Top 10 Social Networking Things to Do

www.sfgate.com Top 10 Social Networking Things to Do 1.Figure out your name. (I’m Zennie Abraham, Zenophon Abraham and Zennie62) There’s a habit of using different and weird names by one person on different networks. If you want to get a job, that’s a bad practice. It’s better to have one name or set of related names; for all practical purposes that name set serves as the foundation of your personal brand, or who you are. It’s also easier to find in a search, rather than your identity spread chaotically on the Internet. 2.What do you want to get out of this? (Business? pleasure? Information? If you’re in the business of pleasure that’s another story. You also need to ask yourself how you feel about having “you” out there as the negatives are the possibility of being stalked, but that written the positives far overwhelm that negative and we can talk about how to stop and expose stalkers online later.) 3.Figure out your title: CEO? Producer? Party Animal? 4.Develop an email list. Remember, email is still a form of social networking. 5.Find a photo you’re proud of and nothing with you wearing a gorilla suit. (It does work for some but I don’t recommend it.) 6.Business? a.Join Linkedin b.Join Ryze (Great small business membership base in the Bay Area.) c.Join Plaxo d.Join Facebook and turn off the relationship notifications. (We don’t need know that you’re dating Sven Nordgarden.) 7.Pleasure? a.Join MySpace b.Join Facebook c.Join FriendFeed 8.Information? a.Join FriendFeed b …