Podcast: Giving Yourself Away Online (Ep. 4)
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Episode 4: Giving Yourself Away to Your Online Communities
I received a question on my Formspring.me account which asked, “You spend a lot of your time helping people, responding to questions, making recommendations and providing really useful tips… to strangers and you do it with such passion. How fulfilling is it personally and for business?”
This is such a great question because a lot of times, entrepreneurs can get so focused on crushing it for cash that they forget that there are other ways to go about doing business.
This episode focuses on answering that question.
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Podcast: Choosing Your Social Media Haunts (Ep. 1)
We’re pleased to announce that we will be hosting a weekly podcast via iTunes! Each week, we’ll be bringing you a five-minute or less podcast focused on a variety of topics: social media, Internet marketing, entrepreneurship, general business tips and more.
Episode 1: Choosing Your Social Media Haunts
Social media is overwhelming. Let’s face it – with hundreds of sites out there and everyone pushing you in the direction of their favorite, it’s not hard to get completely stressed out by the experience. The thing is, if you aren’t doing social media, you are going to get left behind and the longer you leave it, the harder it is to jump in and catch up on the conversations.
I received a question on my Formspring.me account which asked, “How do I decide which are the best social media sites to take part in?”
This episode focuses on answering that question.
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Read MoreCleaning Up Your Twitter Account
This post is focused not only on why I’m no longer following 10,000 people on Twitter but also on how you can clean up your own Twitter account to get more out of it.
Let me first start with the story of my initial Twitter journey. I started out on Twitter with the mindset that I would follow anyone back that followed me. I looked at it as being generous with my Twitter love. It didn’t seem like that big of an issue until I hit about the 25,000 following mark. Then things went downhill.
You see, I started to suck horribly at seeing other people’s Tweets. I was missing all of the good stuff from the people I actually wanted to hear from / listen to. In fact, I wasn’t getting about 90% of that information. So, I realized that things needed to drastically change.
I looked at the feed moving through the “Home” tab on Twitter and realized that a lot of the people I was following really weren’t providing me the value that I was after. Not only that, they weren’t following the rules that I had set for myself on Twitter. They were spamming links, only doing re-tweets but worst of all, they weren’t engaging.
After doing a bit of research, I found a few tools that would help me clean up my Twitter list and allow me to pay closer attention to those people who were providing true value. I’m going to share those here with you.
Read MoreSocial Media Snubbing
I’ve been taking some time lately to look for interesting and relevant people to add to my list of people I follow on Twitter and doing so has meant that I’ve had the opportunity to meet some really exciting individuals. It’s also meant that I’ve had the opportunity to see who is / isn’t following me already and more importantly… who has blocked me.
Yep, there are people out there who have blocked me from following them.
I’m not embarassed to say so… It doesn’t even really bother me. I just think it’s silly. Blocking users doesn’t mean they can’t see your Tweets… It just means you can’t become one of their followers. So, I suppose they have a very red velvet rope policy about who gets the honor of reading their 140 character updates.
Some of the individuals who have blocked me are people I don’t even know… However, I’ve drawn some parallels. For example, there is a virtual assistant who is very prominent in the industry. She’s got a blog and a forum and such and for whatever reason, she’s blocked me. Maybe she doesn’t want me to be seen on her followers list as I might be competition? Maybe she just doesn’t like me? For whatever her reasons are, I can kind of understand it.
What I can’t understand though is why the other bloggers on her site have also blocked me… I feel transported back to high school where groups of girls would form cliques and gossip about other girls. Gossip and be nasty. Is this really where we’ve gone to in social media?
There must have been conversations amongst them where they have decided to band together and block me as a collective. A clique. To partake in social media snubbing.
I’ve always believed that when you are authentic and 100% yourself, people will either love you or hate you. You draw a line in the sand and people are divided. It makes finding your ideal community or tribe a heck of a lot easier.
It doesn’t bother me when individuals decide to unfollow or block me for their individual reasons. What worries me about social media snubbing is when negativity spurs a group action. When a group of people can be so filled with envy, anger, spite, etc. that they’d take a collective action.
Social media allows us to be social, to build community and to get to know each other a little better. I may not enjoy every single Tweet out there but I’d prefer not to close doors in people’s faces but rather weed out the most valuable followers and engage and interact with them instead.
Have you ever experienced social media snubbing? What did you feel in that moment?
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Read MoreWhat is Threadsy?
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.
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