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• Observing / listening in others’ social media outlets
• Participating in others’ outlets through commenting, guest blogging, etc.
• Creating content and being active within your own outlets

Ever since Todd shared that concept in early 2009, his social media productivity strategy has been front and center in my mind (and ensconced in my social media strategy presentations). The truth is I rarely come close to this balanced approach since creating Brainzooming content definitely represents the majority of my time.

One way of improving on your time allocation is by investing your effort in activities which contribute to more than one of these categories.

Based on some approaches I’ve tried, here are 13 strategies to maximize the efficiency of your time investment in social media:

1. Use tweets with your original content as input to create a blog post. For example, this blog post on 5 personal strategies started as a series of individual tweets.

2. Comment on another blog and use the comment as the basis for an original post on your blog.

3. Do a post comprised of comments (or links) other people have shared on Twitter you’ve found valuable.

4. Incorporate Twitter-based responses you’ve received from others on your content / ideas / tweets into a blog post.

5. Write a post inviting guest posts for your blog, then tweet links to your invitation post to solicit guest bloggers.

6. When you come across someone interested in topics related to your blog, ask them to do a guest blogpost (and refer them back to the post in #5).

7. If you write a guest post for another site, do a complementary post on your blog pointing your followers to it.

8. Participate in Twitter-based chats on topics of interest (#TChat – Tues at 8 pm ET, #Innochat – Thu at 12 noon ET, #Ideachat – Monthly, 2nd Saturday at 9 am ET) and use your comments during the chat as the basisfor a blog post.

9. Create your own Twitter chat linked to your blog topic to benefit your audience.

10. Use answers you’ve created for LinkedIn Q&A or other discussion groups as starters for blog posts.

11. Write a response article to a blog post you’ve come across via Twitter, RSS feeds, etc.

12. Use what people on Facebook, Twitter, or other networks are talking about as the inspiration for a post. Be sure to include links to the original conversation, including letting the people you’re referencing know about it so they can promote it within their networks.

13. Answers to reader questions can be reformatted into blog posts. This post was originally an email response to a reader’s question about how to strengthen his social media participation without taking too much time from necessary business development activities!

What are you doing to maximize your social media productivity? – Mike Brown

The Brainzooming Group helps make smart organizations more successful by rapidly expanding their strategic options and creating innovative plans they can efficiently implement.

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A couple of tips: holding down your mouse over an image will let you share that image instead of a link to the whole page. Also, if you share something by mistake, or accidentally pick the wrong network, you can cancel by hitting escape.

Check out the demo video of Cortex below to have your mind blown by how quick and slick sharing on the web can be.

Exercise your existing connections to provide you with a gateway to other networks. A new entrant can take advantage of the existing circle of friends and relatives to get you the opening you are looking for. An existing, yet to be established person can widen up his area of horizon by including every prevailing professional and personal associations to reach out to the people informing them of your line of business. Word-of-mouth and organic marketing are the top-ranking tools for marketing your website.

Another crucial element that can define the hit or miss of your web page is the domain name. The domain name picked by you has to be linked to the content in the site, simple, possess high capacity for recollection and above all, competent to take you to the higher ranking of the search engines. With numerous names already being registered, getting the domain name is not as simple as it is thought to be. It is, therefore, crucial to get in your name all the significant names related to one’s line of activity registered to reduce the impact of competition over the use of the relevant keywords.

The immense appreciation and active participation of the members in the various social networking sites have resulted in them turning out to be a potent tool for marketing the website. For enhancing its capability, ensure that the contents in the social networking site conform to the major highlights of your web page, making it captivating to capture attention and generate positive response.

Take active participation in the various forums and discussions contributing well-rounded arguments to support your case. Substantiating your points with key evidence will make you an authority gaining more goodwill and respect from counterparts, creating more followers.

Press releases are another approach taken to market the website. Being more specific on the products and types of services extended provide them with a better advantage over the rest of the marketing techniques. However, care should be taken to ensure that the contents have less promotional content and more of technical knowledge for better outcome.

To conclude, gather information on the various marketing tools from the relevant sources and include them into your website for greater traffic inflow.

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The announcement highlights a number of partnerships with location-based services like Gowalla,Localeze, OpenTable and TomTom, among others, that Twitter developer advocate Matt Harris says will “serve as a foundation for a number of exciting features we have planned to help users find what’s new in their area and around the world.”

Twitter began offering the ability to tag Tweets with specific places last June, including Gowalla andFoursquare integration, but until now developers had to search for tweets in relation to places according to the correct service, not the place itself. Now, according to the documentation, Twitter supports both Twitter place IDs and IDs from partner providers. In this week’s announcement, Harris writes:

To make it easy for you to use the large data set, we’re using an index that combines the IDs across different partners into one. This means you can use the IDs from your preferred partner’s dataset when using Twitter Search to find Tweets about a specific place.

