You have selected a Social Networking service, created your profile, selected a photo of yourself and invited your contacts to join your network. Now you have built a network! Congratulations!
The network you have created is an important one. You have invited people to become part of your network community, so what is your plan? How are you going engage with your community?
Being active and engaging in your community is vitally important. The same time you invest in your personal face to face relationships, you will need to invest in growing and enhancing your online relationship.
Twitter is an exceptional tool to [...]
November 6th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Branding, twitter, twitter backgrounds, twitter basics
Posted in Branding, Featured, Networking, Social Media, Tips/Tools, twitter | 18 Comments »
I enjoy the benefits of connecting with colleagues, friends, clients and other people in our industry.
This isn’t random spam, this is spam being created by network connections. How can this be? Interestingly, everyone views spam slightly differently. I have found a few, who view it as the reason they have a network, which I find interesting.
The benefits of LinkedIn are plentiful, however using it as an adverting tool is not one of them.
Obviously, everyone in LinkedIn has a product or service to promote, but I find the direct emails, which are apparently random in nature, as they not directed to [...]
October 10th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Business networking, Linkedin, LinkedIn Group, social network, Social network service, Web 2.0
Posted in Etiquette, Featured, Networking | 6 Comments »
What is LinkedIn’s real purpose? It is a social networking platform for making connections, right? Wrong.
Wrong? I was sure surprised to learn I had been using LinkedIn improperly.
Hmmm, that must be the reason they “blocked” me from contacting people in my groups, without their email address. LinkedIn was nice about it, stating they would remove it, if I basically acknowledged I now understood the concept.
Interesting enough, even if I had watched this video, and completely understood the concept of LinkedIn, I probably would have contacted “group” members. I consider a “group” as a collection of people sharing common interests and [...]
August 20th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Linkedin, Networking
Posted in Linkedin, Networking, Tips/Tools | 3 Comments »
I have found this to be a to be a complement to traditional face-to-face networking.
Businesses are expanding globally and online social networks make it easier to develop business, promote, communicate and share resources around the world. It has helped make it easier for small and medium sized companies to grow their networks and compete in the global market place.
Where to start? That is indeed a great question, one I had in the beginning. I started with one of my favorite internet resources, about.com.
They had several articles to point me in the right direction. The first Online Business Networking Tip: Be [...]
July 16th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Networking, online social networking
Posted in Networking | No Comments »
