Whenever I give a workshop relating to social media, I often ask the following question when talking about social networks: “How many of you are currently on LinkedIn ?&#. then ask those same people: &# How many of you have ever actually received any value from being on LinkedIn&# ? Create a profile on LinkedIn.

Recently, I was asked to present to a group of United Way volunteers about the basics of social media (SM) and advise them how best to take advantage of these new tools to further their mission and achieve their goals. Three of the most common SM tools that I will focus on here are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. That’s it.

This post is the third in a 4-part series on social media policies. In this part, we're looking at user agreements and moderation guidelines for an organization's official presence in social spaces like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. So does LinkedIn and Twitter. Tags: social media policies Remember, I'm not a lawyer.

Should my association have a social media policy? The true goal of every type of social media or web policy should be to make interacting on the social web easier, more comfortable, and safer for your stakeholders. Tags: social media policies get that question a lot. Short answer.yes. But what are we talking about here? Period.

In Part I of this two-part post on social media (SM), I briefly covered the key features of Facebook and Twitter, and I gave some examples of their uses. In another post about swine flu, I talked about responding to the media during a crisis. Now I’ll move on to LinkedIn, the third and final SM tool I’ll review here.

Although you know I hate to fan your social media flames, here are the latest social media usage stats from the Pew Internet Project. Of these, 73% have Facebook accounts, 48% use MySpace, 14% use LinkedIn. Some highlights: 46% of online American adults are social network site (SNS) users. This figure was only 8% on February 05.

for your reading pleasure here's a list of titles of social media books scheduled to be release 2009 – 2010. The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media by Paul Chaney - Sept 22,2009 2. Public Relations and the Social Web: How to Use Social Media and Web 2.0 Ta da. Yes We Did!

I spoke with a local consulting firm a couple months ago about social media, and we started talking about social media etiquette. Because social media is so new and just starting to be widely adopted, there are not a lot of standards in place for etiquette. What lessons have you learned in social media etiquette?

Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn and YouTube are sites that are in the broad category of “social media.” Social media sites are sites that make it really easy for people to connect with other people. And social media sites often have made-up names or names with weird spelling like Plurk or Flickr. and included the P.S.

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