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Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Darin "Doc" Berntson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:43:24 -0000

Great slide show Danny!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Darin "Doc" Berntson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:43:24 -0000

Great slide show Danny!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:37:59 -0000

Cheers Jackie, glad you enjoyed. It&#39s one of my pet peeves, the amount of "why" as opposed to the "how". Something I&#39m looking to share more of in the coming weeks and months - stay tuned! :)

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Jackie Adkins — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:40 -0000

Danny, great slide deck. It&#39s not often that people go past just talking about the "theory" and concepts behind something and actually provide us with actionable steps we can take. Very simple, yet very effective tips on building our social media map! Good stuff, man!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

JeffHurt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:26:03 -0000

Wow. Simplicity at its best for understanding. You&#39ve given us some very practical and relevant steps to follow. This is a winner for sure.

Thanks Danny!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

SS — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:54:03 -0000

This is excellent, Danny. I&#39ll definitely use this as I think through my upcoming strategies.

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:37:59 -0000

Cheers Jackie, glad you enjoyed. It's one of my pet peeves, the amount of "why" as opposed to the "how". Something I'm looking to share more of in the coming weeks and months - stay tuned! :)

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Jackie Adkins — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:09:40 -0000

Danny, great slide deck. It's not often that people go past just talking about the "theory" and concepts behind something and actually provide us with actionable steps we can take. Very simple, yet very effective tips on building our social media map! Good stuff, man!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

JeffHurt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:26:03 -0000

Wow. Simplicity at its best for understanding. You've given us some very practical and relevant steps to follow. This is a winner for sure.

Thanks Danny!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Shani Sammons — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:54:03 -0000

This is excellent, Danny. I'll definitely use this as I think through my upcoming strategies.

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:40:22 -0000

It&#39s funny how often Facebook is overlooked; I think a lot of companies feel that it&#39s "just a place where friends hang out." But guess what - these friends still need to be someone&#39s customer. If you can see that they&#39re talking about a product or service that&#39s relevant to you - and that they&#39ve set up a group just to do that - well, I think the answer&#39s pretty clear that there&#39s a world of opportunity there!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

DanaLookadoo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:32:02 -0000

You have me motivated to create a new social keyword research spreadsheet. I&#39ve been adding columns to my typical "search queries" sheet for social search. I&#39m excited and inspired by your strategy map! Admittedly, I often overlook searching on Facebook (a duh moment) and appreciate the tip and the actionable takeaways!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Michael Schechter — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:24:45 -0000

Best instant action steps after determining your keywords that I&#39ve seen yet. Nicely done!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:18:34 -0000

Cheers Dana.

It all starts with the keywords (offline as well - why do you think infomercials use them liberally throughout an ad?) :)

All great tools you mention there - there are so many that to list them all could take a while (not to mention filling up a screen pretty quickly!) :)

The great thing about them is that they all offer some use to someone, so what you or I might find useful, someone else may find less so. And, obviously, vice versa. Knowing how (and why) to use them, though - that&#39s the starter for us all.

Cheers for stopping by and sharing your lists, appreciated!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

DanaLookadoo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:12:51 -0000

Glad to see someone presenting a map based on keywords! You gave us some great ideas! Nice!

Wanted to mention a couple more free tools I use for social keyword research:
topsy.com
oneriot.com
surchur.com

Add Technorati tags to that.

Bookmarking & referencing this again!!!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:52:04 -0000

I&#39ll swap you for a Headway theme. Oh... wait a minute... ;-)

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

grantgriffiths — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:51:08 -0000

This is with a doubt one of the best explanation of using social media for a business. I plan to adopt it to other types of business. Way to go Danny!!!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:13:43 -0000

Thanks Michael, really appreciate that bud, especially coming from someone who shares lessons like you do. I&#39m liking the PowerPoint to Slideshare option to, so I may just try and throw some more nice pics together soon :)

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

remarkablogger — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:11:19 -0000

Best step-by-step I&#39ve ever seen on how to really "listen," which everyone SAYS to do but never really explains how or even what that really means.

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:11:00 -0000

Hey, you remembered! :)

Cheers Donna, and if my design skills were up to any kind of scratch it would have taken me a lot less to put together as well. One of the reasons I&#39ll never shout at a creative again ;-)

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

donnalehman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:08:33 -0000

Very nice diagram. Not as simple as you made it look, which is the value. Thanks for the present!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Lee Stacey — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:01:07 -0000

Pretty good stuff @DannyBrown :)

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

Danny Brown — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:40:22 -0000

It's funny how often Facebook is overlooked; I think a lot of companies feel that it's "just a place where friends hang out." But guess what - these friends still need to be someone's customer. If you can see that they're talking about a product or service that's relevant to you - and that they've set up a group just to do that - well, I think the answer's pretty clear that there's a world of opportunity there!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

DanaLookadoo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:32:02 -0000

You have me motivated to create a new social keyword research spreadsheet. I've been adding columns to my typical "search queries" sheet for social search. I'm excited and inspired by your strategy map! Admittedly, I often overlook searching on Facebook (a duh moment) and appreciate the tip and the actionable takeaways!

Re: Mapping Your Way Through Social Media

MSchechter — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:24:45 -0000

Best instant action steps after determining your keywords that I've seen yet. Nicely done!