On September 5th, I wrote about Nutshell Mail which aggregates everything social into an email. Today I want to briefly tell you about Social Mention which does a similar thing, but goes further to help you understand your reach and the sentiment that you evoke among your social graph. I’ve included a screen shot of…
On Friday, November 5th, the National Association of REALTORS® will kick off it’s annual love fest. This year it is in New Orleans. Billed as NARdiGras 2010, the event will feature 4 days of speeches, lectures, classes and exhibits all designed to educate REALTORS®, fete REALTORS® and separate REALTORS® from their money in the Exhibit…
Where did my day go? I just sat down to check my email and now it’s dinner time. Along the way I stopped into Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and before I knew it the day was gone. Sound familiar? For many of us the allure of social networking is the ease by which we can…
Unless you have managed to avoid turning on your computer, television and radio for the past several years, you already know that social networking is probably the biggest thing to hit the web since AOL popularized the online experience in 1996. Some of the most talked about social sites are Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. …
A few weeks ago I gave you a seven day plan for using social networking. In Day Seven of the plan, I talked about a tool that I use (NutshellMail) to help me stay on top of all the activity in my social networks. When I add my Facebook friends, my Facebook business page fans,…
Web 2.0 sites and social media are already here (and have been for some time). Experts predict that this trend will only grow. That means if you don’t start using social media now – today – you’ll be left behind. Here then are 10 tips for using social media to drive traffic to your sites……
Let’s pretend that you have never heard of social networking until just now. And from what you have heard, you are excited because you have learned that you can use it to stay in touch with past clients, meet new prospects and also use it to nurture those new relationships until they are ready to…
I sure hope that you’ll say yes, because the problem that this tip will solve is starting to look like an epidemic. Facebook is built on connecting with people and becoming their “friend”. Once you are friends with someone you can start to share your life stream with them and they can share theirs with…
I have to confess. I have a secret weapon that allows me to stay on top of my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn networks. If you’ve got more than a few friends on these networks, keeping up with everyone’s activities can be pretty time consuming, but keep up you must. Otherwise, what is the point of…
So, I was asked the following question on Facebook the other day “Jerry, do you think I should be friending more people say friends of friends even though I don’t know them?” At first glance that seems like a simple enough question to answer, but as I thought about what I should say to him…
