I received my first invitation to Google + a couple of weeks ago and thought to myself, “Oh no, something else to add to my plate.”
It took me a couple of days before I even went in and took a look. What made me look was the new little red button at the top right of my screen when I have my gmail open. I just had to go and look!
I still wasn’t sold when I went in and took a look around. I updated my profile and didn’t really see anything of significance.
Thank goodness for the likes of Mari Smith and Paul Colligan, two people I follow closely. Because of their hard work I began to get a much better understanding of the power of Google +.
I am really looking forward to the launching of the “Business” functions, especially for the “Hangout” function. Might we finally have some real competition for Go To Webinar?
Are you using Google + yet? I would love it if you would share your opinion right here on the blog.
Everything you say and do online is there for other people to see, for other people to get to know who you are. Therefore, you need to be very careful about what you put online. If you’re in a bad mood or something has really got you upset, stay away. Don’t go online and post something that you might regret later. Or if you have absolutely have to, do something in draft mode, and then go back and take a look at it later. Here are five tips to help you protect yourself online.
1. You need to focus. You need to focus on one particular topic or one particular area in your business that you want to be known for. I have seen lots of people out there who are involved in 10, 15, 20 different things. My automatic response is oh my, they must be a scatter brain. Focus. Develop a reputation for a specific area, a specific business. You can move on a develop other areas later.
2. Watch what’s happening in your industry. You’ll be able to see the trends, where things are going, what is happening, who to believe, and who not to believe. All of the different things that are going on your industry, what’s the new technology that applies to your business, what’s the new news that’s happening, maybe a new procedure, a new program. Watch what’s actually happening in your industry so that you, yourself, are also going to stay current. You want to be seen as the expert in your area.
3. You need to be clear in what you’re talking about and you need to be…
I just found this post over on Mashable and had to share it!
I have a number of articles in the works on LinkedIn and am really happy to hear this great news from them.
Here is a piece of the blog post, please head over to Mashable if you are interested in continuing to read…
LinkedIn has launched LinkedIn Today, a new social news product for business professionals.
At a press event Thursday at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and SVP of product Deep Nishar discussed the company’s new product strategy and revealed a few new products.
Weiner says that the company has three central goals as part of its quest to deliver value to its membership. First, LinkedIn wants to be the professional profile of record. Second, the company wants to be the primary source for professional insights. Finally, LinkedIn wants to be ubiquitous in the workplace.
SVP of product Nishar then took the stage to explain that vast amounts of business information pass through LinkedIn’s servers, things like profile views, connections, polls, sharing stats and more. The challenge is finding a way to synthesize and deliver this information in a way that gives its users actionable business data.
With Twitter, you want to think about who you want your followers to be. It is really important to define your target market, to define who you want as your followers.
1) You can do this with key words.
What are the key words that are associated with your business. For me, an example of key words are help with Twitter, Facebook help, learn Facebook, how do I use LinkedIn. Those are a few of the key words that I use in order to find followers. There are a number of tools that you can use to find… (Continue reading)
