Comments on: Mapping My Social Media Empire

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:25:51 +0000

Good post. Wrote something similar not to long ago: http://blog.poplabs.com/2009/12/social-media-for-business/

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:13:17 +0000

I am truly grateful for this, Glenda. Even though you and I are about the same age, you perform much more like a ‘native’ in the internet than I. I’m working on my media inventory map now.

I do not participate in some of the bubbles shown in your map. Some of my hesitation for using Flickr, for example, has to do with protection or security or risk of copyright infringement. Would you consider posting your thoughts on those issues?

Thanks, again.

By: Taylor Marek

Taylor Marek — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:54:26 +0000

Well said Glenda. That is exactly how you should treat these social media platforms. You are using all of them to drive traffic back to your new media hub, which is your blog.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:46:58 +0000

Wow, I don’t know where to start with this comment. I enjoyed reading it, but I enjoyed reading your reply to Ricky more — especially where you admit guilt to sending every tweet to your Facebook profile wall and confess it’s the one way I can have an active presence on Facebook without spending too much time there.

Maybe your Facebook friends are different and more tolerating than mine, but friendship is a reciprocal action. Unlike Twitter followers, one needs to be approved by you to “follow” you on Facebook. More to the point, the other person has to approve you. If you are only sending tweets there, or tweeting the majority of the time and spending little time posting anything but, and not replying to your friends’ wall updates, you’re not using FB and might as well kill your account.

Like Ricky alluded, I hide people from my Facebook stream if they automate too much.

On the other hand, if you create a Facebook page, e.g. facebook.com/ariwriter, then people can follow you without mutuality.

I also dislike LinkedIn connections who tweet every message to their LI status.

I grasp the point of crossing the streams but there comes a time when enough is enough. It’s one thing to use social media channels as outposts for your blog, but do you want to risk mutual connections of yours to hide or unfriend you?

By: Business Development | Social Media Literacy | GTD and Productivity Workflow

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:20:30 +0000

[...] Mapping My Social Media Empire As I see it, my blog is the center of my media empire with seven smaller territories or outposts: Twitter, FaceBook, Linkedln, YouTube, Flickr, StumbleUpon, and Email Broadcast. [...]

By: Glenda

Glenda — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:56:30 +0000

Eric thanks for the mention in your post – Social Media Marketing; Your Blog is the Center Hub. At present, Twitter and Facebook are my largest, most effective outposts. Linkedln is under utilized. StumbleUpon can be powerful in driving traffic long-term.

It really depends on which media/outposts individuals are most comfortable in using and then finding ways maximize those outposts, using the least-comfortable ones in a more complimentary/supportive role – if that makes sense.

By: Glenda

Glenda — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:42:36 +0000

Mama Terapeuta, I always love reading your posts! Hopefully adding TweetMeme will extend your reach as well. I think I’ve joined TweetMeme, but I’ll double-check – so many sites to join!

By: Glenda

Glenda — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:31:18 +0000

Schmutzie, have fun doing the exercise. You might be amazed by what you discover!

By: Glenda

Glenda — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:25:15 +0000

Ricky, thanks for your detailed comment! I was nearly finished writing a detailed response, then I accidentally hit ESC and the comment friggin’ escaped!

As I was saying…I checked the settings with Networked Blogs and they were already set as you said. Either the double posting on the Profile page is a bug with Networked Blogs or I’m doing something wrong – or both!

When to automate is a dilemma. I’m one of those guilty of feeding my tweets to my Facebook status. It’s the one way I can have an active presence on Facebook without spending too much time there.

Good point about Flickr. I did miss the red arrow linking Flickr to Facebook, although that isn’t updating – yet another setting somewhere? I’m reluctant to add the Flickr Widget to my blog because of potential accessibility issues, particularly for screen reader users – something I need to look into.

Interesting about TweetMeme. I’m not sure what what the deal is.

This is definitely a work in progress!

By: Eric Brown

Eric Brown — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:29:32 +0000

Hi Glenda,
Your graph is an excellent illustration of the flow of information to and from that helps create and expand your Digital Footprint.

Any of those outposts that are more or less important in your opinion?

We have referenced your post in a recent article.