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Social Media and you?

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  • Melanie Wood
    Community Manager

    Hello all,

    I'm going to the Social Media Marketing Bootcamp here in Victoria next week and I was wondering how you use social media?
    Are you on Facebook?
    Do you Tweet?
    Are you LinkedIn?
    How has social media changed the way you communicate?

    Let me know. I love to hear.

    -Melanie

    Posted On April 22, 2009 - 11:26 PM (7 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Tankred
    Moderator

    I'm a premium member in XING as it saves my time because I don't have to typewrite the business cards of my business contacts, anymore. After "real life" we simply meet in XING and keep in touch. I tried other communities like Facebook. But for me, it's just kiddie stuff I don't have time for.

    Posted On April 23, 2009 - 05:55 AM (7 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Melanie Wood
    Community Manager

    Thanks Tankred. I hadn't heard about Xing. Anyone else using XING?

    Posted On April 24, 2009 - 04:51 PM (7 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • QuBe
    Focus Group

    I'm on the Twitters. I don't use it as a "social" media, but primarily as an information stream. Following those people, orgs or companies of interest, can give you brilliant tips, leads, product info and activity updates. It will be even better as more businesses start cluing in to value of having direct and instant communication access to people who have (specifically) expressed their interest in what they're offering or doing.

    All Twitter needs to do is upgrade their infrastucture so it doesn't run like a dial-up connection during daylight hours.

    QuBe.

    Posted On April 24, 2009 - 06:40 PM (7 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Melanie Wood
    Community Manager

    I agree, Twitter is great (and slow). I like to tweet about stuff that's going on in the community, new blog post, contest and such. I'm also following some very intersting people. My feed is twitter.com/melwood.

    -Mel

    Posted On April 24, 2009 - 08:27 PM (7 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Tankred
    Moderator

    Melanie Wood said:

    Thanks Tankred. I hadn't heard about Xing. Anyone else using XING?

    XING is the leading business networking manager in Europe. It has about 7 million members but about half a million premium members (including me). As a premium member, you can use all communication options which are available. Nearly every business contact I have, is available in XING, too. But I must admit, I do (the company I work for does) no business on the american continent.

    Twitter isn't really big here in Germany. Maybe we're not the fastest when it comes to IT innovations.

    Posted On April 24, 2009 - 10:55 PM (7 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

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