Social Media Professor

Social Presence Tools, originally uploaded by fredcavazza.
Frederic Cavazza has a brilliant mind—he’s organized the social web into PICTURES; now I understand it a little better.
You should browse through Frederic’s photostream and then do a search for him on Flikr to see his many presentations on social media. Good stuff. [trey pennington]

In another great post Chris says, “Social Media Lets You Go Wide, But YOU Have to Make it Go Deep: The tools we use to create social media: blogging, podcasting, video, social networks, etc, are great at building potential relationships, growing community, serving an audience, helping people find your business, and several other things.
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Chris did the hard work of organizing social media articles into useful categories to give you a competitive edge. read more | digg story

Great comprehensive article identifying social media options. The chart is particularly helpful.read more | digg story

“Without Reply, Twitter turns into a one way telephone conversation. Pulling the feature out is equivalent to a frontal lobotomy - Twitter is still walking around, but there’s a blank stare in its eyes.
So why aren’t people screaming about the feature being gone? Because this time, they’re just heading over to Friendfeed…”
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Is the art of conversation lost? Isn’t “social media” all about the human interaction? According to Mark Collier, if you’re using social sites and tools as one-way channels to promote your content, you aren’t practicing social media, you are in broadcast media.
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To quote a famous turtle, “Focus, dude, focus.” Keep your blog posts from wandering with these ten ideas.read more | digg story

Here are a few sample social media tools and what they can be used for.
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Why you should listen before you leap. Social media is cool, way cool, but don’t fall in love with the technology before you fall in love with the people you help. Consider Mark Collier’s quick four points.read more | digg story

Social media entrepreneur Mari Smith tells you how to jump start your career, build your business, and advance your practice using Facebook.read more | digg story