Comments on: Starter Kit: Social Media and Social Networking Best Practices for Business

By: Christian Bernard

Christian Bernard — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:40:18 +0000

Hi Dawn,

Thank you for your post. Very useful start-up tips.

A nice complement would be an explanation of the technologies used for sharing a particular post (like your “Sharing is good”) and for users to track web site or blog content updates like RSS feeds.

We setup an online community of sales & marketing professionals which is growing nicely. It now accounts for almost 4,000 members. It is hosted on LinkedIn (look for SalesLab) with a companion blog on TypePad (http://www.saleslabcommunity.typepad.com/).

We’re now planning for a significant boost which will include the setting of an independent IT platform and the delivery of many more services to the community.

Kind regards, Christian

By: Mike Sullivan

Mike Sullivan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:23:08 +0000

Nice… this helps confirm what I’m already doing. There are only a few things more annoying to me than when someone in my industry comes to my site and makes a no value add comment. Just a “hi, nice site” kind of comment (I expect that from some industries, but not mine).

I always write them back and thank them, but ask them to write more. They never do, unfortunately. Usually, I find them later having made similar comments on about 50 other sites, but no more than just that one comment. No participation, no interaction.

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:35:30 +0000

Love this..reposting it to http://www.inSocialMedia.com now.

By: Lynn (www.mamasays.us)

Lynn (www.mamasays.us) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:50:22 +0000

Thank you for the primer. Very useful. Plan to work through it my business partner.
Best,
Lynn
Mama Says, LLC

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:19:55 +0000

Jeremiah,

Thanks! As you know companies seem to struggle with the personal side of social media & online communities. Getting the software installed is the easy part; using it effectively to engage with people can be much more difficult.

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:09:09 +0000

really excellent primer.

By: Priya Ramachandran

Priya Ramachandran — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:22:04 +0000

Nice article. I am currently into understanding how these social networking and social media really helps a business? Blogging and podcasts i understand and find it quite interesting. Atleast you can write/talk about your industry.

However I am stll unclear on why would a company use a social networing site like Facebook to talk about it? A company looking more for local or national clients might not find this kinda social networking sites of any use. Am I missing something here? How is the social networking sites actually helping any business?

I have a personal blog of mine(http://composedvolcano.blogspot.com/). I have yet to start a company blog. Also we dont have any presence on sites like facebook etc.

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:38:29 +0000

I never liked Facebook. I had an account for about three months before deleting it. I’ve used Plaxo, LinkedIN and Biznik to varying degrees and have found linkedin to work the best. The downside–or upside– of linkedin is that it is not geographically located. I’ve had individuals contact me and ask me questions from around the world but not much luck connecting with people locally besides those that I already know.

Something that I’ve found interesting are niche sites that graft some social networking features onto it. PreCYdent is a free legal research site that has profiles built into it. I can see niche sites having more staying power than universal sites and thus having more value to service providers in those markets.

I’d be very interested on how you work through your slides. I hope to start placing podcasts and videos on the small business sites that I run. I hope to find to coherently edit the talks into smaller, more digestable amounts. Although I find podcasts very interesting, anything over 10 minutes and I’ll start working on something else while playing it in the background.