Best Social Media Advice From This Site
I’m passionate about how certain strategies married to certain technologies allow individuals and companies to build things: reputation, trust, personal brand, community, relationships, and even marketplaces. My efforts to cover larger stories, tools, strategies, and more over the last several months have given you quite a bit to consider. But blogs are a tricky method for learning and reflecting. They’re like a running stream, and if you step out for a moment, a certain point in the stream will pass you by.
To that end, I’ve collected some links to the posts that I think might be helpful to you. Peruse these at your leisure. I’ve grouped them a bit for you. Feel free to pick and choose the topics that matter to you. I hope this proves helpful. If it does, please consider blogging a link to this post, and/or feel free to pass it on to any who might want more of this type of information.
There’s a lot here. Feel free to bookmark it for later. (And if you want even more to read, sign up for my free newsletter, which is even MORE original content.)
Thanks!
Community Development
- Understanding Community Development Strategies
- Ways to Disrupt a Community
- Why Do Community Development
- Should Your Small Business Use Community Tools
- The Long Tail of Community
- If Communitites Are Just Marketing Pools
- The Magic of Including People
- Meeting People at Events
- The Community Play
- The Community Ecosystem
- How Blogs Improve Customer Service and Product Development
Social Networks
- Three Things LinkedIN Does Better than Facebook
- How I Use Facebook
- Things To Do on Facebook
- Facebook - Let Me See My Friends
- Fix Your Facebook Profile Now
- Facebook and the Social Graph - Who Benefits
- Five Things to Do on LInkedIN
- Considering Social Etiquette
- Social Networks are Your Local Pub
- Why Join Another Social Network
- Marketers in a Social Network World
- Real Live Human Social Networking
- Social in Real Space vs. Social Networking
- Making Social Networks Work
- Improve Your Social Network
- The Importance of a Human Social Network
- Three Untapped Values of Social Networks
- Five Things to Do at a Social Networking Meetup
Social Media
- Social Media Starter Pack
- A Basic Social Media Strategy
- My Social Media Toolkit
- A Sample Social Media Toolkit
- Participation- The Key to Social Media
- Social Media - Talk is Cheap for Businesses
- How Big Companies could Use Social Media
- Social Media Inside the Firewall
- Social Media Power Secret - Listening
- Small Businesses And Social Media
- Social Media is a Set Not a Part
- Social Media for Your Career
- Help Someone Understand Social Media
- Social Media as Personal Power
- Snake Oil in Social Media
- Using Social Media to Meet People
- Social Media Starter Moves for Entertainers
- Social Media Starter Moves for Real Estate
- Social Media Starter Moves for Freelancers
- How I Use Twitter
- Deeper Twitter - Tuning Twitter for Value
- Newbies Guide to Twitter
- Twitter as Directors Commentary
- Twitter as an Advisory Board
Personal Branding
- The Power of Personal Leadership
- Slicing Time in a Face to Face Environment
- Brand Stories
- Some Quick Branding Tips for Individuals
- The foundations of Your Power
- Personal Scalability
- Personal Branding and Social Media
- Passion Drives Personal Brand
- Elements of a Personal Brand
- Challenges of Social Media Types in the Workplace
- The Value of Networks
- Scaling Yourself
Making Media
- Why Create Personal Media
- Whats Your Social Media Strategy
- Media Makers Next Steps
- Blogging Advice for the Next Level
- Expand Your Audience
- The Future of Microcontent and Hperlocal Media
- Why Bother Blogging Podcasting and Using Social Networks
- Consider Your Media-as-Business Strategy
- Marketing Media Means Moments That Matter
- Using Social Sharing to Extend Your Message
- Performance and Your Audience - Blogging Tips
- Advice for Traditional and Local News Media
- Tagging and Metadata and Why Bother
- A Sunday Newspaper Strategy for Traditional Companies
- Promoting Your Media
- The Power of Links
- 20 Blogging Projects for You
- Succeeding in Independent Online Media
- Seven Blog Improvements You Can Make Today
- Keeping the Blogging Fires Burning
- 100 Blog topics I hope YOU Write
- 100 PodCamp Topics for You to Cover
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Special thanks to Alexa Scordato for compiling this data on my behalf. It was a lot of work. Thanks!
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Fantastic Chris! Definitely bookmarked.
It is so wonderful to see how many helpful and informative posts you have written and shared with us over time. Thank you.
Big thanks to Chris and Alexa for this awesome list. It’s like one-stop shopping for social media noobs. Kudos!
Fantastic post! The internet is meant to make information gathering easier, but it is SO hard to find the best of the best. This is a super collection of very valuable resources! Great work Alexa and Chris!
OMG! Awesome mate!…and I *will* bookmark because there *is* a LOT of stuff!
Great work, and muchosthanks!
Quite a nice collection you have built up over time Chris. From twitter I assumed you meant social media from around the web but this is a nice surprise.
Chris, superb list here..I have been following your site for about 2 months and I must say, this stuffs are great. You just want to read more again and again. Thanks a lot mate.
