If you want to know who the users are on different social networks I got it for you.
In more plain English terms this what people would say, I stole if from a friend and I am pretty sure he won’t mind me using it:
MySpace User: Hey man, check out these sweet shoes I just bought!
Facebook User: I just bought some shoes from the mall.
Twitter User: I’m at the mall buying shoes.
LinkedIn User: I own a shoe store, you should come work for me.
I talk to a lot of people about social media. The biggest concerns I hear are about privacy and how to act online. Most people are not like me or the CEO of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh, where we talk about whatever we are doing and don’t care who sees it.
Personally I have accounts on: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and many others. All of my accounts are public so anyone in the world can see who I “really” am and even how to contact me.
But if you think that is too much I will disagree. Nowadays if you are in sales people will search for you on online to see if they can find who you are. This helps the customer to build trust if they know what your life is like and they may even find something in common and that can help close the sale.
Make sure when you are talking to customers and they mention golfing for example and you HATE golfing that you don’t tell your customer that you love golfing and you need to set up a tee time for next week then they go jump online to one of your social profiles and you are the founding member of the why I hate golf club.
One other thing is don’t alter your pictures to make you look different than you actually are. As soon as you meet the customer in person or they see your online profile and you look completely different you just lost their trust in you because you are misleading and deceiving.
Hopefully that gives you some insight on how to marry your real life with your online profiles.
On January 20th, millions of eyes were on Washington for the swearing in of our 44th president Barack Obama. Not only watching TV but streaming online from CNN, Fox News, Hulu, and others.
I was more focused on CNN because they were utilizing Facebook Connect allowing you to watch and comment on Facebook and read others comments. It took about 10 minutes for me to get connect because of the high use. Below is the screen shot from the stream.
And at 12:00PM exactly the White House’s website got a facelift. I am super happy with the new look, being a website designer I am all into the whole “web 2.0″ look and feel. I really hope that this is the first of many of the government’s sites to get updated. Here is a before and shot of what whitehouse.gov looked like after the jump: Read more »
