social networking
This page is dedicated to Social Networking, a phenomenon with increasing significance. Not only for private use, but Social Networking can change a lot for your business as well! Think about your business reputation, attention for your web site or web shop, expanding your potential business market or the additional reach for spreading information or advertising! In December 2008 I opened a Twitter account (@daepunt) and I’ve been busy linking anything to everything ever since. An example: all posts on my web log automatically get tweeted to Twitter, as well as Facebook, Hyves, LinkedIn, Plaxo and MySpace. As a result the number of visitors on my web log has increased by 1,800%. Think about what this could mean to your company and to your business! I experiment with new technology on a daily basis and I try to avoid double entry by clever use of modern tools. Does your company not have a Twitter account yet? Are your collegues or employees not on LinkedIn yet? Haven’t you yet registered your company as a Company on LinkedIn? Think about the number of people you could reach if you took care of your presence on these social networks and what a big difference this could mean in terms of turnover and profit. You might want to give it a try, because all the networks mentioned above are free of charge!
For your convenience I made a special Tag, that I use to mark all posts on Social Networking. If you click on the link mentioned below, you’ll get access to my RSS feed that you can use to spice up your own web site or keep yourself informed about the latest developments on Social Networking. Don’t miss it! And remember: This is all “recycled” information. Meaning: Apart from the time and effort I spend on writing my posts and initial configuration, getting this information out doesn’t require any additional work at all. Respond to this page or contact me of you can use my help optimizing your information or exploring new potential markets. Last, but not least: It is a personal challenge for me to link all these social networks together, but understand that within a few years from now, it won’t be just about short messages anymore, but about exchanging information between your CRM system, the ERP and financial software, that will require the exact same technology. Keep a close watch on Social Networking!
Click here for my RSS feed on Social Networking and explore the features
EDIT: Dutch radio channel @BNR_Nieuwsradio uses LinkedIn to get “BNR Friends – you can be one, too!”. Check http://www.bnr.nl/vriend for more information (in Dutch). Clever!
NOS allows you to place their TV-video on Hyves. Click here for an example.
de Volkskrant is also on Twitter. Get this: If you click a link and you check the address bar, you’ll see they tag all Twitter traffic as RSS traffic. That’s interesting, because those two are not the same thing…
