Aha! One vote on my question-du-jour (albeit unintentional) of which out of the hundreds out there are optimal site for social presence. Delightful!
Category Archives: Social Media
How much should social media cost when I use an external partner? (via Talk is cheap . . .)
Definitely a valuable process!
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Brickfish Social Media: On Top of the World.
So, as I was mentioning yesterday, this link at the top of this post is for the photo that a family member entered in to this contest on Brickfish.
This is a multi-layered reality.
The initial layer is a contest for a scholarship amount or cool camera. We know we’re not likely to win it, but it’s fun trying.
The second layer is this: I’ve been using this interlude as a launching pad to deepen my relationship with various social media platforms, trying to reach out and establish a presence on them as have activity from them. And it’s been greatly successful, and also very fun! You see, there’s a map of the viral activity below the photo itself, so it is all very concrete. Except for the parts that are completely mysterious, like what moves the numbers up exactly, and what is in ‘other’. But, there is concreteness there.
In particular, I celebrate all non-Facebook sites having a strong presence, it relaxes me in the face of all the web=facebook talk.
The third layer of this experience is my relationship to all these different platforms – which will outlive this contest. I know there is a lot out there, and I have been meaning to partake more over time. Suddenly, that time is now! And it’s great, I’m really happy about jump starting my adoption process this way.
So, if you’re so inclined, I’d be delighted if you would view the link and vote if you like (even just viewing is very important), and we can celebrate the WordPress presence (unless it remains shrouded in ‘other’, which would be a shame).
Thanks!
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Some Conclusions to ‘Who Controls Social Media?’ (via Publishing/Writing: Insights, News, Intrigue)
A peek in to the big leagues..
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10 tips to get re-tweeted (via Caliber Pulse)
Great help as I’m just starting to tweet more myself!
via Caliber Pulse
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On our different social media selves!
http://gjmueller.tumblr.com/post/2962901610/multiple-personalities-and-social-media-the-many-faces Many of us keep our private and professional lives separate online. “In the beginning, social media was a personal platform to market myself,” she says. “But as the number of platforms increase, it’s amazing to watch the way that we are adapting to multiple networks—and our ability to communicate and connect with different audiences through different voices online.” ....
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Brickfish Social Media: On Top of the World
Brickfish Social Media: On Top of the World.
Here is the *actual* optimal link to use, to make WordPress show up in the viral map for my family member’s photo!
It’s a bit late, but with WordPress being as it is, anything is possible!
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Hello! Re-starting site w/ Social Media Contest!
Brickfish Whole Story
Hi Everyone!
My name is Claire Stokes, and I’m the sole proprietor of Clarity Solutions, an accounting services firm. I have a lot to say about what I do and all that I think about accounting, but am going to leave that for another day. Today, I’d like to invite you to join in a social media interlude that I’m engaging in.
Someone in my family recently happened across this contest on Brickfish. There are multiple levels to this thing, which I’m going to describe. Please ask if this isn’t clear!
If her photo gets to within the top 200 rankings (she’s within 300 now), she has a chance to win a camera and a small scholarship amount. The winner is chosen by Brickfish, there’s no linear way to make sure she’s chosen. So, that part is fun, but not something we have much control over.
The other part though is that, if you go there and scroll down, there is a ‘viral map’ – something which Brickfish apparently has a patent pending for. Here’s what they say about it: This map shows the number of people viewing this content on websites other than Brickfish. Once this entry has been posted and viewed on another website, the map activates for that site. (There’s also a fun geographic view).
Right now, here are the number of viewers per some of the sites (and where they were yesterday):
Email 670 (was 602)
Facebook 22 (was 15)
Hootsuite 18 (was 8)
Tumblr 14 (was not listed)
Myspace 12 (was 12)
efoliomn 11 (was 11)
Other 10 (was 4)
Longurl 8 (was not listed)
LinkedIn 3 (was not listed)
Twitter 2 (was not listed)
Twitturls 2 (was not listed)
This post here contains a link to the contest, also I’ll post to here from the contest possibly as well. Following that, WordPress activity could generate its own dot!
What I’ve been getting excited about is a contest-within-the-contest: a battle of social media platforms (terminology corrections welcome) as far as viral activity and whatnot.
I’m not the biggest fan in the world of how much Facebook is trying to ‘be’ the web. I’d like for the web to be lots of things, including but not limited to Facebook.. forever. So I would love to see Hootsuite and Twitter and Tumblr and LinkedIn and maybe even late-to-the-dance WordPress all show up on that map, all with *bigger* numbers than Facebook!
If you’re game, I’d love your help! If you’ll view the page, that will make the map change. Voting is fine too, since that’s also there as an option. (The ranking and the ‘warm’ setting etc.. is probably just based on viewing we think, so that’s almost more important than voting even for the main contest). Then if you were even willing to re-post this, that would help boost your platform of choice in the viral part of the contest, too! That’s the other really interesting part, to me..
This contest actually goes till Feb 9, so lots of time yet for that whole viral thing to progress the way it does.
So, that’s the basic story. If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, and I really mean this, if you have any advice, I’d really like to learn about all this as part of this process too.
Oh, and here’s link to the contest: http://ow.ly/3Gn6O
Also, with twitter format being what it is, each message sent that way contains limited info only. Also, Tumblr posts are not usually all that long (this is the longest I’ll post here). But Facebook has the Notes feature, which has extensive capacity, and then only shows up like a normal-sized item in the feed. So I’ve posted a complete list of tweets/messages once so far, for better clarity, may update as well.
Here are those other pages:
FB Clarity Solutions site (more Site-Members always welcome): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clarity-Solutions/386518234391
FB note on this contest with early tweets/messages: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150130921167502
Tumblr Clarity Solutions page: http://claritysoln.tumblr.com/
In any case, that’s the scoop on what all this is about. Hope it makes sense (please let me know if it doesn’t) and would be delighted to see David win over Goliath One More Time!
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Clarity Solutions 