planting, growing and evaluating your social media network “seed selection and planting”
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Blogs“I’ve got something to say…”
WordPress www.wordpress.com– Most flexible
Blogger www.blogger.com– Best for beginners
TypePad www.typepad.com– Many larger IT benefits
Microblogs“A thought just occurred to me…”
Twitter www.twitter.com– 26 million monthly users– 80 million estimated
monthly visitors (EMV)– Other sources cite over
25 million “tweets” per day
Twitter Apps“How do you keep track of all these Twitter feeds?”
Tweetdeck www.tweetdeck.com– Desktop– iPhone
Seesmicwww.seesmic.com– Desktop, – iPhone, BlackBerry
Uber Twitterwww.ubertwitter.com– iPhone, BlackBerry
“Old School” Social Networking“So what’s been goin’ on?”
Facebook www.facebook.com– 3.1 billion EMV– 500 million active users,
roughly half of whom log in daily
– Personal profiles– “Professional” pages
But what about…?
MySpace www.myspace.com– Lost over 10 million
users since January 2010
Gather www.gather.com– Rallied briefly in 2010– Never has been strong
ProfessionalFacebook for business people… sort of.
Linked In www.linkedin.com– 62.7 million EMV– Free and Fee-based
options– Many people under-
estimate its potential
Social Bookmarking“You’ve really got to read this!”
Digg www.digg.com– 45 million EMV
Reddit www.reddit.com– 16.5 million EMV
StumbleUponwww.stumbleupon.com– 16.5 million EMV
del.icio.us www.delicious.com– 5.5 million EMV
Photo Sharing Hey, check out this picture I took!”
Flicker www.flickr.com– 79 million EMV– Also has video sharing
capabilities
Photobucket www.photobucket.com– 55 million EMV
Picasa www.picasa.google.com– Monthly visitors: ???
Video SharingBecause just about all digital cameras record video now as well.
Youtube www.youtube.com– 175 million EMV
Daily Motion www.dailymotion.com– 13.4 million EMV
Metacafe www.metacafe.com– 11.7 million EMV
Location Based Networking“I’m here. Where are you?”
Foursquarewww.foursquare.com– Network + game– Great for marketing
locations or large brands
Schmapwww.schmap.com– Network + tool– Geotweet app for
iPhone
Places You Can Find Me
From Under My Hatwww.jriutta.com
Facebookwww.facebook.com/fromundermyhat
Twitterwww.twitter.com/fromundermyhator in “twitterese:”@fromundermyhat
The Well-read Naturalistwww.wellreadnaturalist.com
Facebookwww.facebook.com/wellreadnaturalist
Twitterwww.twitter.com/wellreadnator in “twitterese:”@wellreadnat
Linked Inwww.linkedin.com/in/johnriutta
Flickrwww.flickr.com/photos/bornagainbirdwatcher