In this new social media space, it’s suddenly important to have friends you can tap to:
- Spread the word (Digg, YouTube embeds, Flickr)
- Contribute (podcasts, Flickr Groups, MySpace friends, comment systems)
- Bounce Ideas Off (blog posts)
- Proofread
- Source Projects – like find good help
- Recommend (personally, or through things like Yelp)
- Check In (Twitter, blog comments)
Subject Matter Experts
If a teen needs advice, you can send people to HeyJosh. If you want financial advice, especially around student loans and scholarships, who else but the Financial Aid Podcast? Want parenting advice? Want a religious perspective? We have friends in new marketing, professional speaking, better pitches, and there are several more like it.
Tools for Voice
We know how to help with bringing a voice to your vision. Do you work for a small children’s center in Maine? We have suggestions on how to improve your fundraising. Do you want to grow your community around your word-of-mouth referral business efforts? We’ve got plenty of friends for that.
Strength in Your Network
Never before have you had the personal opportunity to reach out to so many people, share what you know, and have friends share their ideas and skills in return. You’ve got a great network here, stretching across great blogs, and into all other areas of the web. How could YOU contribute to this, and how can YOU use your superpowers to build someone else’s network? What do you bring to this particular group?
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