Thoughts on blogs|Week of October 4, 2009

Thoughts on Blogs – some selected participation in the social web following the Social Media Academy’s NCP Model

The Social Path-In regards to a wonderful list of ten ways that social media has improved lives in 2008:

I hope you are working on 2009 best of as well. This is the kind of list I should show people who look at me oddly when I say I work with social media.
I also have been trying to collect a list of social media tools that can make our lives easier. Some I have collected are

Carepages.com – helping those with illness stay connected to those who care;

Conference 2.0 – allows conference attendees to connect with others before, after and ever after communities

www.xeesm.com which is in the early beta as a social relationship management tool.
Can you think of any others for my list?

The Productivity Institute-In regards to goal setting for social media time investment:

Bruce, I can’t agree with you more about setting realistic goals.
Doing some kind of assessment first, that analyzes where and who your customers and potential customers are, helps to define issues and spaces.  With goals and spaces defined, you can select the social media tools that best accommodate your available resources (people, time and budget).
Anything that can help see and track where your contacts are and how often you contact them for an organized effort would be very helpful.  Just this week LinkedIn introduced a new feature for organizing contacts (part of the paid upgrade), so they are introducing features that allow for more management of contacts not just linking.  This all helps.

Kyle Lacy -In regards to a post on tips for using Twitter in business setting:

I found your list to be a great compilation of tips for Twitter with a lot of new ones for me to digest.I am ready for the next round of social media tools that will bring more functionality for social relationship management.  For instance, I was running out of room on cards for social media links, plus for the 35 -55 age group, the font is getting too small.. Rather than just place on my website page, which I did as well, I wanted something that might provide more functionality.  I have used the www.xeesm tool and it has helped.  I plan to attend Social Media Tools Week to learn about others. Right now I can track easily all my comments across the blogs I read and post to.  Pretty good when I want to review where I have been for the week.

Social Wayne -In regards to a post on two services that allow you to put social media links in one place:

It was interesting to learn about the two sites/services you mentioned Dandyid and Card.ly.  Do they also track and find my comments across the blogs and sites one comments and posts on?  Some new functionality for social media tools will be front and center during Social Media Tools Week 11/16-21. Ideally, the best tools would let me track who I contact and how often in any social media space would be the most helpful.  Even better if it tied into a CRM system so that I could see better the inbound marketing efforts versus the traditional marketing and where the largest impact is.

www.xeesm.com seems to be going in the right direction.  They are introducing some new functionality during SM Tools week.  I have found this tool quite useful during the preliminary beta and hope they will offer more functionality that will fit my ideal tool better.

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