Twitter account sells hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computers through deal and coupon announcements), completely new business models (Zynga games […]

There is often confusion around how to give/receive recommendations on LinkedIn.  Let me start off by saying that recommendations are an important part of your LinkedIn profile.  They establish trust and respect among peers when done properly.  Bottom line is that if I know 4 or 5 of the people that have recommended you, and […]

I am always looking for new and relevant social media related tools. Jigsaw is one that you should know about.  Jigsaw is a service that can provide you with up to date contact information for people and where they work.  This information can be incredibly valuable for sales and marketing efforts. 

People are still trying to figure out the best way to leverage Twitter.  It is a good idea to just get started and connecting to people.  As I grow my Twitter network, I have found that it is tedious to log in to Twitter each time someone “follows” me on Twitter.  I want to make […]

One of the questions that I get asked often is how to invite clients and prospects to an event.  Most people are familiar with evite.com.  Evite.com is more of a personal invitation system for things like parties, showers, etc.  I point people to EventBrite.com for handling the invitation and guest list functions for a business […]

Should you Link In or Friend Up with your employees? I think that it is fine to Link In with employees, but think twice about Facebook or MySpace.  You may learn something about your employee that you really didn’t want to know or shouldn’t know.  Also, social media is an ever growing archive of thoughts and […]

Daily activity (total of 10-30 minutes per week)  –       CONNECT : Create a weekly recurring 15 minute block on your calendar that you can commit to for LinkedIn activities.  No excuses.  In that 15 minutes, do the following: Pay attention to “People you may know” in the upper right hand corner of your LinkedIn Home […]

Here are 10 top tips for this week: 1 ) Check out Shawn’s post about Wordles.  Interesting! 2 ) Be sure to claim your profile on Google. You will need a Gmail account. 3 ) Be sure to back up your RoboForm2Go files on your U3 USB Key with their free online sync service, RoboForm […]

I have been hearing about how great a blogging tool WordPress is. For some reason, it took me a while to see what all the hype is about. I am going to chalk it up to the fact that I already had a gmail account, and blogger was a free service with that account. So […]