I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). This is that post. Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. But rather than believing me, listen to Tom Peters and Seth Godin: . I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. It has changed my perspective.

I can't find them listed on any kind of social site. I did a quick search and didn't find many blog posts mentioning that specific event. A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post.

During the last year, I’ve spoken to numerous investor relations officers (IROs) on the topic of social media and investor relations.  Update your FAQ’s or create a blog and use this as fodder.  Simply write out the questions you receive on a regular basis along with the answers you provide, post within your existing FAQs or blog and direct callers to the website. IROs tend to be the last holdouts within a company’s communication teams to embrace changes in the communications process.  Holding out is usually blamed on two reasonable excuses:

For example, here's a page on that site that summaries my recent blog posts: [link] Tags: Social Media Marketin Southern California is a hotbed of technology companies that are leaders in their sector. This includes MySpace, CitySearch, Ticketmaster, eHarmony, and thousands of lesser known technology companies. A

Done right, the social founder can leverage their massive number of followers and reach every key influencer they could ever dream of. Being a social founder isn’t for everyone, but there are a few who have done it well. From Twitter, to podcasts, to his own blog, Jason has done it all. It’s interesting (to me at least) the vast audiences that tech founders are able to assemble. Through their own products and others, they manage to build massive communities that in many cases, hang on their every word tweet.

Editor’s note: This is part 5 in the series of Lessons Learned:  Easy tips on how to create and grow a social media program.   Create a Social Media Policy Grow your social media program and overall web presence This series includes a discussion on the following topics: Research your business

I'm hoping you can help me figure out who I should be connecting with on this. I find myself speaking at various venues in Los Angeles to tell people (most often service providers) about how I've used social media and particularly my blogs, LinkedIn, twitter and topic hubs as part of my own services business. These presentations always inspire people to do more with LinkedIn, create or improve their blog, and maybe do more with Twitter. Invariably I'm asked by an accountant, lawyer, wealth manager, placement specialist, insurance agent, etc.: How can I get

Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media” is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Thanks in advance!

Based on a question I posted in LinkedIn, Serena Ehrlich posted How to Use Social Media to Find Prospects... and provides the following list of suggestions for ways to use social media to build a reputation and to reach prospects. On the other hand, you might blog your answers and post a link. Or Sell a House... Her list included quite a few things that would likely be much farther down my list: Create short videos of your presentations.

Sometimes I’ll see people who want to make people aware of a blog posting.  They’ll Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitte There is much confusion on how to use the Twitter @ sign – even amongst daily Twitter users.  So So as part of my ongoing series Twitter Insights , I wanted to cover how the @ actually works (even experienced users may be surprised by some of the points)