Posts Tagged "Facebook"

What is Threadsy?

Posted by Erin Blaskie on Apr 28, 2010 in Social Media, Twitter, Videos, Web & Technology | 1 comment

Want a better Twitter, Facebook and e-mail integration tool? Want to kick Tweetdeck to the curb? Enter Threadsy. Erin Blaskie reviews this tool and explains why she uses it in this video review.

Facebook is Holding My Friends Hostage

Posted by Erin Blaskie on Dec 16, 2009 in Facebook, Social Media | 8 comments

I have 5,000 friends on my Facebook profile.  Facebook has a limit on your personal profile of 5,000.  I reached that limit before Facebook introduced “Fan Pages”.  Now, I have a Fan Page setup as well that I would love to replace my profile.  Why?  Well, you aren’t limited on your Fan Page as to how many fans you can have.

Since my profile is what most people find in search, people keep adding me there.  I can’t add anyone else because my profile is full.  So, I have 2,188 people in wait (as of the date of this blog post).  So, I add these people as those from my current list of 5,000 drop off.  We’re talking about adding one person every three days or so.

Here’s the killer part of this…  I could message these people and say, “Hey! I see you want to connect with me… why don’t you connect up on my fan page?” however Facebook sends me a warning after about the fifth sent message to these individuals.  They also warn that they can close your account down for sending out too many messages.

So… what do I do?

These 2,188 people obviously want to connect with me except I can’t connect back with them.  If I try to communicate with them, I run the risk of Facebook shutting my account down (oh, if they shut your account down and you haven’t appointed a second person on your fan page as administrator, kiss that page goodbye… by the way).

Facebook, why are you holding my people hostage like this?  Has anyone out there found a solution to this?

What I wish Facebook would have done was just convert profiles into fan pages in terms of how they behave.  It would have been very easy to lift the cap on the number of friends, like fan pages, and just let people connect with however many people they want.  Look at Twitter, for example, where some people have hundreds of thousands and even millions of followers.

Or, maybe Facebook could allow us to hide certain profiles in search.  Maybe you can do this already (I haven’t spent too much time looking at the new privacy settings yet) but I think an easy way to say, “Don’t show my profile but rather just my fan page” would be great.

So, anyone out there have any advice on this subject?

Crowdsourcing an Answer: Social Media Transition Tool

Posted by Erin Blaskie on Nov 17, 2009 in blog, Business Tips, Resources, Social Media | 14 comments

Last week (or was it the week before…) I spoke at The Ottawa Network’s (TON) special event on the subject of “Becoming Known by Using Social Media & Blogs”.  Afterward, I had a lot of great questions come in from people who had attended my talk.  There was one in particular that I wanted to post publicly to get YOUR feedback, support, guidance and advice on as I couldn’t answer it.

The question is in two parts.  The first one is good – I answered it but it’s the second I need your help with.   Thanks in advance!

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An e-mail from Tim Warland:

Thank you for the insight into “today’s generation” at TON last night. I didn’t get a chance to speak with you but have a couple questions:

1. What is the Google tool you discussed to “stalk” yourself?

   (Erin’s Answer:  The Google tool that I use to stalk myself (haha) is Google Alerts.  You can set them up and have them send you a daily e-mail of the mentions of your name, a keyword, your company name, etc.  Best part is that it is free!)

2. I think there is a hole in the social media space. Do you know which tool can patch it?

   Two popular social media tools are facebook and linked-in. Although I don’t facebook, it is a place to inform family and casual friends about my life (not specifically my work life). LinkedIn is for my professional network. As a rule, I only connect to people I know well enough to introduce them to other people in my network. That leaves a hole for about 400 people I know. Folks like the person I shared a plane ride to Boston, people from whom I collected a business card at a tradeshow. Maintaining some form of informal connection is important. What tool manages these casual relationships?

   I’d like to nurture these people who, for the most part, haven’t connected to social media. My objective is to create a monthly newsletter that I can email to different tribes (if the term is correct). The 6-paragraph version of the newsletter would be for family and close friends (the facebook crowd). A three paragraph version would be for professional colleagues (the linkedIn crowd). A single paragraph version would go to the hundreds of casual connections.

   The email would direct people to view my blog (which would look like the 6-paragraph newsletter) and suggest they follow me on twitter, or whatever. The idea would be to encourage them to make a connection back to me.

   What tool is available to fill this space as we transition the older crowd (my tribe) to the new media? Any ideas?

   (Erin’s Answer:  I don’t really know… I use Twitter but I don’t know that it’s a great transitional tool.  Let’s put this to the crowd!)

Thank you in advance!  Leave a comment if you can help answer #2.

Stats: How Much Money are Facebook and MySpace Making?

Posted by Erin Blaskie on Jul 9, 2009 in Social Media | 0 comments

via mashable.com

Interesting stats about a few of our favorite social networking sites.

Posted via web from Erin’s posterous

iPhone Business Apps

Posted by Erin Blaskie on May 28, 2009 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I LOVE my iPhone and if you know me, you know that I talk about it often. Here’s a little video I did about the iPhone apps that I use on my iPhone.

What iPhone apps do you use?

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