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Looking forward to winning!!! :-)

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Great post. It's funny because its true. I've gone through phases of wanting to do very little with social media to now finally coming back again. Its a matter of balance - like anything else.

Have you had a response to this yet?

Wow a very moving video in many respects. Thanks for openly sharing such a special moment in your life. And you're right the vastness of the trip makes it impossible to really convey the place it has in your heart. Can't wait for the next in the series! Love your video work by the way.

I think social media belongs with sales (every sales peson should be out there participating - if it makes sense to them), and within PR. Not sure about the marketing and IT department gettting involved.

My mom was fanatical about Kabhi Kabhi & Silsila back in the day. As little kids we heard those songs in our house - it seemed every day. Sometimes I'll hear one of these songs in a restaurant and will literally freeze - thinking about my mom! :-) What to say about Amitabh Bachchan the heros of these movies?????? I personally think Amitabh Bacchan is the best actor ever - in any category, across any country. One little fact, my sister is named after his wife - since my dear mother also loved them both in Abimaan! :-)

Congrats.

Interesting slideshow. I think the struggle for me has been to find the right style which suits my personality and goals. Sometimes I'm wanting to blog a certain way when that really doesn't suit me.

I have to agree with you here. I went on a facebook friend frenzy - and then started to realize that I didn't want to open my life up to some of the "friends" I had made. I decided then that LinkedIn would be the place for professional contacts and Facebook would be for friends/family types - those I hang out with and have fun with etc. It's made it a whole lot more interesting for me that way.

So, I'm not sure Facebook Connect is something I want for myself. It could work for others who use Facebook differently.

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D and E seem like the best fit - I like D. For no other reason but the fact it looks like my glasses and appears to be lighter. I don't like heavy glasses.

Enjoy the conference. Looking forward to the responses you get and the questions people ask!

As the reiging champ of creating boring powerpoint slides - I specialize in them - I must say I really enjoyed your view here. The problem is it takes so much time getting it right - that it almost feels like you should be focusing on the content. I think it helps to do the design only after you're done with the content part.

Scott,

The perception seems to be that social media is cheap with no real cost. Which can be true in the sense that it costs nothing to set up a Twitter account. However, as you correctly point out the labor cost is where the investment comes in. I know there is a chart floating around on Flickr which gives an approximate estimate of how much time one needs to spend to have a good Social presence and to receive the results you desire. In some cases you're looking at upwards of 20 hours/week!

Jason,

Hope your presentation went well. I just got done doing a similar presentation here in Phoenix. I used three case studies to make the point of what a good social media strategy looks like. I'd be interested in sharing some of the case studies. I'll email you my ideas and see what you think.

Fantastic post. The issue is also with the fact that companies seem to understand the "media" part but not the "social" part. People talk to people,interact with people. No one wants to have a conversation with a PR peice - for the same reason people don't like 800 numbers with 10 options!

Hi Lisa,

Great stuff here. My only concern, which I presume most marketers would have as well, is regarding the metrics used to determine the success of these types of programs.

Widgets can be a great way to connect with your custoemrs, but I can't imagine a great value for them unless they're attached to some kind of offline reward. For example the Southwest Ding widget is valuable becuase you can actually save money on flights by using it. So, my question is, are clorox customers gaining anything by doing this (in real life) - how about Clorox itself? Are you privy to any numbers? Analytics perhaps.

For Blogs, I can see the value of being a Q&A section - taking the burden off of your customer support staff. Your suggestions are very insightful by the way.

It seems like Clorox is trying to do something, and it appears to be catching on.

As I said,any follow up on this with lots of numbers to support value would be great!

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Blogging is like joining the gym - I know so many people who have started blogs becuase they liked the concept. Then they abandon the effort because they lose interest. A lot of the people in my circle who started blogs did so to share personal stories, pictures, videos and links. Now all of that is possible on a social networking site like Facebook. I see the very same people more active there - they write stuff about things they're thinking (blog post) and post videos, share picture etc.

So, in essence, I think blogging will see a decline among the masses. It will shift to become more of a domain subject matter experts, category enthusiasts and such folks. The vast majority who joined do the same thing but on social networking sites - much easier to do and you have a ready audience - your friends.

Well, you can't fault them - they're trying and attempting to gain some traction. Not all venues are going to work, but I commend them for giving it a shot.

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I think it's completely fair that someone who doesn't blog give bloggers some constructive criticism. While I will refrain from saying anything until I read the book - if I do that is - I do tire of the folks who say "today's media would hammer never allow us to produce another Lincoln" or something of that sort. First of all I go back to Harry Truman's comment "if you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen". Second of all if you demonstrate competence, straightforwardness and a sincere desire to be a public servant - I just can't imagine how any blogger could ever derail your plans. Seriously.

Thanks for this information. I'll be using it for sure. For one thing Flickr has become too "corporate" - I can't get a response back from them on any questions I ask and it's counterproductive in my mind that they don't allow photo contests. YouTube wants you to go at it like crazy and Flickr is snotty about it - I don't get it.

So, for the clients I'm working with who want to do photo contests Photrade will be my recommendation.

Wordpress is a fantastic solution for any blogger - for the reasons you outline above. It has traditionally struggled on the "user friendly" part - and Typepad has been hammering them on it, but with the improvements they've made recently Wordpress is defiantly better.

I like Wordpress for reasons #4 and #5 above. The vibrant user community makes it easy to solve problems on your own if you have some basic knowledge of HTML and PHP (like myself) and the unlimited customization feature means you can make any changes you'd like and not have to rely on template limitations etc. You can be you on Wordpress.

Congratulations guys. I am a regular reader - mostly on an aggregator - but I love your content.

Here's to many more 100 days!

This is a great plug in. It works well on my site. Not to be picky, but the graphics need to be improved a bit. Looks kind of clunky in my opinion. Functionally, it's fantastic.

Sometimes in the middle of worshiping Google we forget some of the missed opportunities. You've done a great job pointing these out.

Gmail is indeed a very cool service. Why they kept it as invitation only is a mystery. I would think that most of the users came on due to the large space they offered - once that gap closed there was really no reason to jump. For a lot of people switching e-mail after a few years is hard to do. I still maintain my hotmail account - which many many of my contacts still use to contact me.

I tested out Lively and thought it was pretty lame to be honest with you. It's so clunky and hard to use - you can tell it's in alpha stages. Why they released it now before more advances I have no idea.