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I was unexpectedly unable to attend #brrism4 tonight - thwarted by unseen forces I was obliged to remain at home this evening.

No matter, this evening this excellent social media network group were super organised, teched up, tricked out and ready to COMMUNICATE! Oh yes mate…

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In the spirit of recycling -and on the back of the linkedin/twitter link up announcements - here is a post I prepared much much earlier (7th October 2009) on the subject of social media machinery.

Busy busy …
I’ve been busy today, tidying up my online profile across a number of platforms. I always struggle with a collective noun for the blogs, microblogs, network profiles, share sites and bookmarking doodads that make up online activity. I’ve decided on platform for now - if you’ve got a better, more elegant word for it all, please leave a comment and let me know. I’ll start using it immediately.

While connecting my facebook public profile with my twitter and trying to find a ‘follow me’ widget I might like to sprinkle across my platforms, it struck me that I have gone about creating my online profile in a most haphazard way. Anyone following my digital footprint would be forgiven for thinking they were tracking a hopeless, digitally ambiguous, drunk. This magpie approach has been really useful for me. I’ve picked up on new opportunities as I’ve found them, had fun learning new things and grown in confidence and authority with some ‘new’ communication channels.

All of which has helped me offer sane and simple advice, when asked, on how to use the social media, emerging media channels available online to ‘make some noise’ or to research and engage with stakeholders. So before you link your twitter to your linkedin account and start weaving your profile together all over the internet, take a moment to do some joined up thinking about what is really going to work for you. Next page: Start with a stakeholder plan…

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