Posts Tagged ‘Relationships’

3 Cool Kids You Should Stalk This Week # 5 — More Detroit

Happy Monday, kids!  For this week, we’re still moving around the state of Michigan, because there’s lots of cool kids up there that are worth your stalking. This 5th installment of 3 Cool Kids You Should Stalk This Week features a few more cool kids from the D. Remember that you can always go back and catch up on the cool kids you missed from previous weeks as well. Okay? – nate 3 Cool Kids You Should Stalk This Week #4: Detroit Edition Here’s three more cool kids from the D who’s friendships have made an impact on my life, business and online networks. Seriously, you’d be wise to spend some time today stalking, clicking and even sending them a hello on one of their networks listed below. You’ll be glad you did. Audrey Walker Twitter: @techsocialite Site:  TechSocialite.com Other: LinkedIn Stalkers Debrief: Making a good living as a digital strategist and web designer, Audrey also chairs the Girls in Tech Detroit chapter. I’ve never seen anyone navigate a large event with as much class and savvy as this gal. She and Kevin (her boyfriend and a super cool dude) were one of the first people I met in the cool kids crowd from up north. Since that time, we’ve had the chance to run around at events like Blogworld and SXSW partying like the nerds we are. I come to know that if you want to pulse on what’s going on and where the coolest gathering spots are at any event, introduce yourself to Adurey and follow everything she puts out online. Audrey is always in the know. When you stalk, make sure to ask her opinions on what cool tech industry events you should catch for the remainder of this year. Brandon Chesnutt Twitter: @bchesnutt Blog: communityirl.com Other: LinkedIn Stalkers Debrief: Brandon’s my [...]

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HOW TO Grow Your Google Plus Network in 5 Easy Steps

I like putting things in buckets. Not so much the buckets in the literal sense, unless it’s good beer on a hot day and the bucket is located on my patio and filled with ice. That’s a bucket for the win. Nope. I mean buckets in the sense of organization. If you’ve been playing around in Google Plus this week and checking out some of my other posts, you’ll know that in Google’s social network, the buckets are called Circles. Google Plus Circles Power User Control For one of the first times in the history of the age of social networks, users have what appears to be near complete control over their information, what content they see and how the use a news feed. It’s almost like Google’s engineers had a lunch date with Doc Searls and took the advice he gave Facebook to heart. But with power comes great responsibility, and with responsibility comes work. Let me ask you this — how much work have you put into organizing your circles?  Have you been making it a practice to reciprocate when Google Plus folks add you to one of their circles? Or, are you looking at Google Plus differently than the behemoths like Facebook and Twitter that came before it? Have you ticked anyone off because you haven’t added them to a circle yet? Hacking Reciprocity in Google Plus Back to buckets and circles.  As of now, there’s no limit to how many Google Plus Circles you can create. Further more, there’s no limit to the amount of people you can place in those circles. As least as far as we know. With that in mind, the intentions of each circle can be completely customized. With the right organization, you can design specific Google Plus Circles as holding buckets from which you can move users [...]

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Google Plus Will Own the Future of Business Collaboration

We’re now a few weeks in on Google Plus, and some good things are happening. For the most part, email addresses are open and new users are on boarding in droves each day. It seems that while the conversation is still mainly about Google Plus, we’re talking less about what it the social network is, and more about what we plan to do with it. We’re starting to experiment and hack the features. We’ve talked about how to blog on Google Plus and a framework to help us organize our Google Plus Circles. We’ve even made some headway in applying Google Plus Sparks to our content marketing and internet listening practice. We’re approaching the period of enlightenment in the hype cycle. Popularity is easily translated Keep in mind that folks like Brogan, Scobal, and other top rated users are also known major league names in the internet industry. They each have spent years and countless hours building big followings across the Interwebz. Their popularity has been generated as a result of their widely-read blogs, and their previous use of things like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and all the other networks that pre-dated Google’s win with this new social network. Cool kids like you and I always give our attention to them first, because we trust their influence as it’s benefited us in the past. Their popularity comes from years sharing free ideas, pages of content and personalized attention. And, that popularity is easily translated from one medium to another. But, make no mistake — Google Plus is still different But, I think Google Plus is different. From what I can see, G+’s purpose is not to be an epicenter of socialization or popularity contests. I don’t even see it as the marketing nirvanas we worship in Twitter and Facebook. Sorry Ford, but I think you [...]

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