Looking for information on the SITS Spring Into Action Photo Challenge? Click here.Social networking can be completely overwhelming. I was at Twitter holdout myself for a long time. But once I dove in? I fell in love.
My two favorite social networking sites are Twitter and Facebook. For me they serve very different purposes. Here are the basics:
The use of hashtags and search features are genius and it makes it so easy to connect with others on topics of interest. It is also so simple and fun to jump in on conversations and promote your blog and posts. The downside to this is that it goes fast. Really fast. The more people you follow the faster the tweets fly and it can be easy to fall behind or get overwhelmed.
Because Twitter goes so fast, you can promote the same post throughout the day without feeling like you are spamming your followers. Promoting can be asking a question and leaving your link, tweeting the title of the post with a link, etc.
Everyone is on Facebook. Well, everyone except my husband, which makes no sense because he has a Twitter account, but I digress. Everyone is on Facebook. Besides having your own personal account, in a few steps you can also create a Fan Page. Sharing a post on Facebook with your fans/friends is as easy as one click.
When promoting posts on Facebook, I like to do the during breakfast/morning coffee share, the lunch time share and the end of the day share. Those seem to be the highest traffic volume times and the way to get the most exposure.
What are your social networking tips?
Use networked blogs!! I love it b/c it auto posts to facebook and twitter! Love it.
ReplyDeleteThat's basically my share schedule too! What would we do without social media? : )
ReplyDeleteI was recently hacked and my FB account was taken over and my blogs were deleted. It took me several weeks to get things together enough to put myself back online, and it was a weird feeling to be so unconnected during that time. What WOULD we do without social networking??
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