Planting, Growing and Evaluating Your Social Media Network

“Seed Selection and Planting”

Blogs“I’ve got something to say…”

WordPress www.wordpress.com– Most flexible

Blogger www.blogger.com– Best for beginners

TypePad www.typepad.com– Many larger IT benefits

Microblogs“A thought just occurred to me…”

Twitter www.twitter.com– 26 million monthly users– 80 million estimated

monthly visitors (EMV)– Other sources cite over

25 million “tweets” per day

Twitter Apps“How do you keep track of all these Twitter feeds?”

Tweetdeck www.tweetdeck.com– Desktop– iPhone

Seesmicwww.seesmic.com– Desktop, – iPhone, BlackBerry

Uber Twitterwww.ubertwitter.com– iPhone, BlackBerry

“Old School” Social Networking“So what’s been goin’ on?”

Facebook www.facebook.com– 3.1 billion EMV– 500 million active users,

roughly half of whom log in daily

– Personal profiles– “Professional” pages

But what about…?

MySpace www.myspace.com– Lost over 10 million

users since January 2010

Gather www.gather.com– Rallied briefly in 2010– Never has been strong

ProfessionalFacebook for business people… sort of.

Linked In www.linkedin.com– 62.7 million EMV– Free and Fee-based

options– Many people under-

estimate its potential

Social Bookmarking“You’ve really got to read this!”

Digg www.digg.com– 45 million EMV

Reddit www.reddit.com– 16.5 million EMV

StumbleUponwww.stumbleupon.com– 16.5 million EMV

del.icio.us www.delicious.com– 5.5 million EMV

Photo Sharing Hey, check out this picture I took!”

Flicker www.flickr.com– 79 million EMV– Also has video sharing

capabilities

Photobucket www.photobucket.com– 55 million EMV

Picasa www.picasa.google.com– Monthly visitors: ???

Video SharingBecause just about all digital cameras record video now as well.

Youtube www.youtube.com– 175 million EMV

Daily Motion www.dailymotion.com– 13.4 million EMV

Metacafe www.metacafe.com– 11.7 million EMV

Location Based Networking“I’m here. Where are you?”

Foursquarewww.foursquare.com– Network + game– Great for marketing

locations or large brands

Schmapwww.schmap.com– Network + tool– Geotweet app for

iPhone

Places You Can Find Me

From Under My Hatwww.jriutta.com

Facebookwww.facebook.com/fromundermyhat

Twitterwww.twitter.com/fromundermyhator in “twitterese:”@fromundermyhat

The Well-read Naturalistwww.wellreadnaturalist.com

Facebookwww.facebook.com/wellreadnaturalist

Twitterwww.twitter.com/wellreadnator in “twitterese:”@wellreadnat

Linked Inwww.linkedin.com/in/johnriutta

Flickrwww.flickr.com/photos/bornagainbirdwatcher

Place You Can Find Notes to this Presentation

www.jriutta.comCategory: Travel & Adventures

GWA 2010