Today’s top ten picks across the blogosphere, covering such topics as blogging, social media, twitter, social networking, and beyond. Let’s dive in and get our learn on!
- 10 Twitterers and Their Blogs Who Inspire Me
Ari Writer has a great way of sharing wisdom from his peers, as well as telling a lot about himself. When you share others and their expertise you’re also saying a ton about yourself and your expertise. Great post, with a great list of blogs/Twitter peeps to follow.
Personal Branding at Work | Best Practices
Great, great insight into best practices of personal branding that will help you when attempting to personal brand yourself at work or in your industry. Reading these, I can certainly agree that these best practices need to be applied everywhere. Many feel personal branding is an ego-centric practice to make moves for personal gain. It’s not, there has to be balance for everyone using it… and this certainly applies to any type of action you take online today.
2009 Social Media Survey Shows How Women Bloggers Will Change the … – About – News & Issues
This is a great post, looking at surveys done by BlogHer, iVillage, and more at how woman bloggers are changing the world as we know it. In fact, even if you’re not marketing to women, paying attention to the formidable force that women present online is a wise decision for all businesses. At some point, women will be in every conversation that exists online, what are they saying about you and how you affect their lives, whether directly or indirectly.
On Twitter, Most People Are Sheep: 80 Percent Of Accounts Have Fewer Than 10 Followers
These Twitter statistics, from looking at over 7 million accounts, are telling as to what’s really going on with Twitter and the masses (ie, your audience). Social media marketers often get super hyped, because they love a service’s potential, forgetting that if that service is not adopted by your particular audience – then what’s the point. This article is a good look at what all those numbers mean to the average marketer and business attempting to use Twitter.
Ten Reasons Your Small Business Should NOT Use Twitter
There’s a good reason why B.L. Ochman is a go to woman for all things blogging, social media and beyond. This perspective on why businesses should not use Twitter is a great list for all small businesses to look at when thinking of entering the Twitosphere.
Facing A Lawsuit And Complaints From Celebs, Twitter Launches Verified Accounts
Adding verified accounts is a move Twitter should have done from the start — not simply because there were facing ridicule and lawsuits. For the rest of us non-celeb types, this will also be a great feature for people to “value” profiles, and possibly a good way to tell spammers from the rest. Good move Twitter.
Your personal home page is your social media profile
Andy’s move to have his personal site, really be a collective of his “online being” is a great one, especially for service professionals and solopreneurs. Businesses have much more dynamic presences online (or rather, should), but this type of site/presence can be used in “About Me” areas of your current blog. You don’t necessarily need to use a service, like Andy suggested, but that certainly makes it easier for the little guy.
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