Web Business by Ken Burbary

Social media thoughts of the day

To be an effective community professional, you need to walk the talk and use the tools

Google is not a search engine, it’s a reputation tracker

Sean scored high on search engine results for Microsoft Support after a bad story was on Digg.com

Admits there are many buzzwords, yet many forget to look at the bigger picture

Rather than focusing on the Techcrunch/Scoble “Shiny Diamond” to develop a social media strategy

The 5 P’s of Social Media: People, Places, Process, Platform, Patterns

Process is potentially the most important P –but often overlooked

There are more smarter people about your product outside of your company

It’s good and horrible news that it’s easy to publish. Many fractures due to lack of strategy.

Google is the enemy of brand loyalty, if I can find the answer to a question not on your corporate property

Most advocates and influencers are not
helping to help a brand, they are helping other users.

“Pay it forward” a good model and metaphor how a community works

Participation:

Impacts to busienss: Customer Service and Support, Sales and Marketing, Innovation and Product Development

You can’t own the message and the audience is going to change it on their own

Word of Mouth has been a key driver why people buy what they buy, now with access to information through social tools greatly impacts this

Engagement is about brand inclusion, making sure people have their voiced involved

We’ve all seen ugly babies but never had one. We’ve strong attraction to our own products. Uses a MS open source as a case study

Beta is not early enough to get your community involved

If you want raving fans, get affinity, talks about Harley Davidson

Influencer Framework in Web 1.0: Envision and develop, test and release, and sell and support

Suggests that social aspect of employees were only in sell and support aspect, not other areas

Sean had an executive champion, Steve Ballmer

Social graph: as a business strategy we should think about it as\

Notes from SAP Salon: Social Media and Online Communities

The POST method to Social Media Strategy

Twitter Popularity

Do you Twitter? If you’re reading this blog, you probably know all about Twitter. Even though I registered a Twitter account some time ago, I’ve more recently become an active user. I’m enjoying the benefits of keeping up with the happenings of key people, both professionally and personally, but I’m also having difficulty getting other friends to join and use the service. Despite my own personal experiences, Twitter appears to be growing the user base quickly. As reported on over at the Twitter Facts blog, the data shows just that, Twitter.com is rapidly approaching 1 million users.

So far my twittering is limited only to the indivudals in my social circle that are as heavily involved in interactive and the web as I am. I just haven’t found the sweet spot yet where Twitter is reaching the general masses (the ones not online the majority of their waking hours) among my social circle.

Question of the day: Who among your social circle uses Twitter? Professional contacts? Friends? Family?