Comments on: Networking with Social Media

By: Frank Fox

Frank Fox — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:26:04 +0000

Thanks for all the great information. This was really helpful

By: William J. Osgood

William J. Osgood — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:45:02 +0000

hello Ivan,
This article is very powerful and well thought out, thank you. When mentioning the budgeted time allotment and strategy for how to respond, post and have conversations, I have a very powerful suggestion to help with this.

I recommend to my clients to spend increments of 15 minutes, no more in what is called the 15 minute game. This is to keep strategically focused on the most important elements of social media and networking without distracting or detracting from the major projects you are working on.

I challenge your readers to adopt a strategy that literally breaks up the online networking/ social media strategy into a series of 15 minute games. Your readers, if they accept this challenge will find out they can perform at sometimes a 3 to 4 increase in productivity with better quality.

best,
William

By: Jean@MommyToTwoBoys

Jean@MommyToTwoBoys — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:52:06 +0000

Great article. I especially like your thoughts on organizing and planning things out. Thanks!

By: Laura Wagner » BNI’s Founder Ivan Misner Gives Advice About Social Media

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:02:53 +0000

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By: Rick Itzkowich -TheLinkedInGuy

Rick Itzkowich -TheLinkedInGuy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:09:09 +0000

Ivan, your points are right on. I totally agree with you that people need to be much more strategic about Social Networking if it is going to pay off for them.

As you know, I was recently in Dubai where National Director Bijay Shah invited me to conduct a special session for the BNI members in the area. During this session I specifically covered how to use LinkedIn to generate more quality referrals and visitors to their chapters.

I will also volunteer to contribute an article on LinkedIn with particular emphasis on how to use it in conjunction with BNI.

By: Ivan Misner

Ivan Misner — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:28:12 +0000

Simon, the comments go through filters and moderation. Bunny, our SuccessNet editor handles this. Erin has no control over the newsletter comments. It was truly just chance that you tweeted it at the same time that it went up. Bunny told me of the comment and that brought me to the reply that went up soon after your post was approved through the filter.

You are absolutely welcome to submit a guest article. There is an ‘article submission’ item on the newsletter. Remind Bunny about this dialog.

I have also invited a BNI Director with expertise in this area to share his knowledge in one of the next editions.

Many thanks.

Ivan

By: Simon Bunker

Simon Bunker — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:39:54 +0000

In response to Dr Misner:

Thanks Dr Misner for responding to my comments. It was a little disappointing that my comments were initially not published and it took a tweet to get some connection with Erin Millinger to get this resolved. Anyway, for sure I agree that you have to pitch the article at a certain level although that was not immediately obvious to me in the first instance. My main point was, that a detailed strategy is not suited to everyone. It will work for some and not for others so maybe presenting some alternative views on this would be of use. Personally I like the more ad hoc approach and it seems to work very well for me. Granted it will not be for everyone but its an alternative!
Maybe I could write a guest article for you on the subject and maybe offer my view and share how I approach Social Media with your readers?
Thanks again for your considered response.

By: Jonathan Blecher

Jonathan Blecher — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:34:31 +0000

My chapter’s SEO and web designer has integrated my social media into my websites, which sit on page 1 of Google searches for Miami DUI Lawyer. We now have a social media category in our chapter to help our members take advantage of this invaluable marketing tool.

By: Andrew Billington

Andrew Billington — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:49:51 +0000

Excellent information and tips! It’s so easy to lose track of time on the social media websites. My plan has been to avoid them to stay on track focusing on what is important. However the idea of cotweet is great; I personally use Hoot Suit it keeps life simple. Is one better than the other!

Thanks for the tips!

By: Donna Stone

Donna Stone — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:45:13 +0000

Ivan, good enough article, but I’ve got to agree with Simon Bunker to a degree. I’m a bookkeeping consultant, so a details person. I want specifics! Your article is more generalised, and really about time management and planning – what about specifics on HOW to make LinkedIn or Facebook work? I’m in no way new to business, but definitely new to social media and really it seems to be you just figure it out yourself. A article on each separate media with details and examples would be great – eg, how to you build up numbers on LinkedIn and then what do you do with them. Specifics! Write some articles like that and it will be well worth the time to read. Up to the challenge?