Businesses Are Using Social Media – What is Your Social Media Strategy?

We are in the B2B Social Media Era, Either Board the Social Media Train or Get Left at the Station

social media train If you are in business today you need a social media strategy. You know like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter…

How to use the new Twitter Linkedin connection properly

Everyone is all astir over Linkedin finally connecting its status updates to twitter, but in my opinion, this recent update is not as wonderful as it first seems. In fact, in the few days since it’s been started, I’ve already seen the quality of status updates on Linkedin degrade because people aren’t using #in for sending tweets, but instead are sending all of their tweets over to Linkedin. I’ve learned more about cats, sports teams, and other equally irrelevant information (for Linkedin) in the past few days because people haven’t exercised the proper awareness of how to use the new Linkedin Twitter connection effectively.

LinkedIn | Does LinkedIn Even Care?

LinkedIn not only a Bully but Incompetent too!

Over a week ago I spent nearly 2 hours leaving 86 LinkedIn groups after they sent me an email stating that they were limiting the groups I could be a member of to 50. See my blog post LinkedIn Just the Neighborhood Bully.

LinkedIn | Just the Neighborhood Bully

I received an email from LinkedIn and it made me mad.

I wrote them back and here is my open letter. The original is at the bottom.

If you want us to leave groups on a mass scale why don’t you make it easy to do so?

LinkedIn | Of-course You Know About LinkedIn

Are You LinkedIn?
I am LinkedIn and I really enjoy using it.

Just in case you haven’t heard of LinkedIn yet, it is like MySpace only for business professionals. You can read my original post from May ’07 when I had only 22,400 in my entire network. Today I am pushing hard on 10 million.

White Hat vs. Black Hat | Link Wars

Putting Pandora Back into the Box.

In this week’s Whiteboard Friday – Link Wars, Rand Fishkin discusses the “war” that happens in the spam game. He takes a look at how Google interprets link manipulation, how spammers combat this, and how webmasters should consider a link either Black Hat or White Hat.

LinkedIn Portland Soiree/Par-tay

David Black came up with an outstanding idea: LinkedIn members in Portland getting together in person for a networking party.

WOW! It was great.

I partied on the patio with Silverhawk (the band) and all the networkers came to me.

@garypool

Heading to Dutch Bros on MLK in Portland for some great coffee. about 1 day ago from Ping.fm
Heading out to the regular mo. BizNet noon meeting at the South Shore Clubhouse, 12221 No. Westshore Drive. Behind the Jantzen Beach Mall. about 1 day ago from Ping.fm
Bing and Yahoo! Conjugate http://ping.fm/4KlD9 about 1 day ago from Ping.fm
Having a wonderful birthday lunch with my beautiful wife at Jakes Crawfish, downtown Portland. about 2 days ago from Ping.fm
Finally back at Best Baguette on Powell. Great sandwiches. Yummm*** about 2 days ago from Ping.fm
As Bing and Yahoo! get ready to climb in bed together what effect this will have on SEO. http://www.seopdx.com/blog/?p=5279 about 3 days ago from API
Men In Black is still a really good movie. It doesnt matter how old it is. about 3 days ago from Ping.fm
From @Sphinn: Exorcist Found to Exorcise Seth Godin from This Blog http://sphinn.com/story/157787 about 4 days ago from Power Twitter
Chargers! That was a real whuppin! Saints look good. Chargers not so good! :-( about 5 days ago from TweetDeck
Same goes for a football game :-( @CHRISVOSS about 5 days ago from TweetDeck
You had better believe it. RT @CHRISVOSS: There are no more hours in a bad day than in a good one! Unknown about 5 days ago from TweetDeck