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

Most of my Ryze.com networks are no longer active!!!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

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