1. Continue to invite connections to play the latest Zynga game on Facebook
2. Use your new linked in connection as a job reference because they are an executive in a high profile company.
3. Send invites to your latest social media platform using a canned email.
4. Make it difficult for a users to delete their profile from your social platform.
5. Collect fans for your corporate facebook page to make up for poor customer service.

1. http://collecta.com/#trends
2. http://www.crowdeye.com/home.aspx
3. http://www.oneriot.com/
4. http://whostalkin.com/
5. http://buzzzy.com/
6. http://www.icerocket.com/
7. http://itstrending.com/
8. http://www.evri.com/
9. http://www.kurrently.com/
10. http://youropenbook.org/

Search engines are becoming more and more aggressive as competition has become fierce between Google,Yahoo and Bing. People used to pay Yahoo $300 a few years ago to have their site “priority indexed”. Now its a race between the big 3 to get relevant information into results as fast as a possible. So being aware of how you engage on twitter, facebook and other networks is becoming more important.

2. 8% of People Have Been Fired For Negative Comments About job On Facebook

Online experts are now estimating that 8% of people being fired were not mindful of trivial things they posted about their job.

Entries on facebook can result in loss of income if a manager or potential customer takes exception. Be mindful of what you post on facebook there are people watching!

3. A Twitter prescience is important

Use Twitter make contacts and get your message out but sparingly. Frequent posts to twitter can make you look like you do very little work while no posts may seem like your unaware of its importance. Use Twitter like a front page headline to call attention to things that are potentially important to business and avoid being a chatterbox.

4. Your Social Network Is Potentially Worth Money

People are beginning to look to their friends for recommendations for products and paying less and less attention to ads. Companies are examining to embrace this as a new channel of selling products. If your perceived as a major influencer on a specific genre or region or over a group of people it could mean big bucks for you in the future.

Employers are also starting to look at professional directories like Linkedin and examining the number of relationships and the quality of those people when considering new hires. In many cases they are turning to Linkedin as a quality recruiting tool. Making your personal brand even more crucial in the very near future.

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• Google searches getting more social (cnn.com)
• Social networks drive traffic to retailers and news sites (theequitykicker.com)

I saw this on Techcrunch as part of a longer article but it needs to be reposted.

Factor 4: Content is King?

Indeed, to paraphrase Viacom’s Chairman Sumner Redstone: content becomes more important than distribution mechanisms; as new channels of distribution creep up, it is the content that is always going to be necessary, hence the adage “content is king”.  If you fast forward to 2010, it’s true that with all of these social media aggregation and distribution tools, you are seeing media rise to the surface.  No one, after all, cares about the pipes; it’s what flows through the pipes that matters.  The context—Facebook, Twitter, email—in which people are introduced to media and consume it is becoming more important than the content itself.  Content is no longer king, context is.

You can read a recap of this entire study at http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/30/context-is-king-how-videos-found/