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I think that we really do need to have separate Social Networking accounts for each major business or blog or product or service or interest we are heavily involved in. Many people who want to hear my Tweets about growing their business would not be so happy if I shared my other serious interests like healthy living or gardening or horses or music let alone philosophy. That is why I'm seeking a utility that allows someone to easily switch between personas on their PCs so they can be effective across multiple IDs on any number of services. Listeners / readers would be happier to have us separate our Tweets and comments by content.

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Hello, for a long time I read your blog, thanks for that that write interesting and
useful posts.I consider that blogers it is possible to name many journalists.

Good luck

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Thanks,

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for January's list of FriendFeeders to follow. It should be hitting the presses later this week.

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Nice list!

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Friendfeed:
Thats a really nice Social networking website!
Thansk for Postings all this great Social networking websites and logs article.
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The number of people I coach who tell me they are not getting traffic and that the site is looking a bit tired. I advise most clients to start a blog in preference to web site. it is so dynamic and by its very nature the client is forced to keep the content fresh.

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You're right, the barrier to entry is low. So you pay a monthly hosting fee, big deal. That's nothing compared to the hundreds of dollars spent on other forms of print media.

Then factor in all of the free social networking tools that help spread your message/service offering. There is of course the time investment that goes into it all, but all in all, it's cost-effective marketing. Something that every business can benefit from moving into 2009!

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thanks for this nice post. it's pretty useful for me

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3 years ago my internet just started with my 3 cents earning and now it is more than $1000. I'll fall myself in crawl to jump category so I always look everything from that perspective. Perhaps it is in my nature and I'll not forget it ever.

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Nice job here, Michael.
I thought I knew it all (LOL), but I had yet to add 7-9 to my repertoire. Thanks for this. I am also curious to your thoughts on Serph, Keotag, and BoardReader.

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Thanks, Mike

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Guillaume,

I use them both, Yahoo Pipes with a little more frequency. Perhaps on the next brand monitoring post I will touch a bit on both of them, more so on Yahoo Pipes. I did not include Yahoo Pipes because it's not beginner friendly as some of the other ones I profiled. Thanks.

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At the time of writing this I think backtype com was new to the scene. It's definitely a worthy mention. I will include that on the next brand monitoring post. Thanks

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Thanks for the list. Do you use PoPurl or Yahoo Pipes??

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Great advice Mike. Just one thing -- this statement:

"If you jump into a community and your only goal is to hawk your wares, you will be seen as a marketer and not a contributor."

Swap out marketer for spammer and you're spot on -- there's nothing wrong with being a marketer ;)

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I couldn't agree more. Although i think for most niches 20 to 25 blogs is more than sufficient.

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Using FFd for traking social friend.

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I have just learned these sites aside Tumblr. I've been using social media sites for long and might try them as well.

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That makes sense. I think for now, with my own project, I'll continue mostly to use my own twitter account but i've set up one for the product and will experiment a bit with both after we launch.

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woops.... I was replying to a different thread. my bad. I'm excited about facebook connect.
http://blog.disqus.net/2008/12/16/disqus-and-fa...

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this is exciting, but I had a hard time getting a facebook application going. isn't the whole idea of bringing your facebook community off facebook is that you might be bringing a less advanced crowd into your online life?

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Mike,

I would create a separate entity for each. It all depends on the situation though. Loic is well known, so it's more beneficial for him to promote seesmic on his Twitter account rather then a separate one. I would let an employee run the official one, field questions, comments, make announcements etc. A little star power never hurts, that's for sure. Thanks.

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Great post Mike but I have a question...If there is someone who is the face of a product, should they create a separate twitter, facebook account for the product? For example, should Loic focus on his own twitter account to promote seesmic or should he focus on the official seesmic account?

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Mike,

Good advice.. I like it... however you also need to accept failure, fail, get up and try again... Without failure you can't taste success

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great post - and it ISN'T on paid blogging...shared!

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