In this way, Twitter can act as a connector of services – a one-stop shop for place data. You can check in with Gowalla and then have that place data easily accessible for use with another service as if you had checked in with Twitter itself. By making its database of places relational, Twitter is positioning itself in much the same way Facebook has with its Places product.

Mick Johnson, co-founder of Whereoscope, told us that he saw this as a move to help attract developers.

“Twitter is fighting the place database battle by giving app developers a ‘zero-cost’ way to adopt,” said Johnson. “If you’re Gowalla, you get all of Twitter’s data while retaining the option to switch out, because you’re still using the same ID. Conversely if you want to integrate with Facebook, you don’t have a way out afterwards.”

Basically, Twitter is doing the work of relating different places on its service, so location services don’t have to commit to using its places IDs and risk alienating itself with other services. Currently, Twitter has announced partnerships with 13 companies, giving developers the ability to search by their place IDs in addition to Twitter’s own IDs.

Will a move like this be enough for developers of location-based services? Or will the sheer size and breadth of Facebook’s social graph overpower any ease-of-adoption on Twitter’s end? Let us know what you think in the comments.

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Vă puteţi imagina viaţă fără internet? Asta ar însemna să te duci la muncă timp de 8-10 ore după care ajungând acasă, te uiţi la televizor. Ar trebui să ne culcăm devreme pentru că, nu-i aşa?, nu mai putem pierde nopţile pe internet… Nu tu e-mail, facebook, twitter, ştiri online, messenger, etc.  Ce viaţă monotonă ar fii!!!…

Chiar aşa mult depindem de internet? Adevărul e undeva la mijloc: depinde de vârstă, ocupaţie, mediul în care trăim.

Internet World Stats ne creditează, la nivelul anului 2010,  cu un procent de 35,5% al românilor cu acces la internet (7,8 milioane), raportat la o populaţie de 22 milioane. Părerea mea e că acest procent nu reflectă realitatea pentru ar trebui să se pornească de la o cifră de 18 milioane, restul fiind plecaţi peste graniţă, ajungând astfel la un procent de 43%. Alt aspect interesant este şi faptul că sunt luate în calcul gospodăriile ce beneficiază de conexiune internet. Dacă luam în considerare faptul că mulţi romani au acces la internet doar la locul de muncă, cred că ne apropiem binişor de 50%.

În ultimul raport scos de Akamai pentru primul trimestru din 2010, în ceea ce priveşte vitezele medii pentru conexiunile în bandă largă Romania ocupă un onorabil loc 3, după Corea de Sud şi Japonia.

Romania are 3 oraşe care intră în top 100 oraşe cu cea mai mare viteză medie la conexiune, plasându-se pe locul 5 în lume, după Japonia, Corea de Sud, SUA şi Olanda. Oraşele româneşti sunt în ordinea vitezei medii Constanţa, Timişoara, Iaşi.

Pentru vitezele maxime ale conexiunilor, România are 4 oraşe în top 100 şi ocupă locul 4, după Japonia, SUA, Corea de Sud. În top, pe langă Constanţa, Timişoara, Iaşi, intră şi Bucureştiul.

Ca sursă de atacuri informatice, România se plasează pe locul 8, în scădere faţă de alţi ani, pe primele locuri fiind Rusia, SUA, China, Taiwan, Brazilia, Italia, Germania.

Cea mai bună infrastructura pentru internet o are Constanţa, atât în ceea ce priveşte viteza medie a conexiunilor (locul 61 mondial cu 7623 Kbps) cât şi media vitezelor maxime (locul 13 mondial cu 34133 Kbps).

Anual, conexiunile în banda largă cresc cu aproximativ  25%, având una din cele mai mari rate de creştere din lume.

Avem o puternică infrastructură internet însă aceasta vine cu un cost, tarifele de transfer şi tranzitare în internet fiind relative mari (costul aferent unei benzi de 1Mbps este undeva la 10$/luna faţă de Japonia cu 0.27$/luna). Acestea s-ar explica prin faptul că atât timp cât internetul la noi este orientat predominant spre consumul domestic şi consumatorii sunt dispuşi să plătească, ISP-iştii nu işi bat capul cu optimizarea rutelor prin peering.

Toate acestea ne conduc la concluzia că stăm foarte bine la viteză şi satisfăcător la procentul celor care au acces la internet.

Prin urmare, pot românii să-şi dezvolte afacerile pe internet?

Sunt optimist în această privinţă. CÂT dar mai ales CUM puteţi citi în următorele “episoade”.

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