Top 15 Social Media & Networking Sites
It’s a crazy time. You could spend literally most of your time keeping up with social media and networking sites working towards more exposure and networking opportunities. The reality is it is very difficult to keep tabs on all the various “pages”, accounts, friends and networks once they are setup.
While your WordPress site makes this process a little easier by virtue of plugins, you still need to make the time to get your WordPress Site out there!
Step One: Get Your Profile and WordPress Site Info in Place /
That is why it is so important to choose those that work best for you and that you enjoy. If you think about it, if you don’t enjoy what you are doing it becomes more of a chore. And, when you are not enjoying yourself, you end up not doing as good of a job as you should.
For my sites/Blogs, I utilize about a handful of the list below on a regular basis. Even then I find that my time is pressed to do the best I can. The key is to determine what your goals are — what you enjoy — and do your due diligence to know which site/service would help you accomplish those goals (and have some fun in the process). Then make the time to take the time to stop in on a regular basis, engage and participate!
Most importantly, gratuitous efforts to just “be there” to push your products/services will be clear to the other participants of the site and be basically ineffective. Remind yourself of the definition of social:
–adjective
- pertaining to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; friendly; sociable; gregarious.
- of, pertaining to, connected with, or suited to polite or fashionable society: a social event.
Always remember that genuine, quality, consistent participation are at the heart of any productive social media or networking efforts.
- Digg
- Technorati
- YouTube
- Stumbleupon
- MySpace
- Plaxo
- Sphinn
- SelfGrowth
- Flickr
- Mixx
- FriendFeed
“The thing about Social Media that frustrates marketers to no end is that you can’t buy attention and that if you have no choice, but to think and act small, then you’ll try to say well here is a 100,000 person community, how can we buy it? What you’ll do instead if you’re just four people, how can we amaze them? That change in posture, that change in attitude is the single biggest shift, that’s going on the Internet right now.”
~ Seth Godin.
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Judith
Your WordPress Consultant
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