Comments on: Social Media = Enhanced Networking 2.0.

By: Chad Sour (@cmsour)

Chad Sour (@cmsour) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:47:19 +0000

I like your comments on “It’s all about who you know.” I had a professor back in the day that would always say “It’s not who you know, it’s who you know that knows what you know.” Makes total sense – you could have all the connections in the world, but they have to know what you’re good at, your passions (professional and personal) to get your butt in the door.

Great post, Lauren.

By: incaross

incaross — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:24:12 +0000

Excellent post. It has provided me with some tidbits to describe social media to my clients.

By: Stuart Foster

Stuart Foster — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:30:09 +0000

I just look at social media as a kick ass ice breaker. You can’t beat it. It lowers the risk for both parties and makes engaging on a familiar level that much easier.

The thing I love about it is the complete randomness that sometimes occurs. I use it primarily as a means to meet pr/marketing types who I can learn from (or partner with) to improve my blog/consulting company. But I find random people that don’t fit into that specific mold all the time (and often those people can be just as interesting).

By: _sarakate_

_sarakate_ — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:39:00 +0000

Great post, Lauren. Social media evolved out of networking in order to enhance it, but I think sometimes people get so caught up in the ‘pissing contest’, they forget what it actually means to interact. Personally, in life in general, as well as online, I would rather have a small group of people I trust and cooperate with, people who I am able to have mutual relationships of teaching/learning and sharing opinions with, rather than a large group of people who just float around the perimeter.

It’s my view, the more people bring this into their everyday communication strategy, whether personal or professional, the more they will get out of the relationships they have.

By: Carl Zeutzius

Carl Zeutzius — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:23:14 +0000

Well written article which clearly states the direction marketing and networking is heading. I recently did a presention to our office about LinkedIn and many people are starting to use it. It has been a great tool for me as our Director or Sales and Marketing.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:32:25 +0000

I’m new to all of this and what you say makes sense to me. My idea when I started LinkedIn, Twitter, FB, Tumblr, etc was to help promote myself first and if that drives people to engage me personally, then professionally, great. I’m a work in progress and I’ve got to hone my writing skills. I also know even though I’ll err, I’m not trying to vandalize the web. I’m also smart enough to realize that less is more, esp if the content isnt there or I don’t know what I’m talking about.
What disappoints me can also serve as a lesson in what not to do. The spammers, check out my blog, wanna make money…and so on.
When I go to a party, I dont take business cards. I’m more successful when people ask me what I do. I keep it brief and they will let me know if they want to learn more.
My social media goal is to meet more people, establish good friendbased relationships first. I know that people can stop following as easy as they started. So, as soon as the vandals of the internet teach me what not to do….I’ll probably unfollow…I hope it’s not you.

By: Deirdre Reid

Deirdre Reid — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:24:29 +0000

This is the first blog post I’ve read this morning (remember, I’m on Pacific time) and it will be hard to top. You summed up really nicely why social media/networking has been such a quality of life enhancer to so many of us.

Two other positives came to mind. People give a lot in social networking and so lots of opportunities come up to really show a person how appreciative you are of their knowledge and/or resourcefulness. And that feels good on both sides.

Also, it makes it easy to connect people to each other. I like it when I can connect two of my twitter friends somehow and then they start following each other and start a twitter “relationship.” Which reminds me, isn’t it funny how our real life friends (who aren’t on twitter or don’t blog) give us funny looks when we talk about someone and label them as our “twitter friend.”