Which Social Media is right for the Details Diva?

I am a member of Ryze and many members have used LinkedIn for awhile. I like the thought of LinkedIn, it can connect those in your community and it is ONLY business oriented.

I swore up and down I’d NEVER have a MySpace or FaceBook blog. Weren’t they mostly for teenagers and young adults?
In my mind, the different Facebook pages I looked at, their owners seemed to indiscriminately add “Friends”.
But now that FaceBook is becoming mainstream, do I have to rethink this?

Now Twitter is all the rage…since I’m NOT and NEVER will be a text-er  I cannot see myself using this.  Unless it is to update others in my community of goings-on. But I would rather do that through email.

• *Special Note**

Back in 1998 or so,my mother would send me letters from Florida about protecting myself on the ‘Net.  Being tech-savvy I already knew this but “Hey….who was I to rain on her parade?”

On March 20, she called up and said she saw on the Today show that I should put my resume on FaceBook.   I was horrified, I certainly couldn’t put one out there with my personal information.  I’m still leery about doing it, but maybe, just maybe.

Which Social Media do you use? Take my Poll here

Nonprofit Fundraising in a Bad Economy

This is something I thought I’d share…what can we do in our communities?

Nonprofit Fundraising in a Bad Economy  by David Teten at thevirtualhandshake.com/blog

I had lunch yesterday with the founder and CEO of a successful, technology-savvy nonprofit. Unsurprisingly, he was very concerned about reaching his fundraising goals for 2009 (and thereafter). We brainstormed about ways that some of the concepts in The Virtual Handshake could be used to help in his situation.

One of his challenges is that donors need a trigger event to give money. Historically, a trigger event might be an entrepreneur who sold his company and received a large payout, or a Wall Street executive who received a large annual bonus. However, in this economic environment, what are trigger events?

Read more here   http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog 3/29/09

Most of my Ryze.com networks are no longer active!!!

I was truly pleased that Scott Allen  is still around.  I first found Scott as an Author on About.com where I followed him to Ryze.com.  He truly gave some great advice and had thought provoking articles.   You can find Scott also at VirtualHandshake.com  He has a book with the same name co-written by him. I plan to add him to my blogroll once I figure out how to do that.  LOL

Does this mean that everyone is moving to LinkedIn, FaceBook and/or Twitter?? Please respond to what types of social media you are using…..and why.

What Rush Limbaugh Knows About Blogging

Andy Wibbels, an online associate of mine wrote this post and it is powerful one for bloggers and/or writers who might be blocked.   He and I both can’t stand Rush, but he does give give the ol blowhard praise.

Read what Andy said, it is very thought provoking

Also find Andy’s books here  Including Blog Wild!!!    http://andywibbels.com/books/

and his blog here AndyWibbels.com.

The Cult of Done Manifesto

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

Twitter & Google: What War of Words?

The Internet was all a-Twitter yesterday about some comments that Google’s Eric Schmidt made about Twitter. The takeaway from some observers was that Schmidt slagged Twitter by calling it a kind of “poor man’s email.” Then today in an AdAge story, Todd Chaffee, a new Twitter venture funder, seems to be claiming ground over Google.

Click here to read the rest March 4th entry

Why follow someone on Twitter?

Adam Kmiec enumerates what he looks for in a Tweet, and why he decides to follow certain people.I’ll add my own criteria. Like Adam, I follow people who link to interesting content. They’re like scouts. I also like humor and on-the-ground reporting. (I enjoyed Ana Marie Cox on the campaign trail, and now I see her following has ballooned to 148,000.)

When I check someone’s page and see a lot of @ replies, I tend not to follow, because they seem to be tied up in conversations that don’t involve me. No criticism involved. It’s just a matter of what you want in the mix.

.Read the full post here written by  Stephen Baker

Suggested Reading

Books

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 

Blogs

Ducttapemarketing.com   Not necessarily for Non-Profits but gives great tips.

Top 10 Small Business Websites

http://www.allbusiness.com Business advice  and 500 forms & business  agreements.   **Your lawyer should go over these forms and tweak them for YOUR Business or Non-Profit.**

http://www.nolo.com Legal advice and forms written by the experts.  There is a special section on Non-Profits.  **Your lawyer should go over these forms and tweak them for YOUR business or Non-Profit.**

http://www.ryze.com Social Networking site for business owners.  **Not necessarily for Non-Profits.**

http://irs.gov They have a special section for Non-Profits.

http://www.sba.gov Small Business Association

http://www.download.com Download software applications that can help your business run smoothly.  * I will add my personal favorites at another time. *

http://cnet.com Thinking about buying a certain electronic item?  You can find reviews by the Cnet editors on many of them.

http://daveramsey.com Dave gives great financial advice for small business and personal use.

http://www.suzeorman.com Suze is my hero, her site offers downloadable Wills, Revocable Trusts, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and Financial Power of Attorney.  She also has a special section for empowering Women to plan for their financial future.

http://danpink.com I read Dan’s first book “Free Agent Nation”  when I was planning my escape from “Corporate Hell”.  His 2nd book ” A Whole New Mind” is now being touted by Oprah Winfrey.   In this book, he details that jobs will be in demand are those that employ empathy and  artistic sensibilites.  WNM has been on the bestseller list of NY Times, Business Week, Wall St. Journal  and Washington Post.

Read the Publishers Weekly and Booklist Rewiews here

http://www.amazon.com/Whole-New-Mind-Right-Brainers-Future/dp/1594481717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236755882&sr=1-1

*** DetailsDiva.com recommends these  sites but holds no personal responsibility for the information held within***

Let me know of your favorite business websites and how you use it and  I will add it to the bigger list to come.

Self Help for Startups

The following article talks about how local entrepreneurs are having after-hours meetings.  This time is used for networking, information sharing and giving their one minute speech.

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