Comments on: The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media

By: wrought iron furniture

wrought iron furniture — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:47:14 +0000

Thanks for the great article on the seven deadly sins of social media!

By: Jennifer Kelton

Jennifer Kelton — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:12:01 +0000

Thanks for this! Spot on!

By: Dan Hutson

Dan Hutson — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:03:10 +0000

I love this list. I started my blog only three months ago, and have been tweeting for a shorter time. Since the organization I currently work for as communications director isn’t ready for social media of any kind, I wanted to create a place where I could learn the tools and share with others what I’ve learned over the past 25+ years working in marketing and communications.

Every new technology and innovation attracts the get-rich-quick and snake-oil crowd. Thanks to the negligible cost of entry and free publishing technologies on the internet, they’ve flocked here in droves.

For those who are sincerely trying to provide a service (and make a decent living doing it), quality of relationships will always trump quantity. Social media for the MLM crowd is almost an oxymoron.

My goal is to put something out there that is of genuine value to the niche I seek to serve. If that means I never have more than 500 or 1,000 people following me or reading my blog, I’m fine with that. As long as the people I’m connected to value what I offer, put it to use in their organizations and share it with others who (I hope) then join us, I’m good to go.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:58 +0000

Glenn, I’ll meet at confession!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:30 +0000

Thomas – great post! Glad I inspired you!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:12 +0000

Hey ukrainiac —

Good questions. It depends what your goals are, but to me Twitter is always a place to connect with people – learn, teach, connect. If you want to promote your business that is OK – but you first have to establish relationships and listen to what people have to say. They will be much more receptive to any offers you have if they first know you actually care about what people are saying about your product /industry. Teaching/helping/reaching out to people is good for business and also happens to be fun.

Retweeting is always a good idea, you can share good info that helps your followers and you show people you are here to participate and it’s not all about you.

You can converse with people here but if it seems like it’s getting too in-depth for here then DM and exchange contact info and continue the conversation outside of Twitter. There are no rules about it – just go with what feels right.

It’s all a little confusing at the start and there is a learning curve – just remember be authentic, engage people and pay attention to what others are doing. You can always email me if you want to talk more about any of this.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:20:36 +0000

Loved your post so much I thought about the 7 virtues of social media.
http://ttrumble.com/the-seven-virtues-of-social-media/

By: Glenn Hilton

Glenn Hilton — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:43:05 +0000

Love this article Jennifer! Can resonate w/ many of those sins. Think I need to go to confession now :)

By: Sherra Scott ~ Virtual Assistant

Sherra Scott ~ Virtual Assistant — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:28:38 +0000

That sums it up very well Jennifer! This will be “retweeted”!

By: ukrainiac

ukrainiac — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:14:46 +0000

As a new twitter user (though I signed up a year ago…didn’t even know what to do!), I appreciate this post. I’m still quite a rookie — have retweeted a couple of interesting links — but I am not really sure whether twitter is meant for real conversations or simply to drive people someplace else. (Does that make sense?)

I have discovered some very interesting sites, and I then follow those blogs or send an email, but not sure if that’s supposed to also be done right on twitter. Thoughts?