Who are your social media connections: Part 2
Last week I posted about being approached by Barbara Talisman from Talisman Associates to comment and contribute on her blog, Talisman Thinking Out loud, to a blog post she was at the time writing on social media connections. A wonderful (I might be biased) post came out of our conversations and interviews and was divided into two parts; it was pretty long as one and I think Barbara forgot how much I like to talk and how difficult it is to interrupt/cut me off when I get going.
The two major questions we talked about for Part 2 of the post, included:
- What does looking at someone’s website or blog tell you about them?
- Does it matter if they represent a company v. personal brand?
Remember with whatever web (2.0 or have we decided on 3.0 yet) era we are in it’s important to remember that our main source of information is the world wide web. World Wide.
How do you, or your brand, want to be portrayed? As somebody who understands the need to claim their space online and engage with their visitors or somebody who half-you-know-what their strategy?
Honestly, it’s 2010 and if you do not have a URL for me to browse to you have lost me. You do not need to be a technical genius to build your own website on Go Daddy (or any of the others) or a blog-website combo on WordPress. If you really cannot build one, ask your network and barter with your strengths – somebody once offered me a home cooked meal (with her family) in exchange for help setting up a WordPress site (the meal/deal was amazing).
