Filed under: Social Networking by Sarah Bray
November 21, 2008 at 12:59 am [ This post currently has
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Gwen Bell is quickly becoming one of my new favorite people on the internet. I don’t even have to convince you. Just read this post. She took my entrepreneurial heart and made it speed up about ten notches.
Remember that one time when we were talking about shiny people? Gwen is very shiny. And I don’t believe it’s even a marketing thing. She is just authentically her, and she lets that translate into everything she does.
Follow her. Something real and cool (and yes…really cool) is always stalking this woman.
Poor Twitter. It’s been called names (”useless!”), laughed at (”what the heck is a tweep?”), and derided by people who Just. Don’t. Understand.
But Twitter is powerful. It can single-handedly bring down a super-duper expensive ad campaign. It can cause an idea (or product, article, whatever) to spread like the chicken pox. It can help you discover how influential your brand REALLY is online. Most importantly, it’s a way to authentically connect with people of all sorts. Influential people. Blogger people. Customer people. Mommy people. Artsy people. PEOPLE, people.
TaDA! First video cast EVER. I created this especially for the participants of the Startup Princess retreat, since I wasn’t able to be there and didn’t want to waste my amazing insight and speaking ability [insert loud guffaws here]. Without further ado, my top ten web predictions for 2009…
This article alerted me to a concept that I hadn’t thought about before — Twitter has a culture. There’s an etiquette there that you must follow or be ostracized (or at the least, laughed at.)
Such as: don’t follow a bunch of people unless you’re followed by a bunch of people. I hadn’t thought about it, but I guess it makes sense. It keeps you from looking like the desperate pseudo-popular girl in school.
And, of course: don’t just link to yourself all the time. It’s the equivalent of trying to be in EVERY yearbook picture. You know the ones.
I guess most of the rules that the article suggests boil down to one thing: don’t be an internet vampire, looking for what YOU can get out of every relationship. Authentically enjoy the medium for what it is.