Great post, very nice collection of links, I’ll be bookmarking this and going through all the links. Thanks.
Thank you Chris. I’m relatively new to blogging and the finer details of social media. These articles are a great reference for me, and I’ll be referring friends and colleagues.
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Wow this is a great list. I know that it is nice to find resources for different areas but this is a great list of all of the stuff that matters from your own blog.
Nice cherry picking of your own posts!
To run the risk of sounding repetitive… Wow!
Seriously though, this is a great resource and I thank you for putting it together.
For someone like me who’s new to all this and wants to catch up yesterday, this is a gold mine!
May Niebu smile warmly upon you!
Thanks Chris, great list! I know how long it takes to sift through everything to make a good list, so thanks for taking the time :)
I was just catching up with your recent Tweets about LinkedIn and how someone turned down an invitation to connect (it was unclear as to why and I didn’t want to poke my head into a conversation I didn’t belong to in the first place)…
In any case, your tweet and those post prompted me to follow up on the articles here referencing LinkedIn. The thing is, I like LinkedIn for it’s “reputation management” abilities (as you refer to it in your post). It’s a great way to connect and engage with others in support of your work. It’s very clean and professional and virtually spam free.
The only drawback (if you can call it that) is, have you ever noticed that some of your contacts don’t utilize LinkedIn as much as you do? I like to connect on LinkedIn at least once every two weeks. I do so by sending an email through their email system and it’s usually business related or a little more personal in nature. It’s about connecting with those individuals in my network.
Anyway, I think that if you actively engage with your network, you can grow it and be more effective with it but you have to engage often (I think they call this consistency, lol).
Well, looks like I have some more reading to do so I’ll catch you later.
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if ever High Quality has ever been posted. (And it Has)
This will be a blessing for many Online, so Digg it we
must. Matter of fact I’m a new Subscriber to this Blog.
Be Blessed always…Peace!
Pretty remarkable that you’ve been able to amass that much relevant, smart information in this blog in the past 12-24 months. I think we’re all lucky to have a guy like you in this community.
Chris, I made your subheads links back to this article,but used a lot of your content. Glad to take it down if you think it’s too much.
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can’t wait to dig through these post tomorrow, great reading but I must get sleep. Great list thanks.
I am relatively new to your site and I really enjoy your articles! It looks like I have some catching up to do!
I agree with what Jonathan said above…I’m fairly certain you just posted the outline of your book.
Still…can’t express thrilled I am you did this. As I’ve told you in the past…you do an amazing job of explaining all this stuff in everyday terms. Your posts are the ones I print out for top level execs and they’re the ones I forward on to folks who don’t spend everyday in this stuff.
Wow nice list! I have so many bookmarks I should categorize and do the same with and now you just added a whole list of useful sites for me to have a look at.
Thanks man!
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I’m a little behind commenting on this, but I really have to publicly thank you Chris for letting me tackle this with you.
As everyone has already acknowledged, the wealth of information you’ve managed to put out in the past year is not only valuable, it’s inspiring. The content you put out is thoughtful, thorough, and always a step ahead. You successfully balance honesty with analysis, humor with opinion, and quality with quantity.
Even though I was a frequent reader of this blog prior to the assignment, it wasn’t until I spent hours trying to archive your posts, knee deep in links and trackbacks that I really grasped the magic you have going on here.
On average, you blogged more than 50 posts a month, sometimes updating as frequently as 3 or 4 times a day. In addition to your content, you also managed to develop an impressive readership - a community of dynamic, creative, and articulate individuals who all do what you preach: think, participate, and communicate. Did you know that out of the 528 posts I read through, the average post had at least 13 comments? Only 6% of your posts had 0 and these entries were audio based posts via Utterz or some other service where comments were posted externally.
I haven’t told you this yet, but I actually printed out the 22 page excel sheet I generated listing every single blogpost on here. Not only is it a visual reference I look at when I want to quickly find a post, it is a daily reminder of lessons I learned from you and this site:
1. Be passionate. Social media is constantly evolving and folks move fast in this world. It’s exhausting trying to keep up, but only those who really love it can.
2. Be a sponge. Read and learn from anything and everyone and constantly seek out new sources of information and opinion. Ask questions.
3. Be a creator of quality content. Whether its blogging, vlogging, podcasting, programming, etc. producing content is key. It’s one thing to observe and talk about social media. It’s another thing to actually make it, live it, breath it.
4. Be a person. Yeah chrisbrogan.com is IMO the #1 source for all things social media, but it’s also a great resource for how to be a listener and well-rounded human being. There are some great posts about family, friends, and balancing work/play and professional/personal time. We all have to unplug sometimes.
5. Participate online and offline. It’s not enough to develop surface connections with people via urls, friend requests, and email. Make the effort to meet someone face to face and converse in real time.
There’s more I can add to this list, but these are really the big picture ideas that are embedded in my head after reading your blog.
To any aspiring rockstars looking to stay afloat in social media waters, this site is the golden life preserver.
Thanks again Chris.
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