This Week in Social Media

Noteful Nuggets From This Past Week

As usual, it was a busy week in the social media space. In case you were glued to Facebook Observer and did not get a chance to read up on what was going outside of Facebook here are some great social media posts from the past week.

• Personal Branding and Social Media - Social media is a great way to build your personal brand, if you do it the right way. Chris shows you how you can easily reinforce your personal brand in five easy steps. If I had to add one more easy, yet sorely under-used tactic, it would simply be to participate! Don’t be a wallflower, start participating in forums, blogs, wiki’s and don’t be afraid to send someone you want to know and email.
• Social Media Warnings - Don’t forget that someone might be watching your every move on a MySpace, Facebook and the like. Kristina tells the tale of an employer uses MySpace and Facebook as a research tool on prospective employees. Social networks are meant to be fun, but remember that what you do, say and expose might come back to bite you.
• eBay Adds Social Networking - “Social commerce” as I call it is the next big thing for Internet retailers. eBay’s Neighborhoods are a great example of what companies can do to foster social interaction in hopes of increasing consumer interaction that will result in not just and increase in sales, but loyalty. After all if your site is more then just a purchase destination, it is more then likely to be trafficked more often.
• Is Techmeme Overrated? - I tend to agree that getting your site on Techmeme does not result in the same sort of traffic spikes that getting to the front page of Digg or a strong Stumbleupon will give you, but Techmeme is the best site to keep in touch with what is going on in the tech sector. The real question here is, Are you obsessed with their new leaderboard?
• Google Making Big Moves In Social Media - It is not a shocker that Google is taking a hard look at social networking. After all, it is the hottest topic in the tech sector right now. But I don’t really care. Why? because besides search, everything else that Google has done has either sucked or not been a major threat to a major competitor. I bet the Google guys were at the Graphing Social conference just to get a few days of the ‘plex.

Well, that is it for the first round up. But, I’ll tell you what, if you have a story that you think is worth mentioning, share it with all of us by posting it below in the comments!

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