Best Social Media Advice From This Site

May 12, 2008 · Comments

social media 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

Social Networks

Social Media

Twitter

Personal Branding

Making Media

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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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  • Oh my god! Thanks! Very exhaustive list! I always wanted to know about this. Now, let me get down to it. I am sure this will work in Pune real estate market too.
  • Great comprehensive list Chris. I'll be sending people to this link often!
  • 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!
  • gr..8 list .. fantastic sitemap about social media
  • Thanks Chris, superb resource.
    Digging it and sharing with Bemba.com and Fleck.com
  • 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!
  • nice list here, I'll bookmark for sure!
  • 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.
  • First time I'm here. Looks like you've been active :) There's a lot of stuff there to check out.
  • 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.
  • Thank you Chris. Very good information for my work.
    ;)
  • Very informative list..thank you for the list..
  • Thanks much. One stop shopping for all of us! So much good stuff - where do I begin?
  • Wow, thank you Chris and Alex. Can't wait to start plowing through these links!
  • Wow, wow, wow Mucha Merci and where is the tips jar ?
  • Chris you've outdone yourself, this is most definitely some awesome "Good Reads".
  • 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.
  • Sweet list! Hmmm, I think I see the makings of a table of contents for a book
  • Chris, Best Social Media Advice is quality content
    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.
  • Excellent resource - thanks a lot for sharing
  • compassioninpolitics
    151 Diggs and increasing. Nice.

    I guess thats Brogan rockstar social media love....
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Nice list, will have to take a look through this. Thank you.
  • 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!
  • Jim
    Great article. thanks so much for posting.
    Jim
  • great resources Chris
  • Alexa27
    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.

    -Alexa
  • What a great resource. Thanks Chris and Alexa for putting that together.
  • Thanks for such a informative articles! It meant social media from around the web but this is a nice surprise.
  • Thanks, Chris. I love this article
  • oh man, this is awesome! its like a textbook on becoming like chris brogan. my sincerest thanks to both of you for putting this together.
  • Thanks for this list. I re-read a lot of these and it's nice to have them aggregated in one area like this.
  • Intense, looks like I have some reading to do!
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