To be a Social Media Expert, some people believe this is all it takes.....



Personally, I'm no expert, however I was LinkedIn member 113,215 (now over 150 million LinkedIn users) and joined Facebook September 26, 2006, the first day it was available without an .edu email address.  I sent my first tweet on June 17, 2007.  As I said as the moderator of the "Twitter Frontier - Harnessing the Power of Social Media While Protecting Your Franchise System" in February at the 52nd annual International Franchise Association's Annual Convention, I like to think I'm more a voice of reason and practicality about social networks than a heavy user and certainly not an "expert"!

Especially as defined above!

Here's a nice piece on what it takes to be a "social media expert":

http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/10865.aspx

Well, perhaps, I do fall into that category on 10 of the 12 points - at least when it comes to franchising, franchise development, and Marketing/PR. 

Do you?

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Time of the year to reflect on things.   As an early adopter of technology (still have my original MacIntosh from 1984), I'm thinking of the early adopter things I DON'T do anymore:

1. Download and manage podcasts in iTunes - Now I just subscribe and listen to them on Stitcher Radio.
2. Manage my music in iTunes - Now I listen to my music and music I don't own on Spotify, Google Music, Pandora and iHeartradio.
3. Read and manage my RSS feeds through Google Reader - now i use Flipboard, Pulse, and Google Currents.
4. Try to keep up with Twitter - I still will use Hootsuite but find integrating into Flipboard a much better experience.  Same with Facebook and LinkedIn.
5. Try to get my email to Inbox Zero - Impossible! 
6. Search the web for interesting things to read - I let my curators do that for me on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, & Google+ and then read it in Flipboard etc.
7. Read Techcrunch - I get the headlines of all the Techcrunch stories every morning on Stitcher.
8. In my car, plug my iPhone into my factory-installed iPhone adapter in the glove box.  I just plug my iPhone in through an RCA cable so I can still access it (at red lights).
9. Listen to XM/Sirius in the car - See above.  
10. Download music to the car's hard drive - Ditto above.

How about you?

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Social Geek Radio September 1, 2011

Here are the Valpak envelope images I mentioned that contain QR Codes.

 

Here's a link to the sources I cited on the show tonight.

And of course, here's a link and the QR Code to the show....

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