Social Media Landscape Update

As you can obviously tell, I haven’t posted on here for a little while.

I have a couple of updates I need to inform you about.

You will notice the comments have been removed.  I was using a different service for comments but for some reason it wasn’t working properly.  People said they were leaving comments but nothing ever showed up.

While using that comment service, spammers were continually leaving spam messages, even though the service didn’t show them, they were there.  So when I removed the service, there were over 3,900 comments.  Mostly Spam!

I couldn’t go through and read every one and weed out the bad and keep the good.  It would have taken A LONG time, which I didn’t have.  What I did was purge the comments database to start anew.

SPAM

I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.  There were great comments and conversations, especially about the current series of Small Business posts.

So I ask you and encourage you to write and comment.  I am not using a service anymore.  I have added some security and Anti-SPAM measures so it should be smooth sailing.

The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is updates to this blog.  They are resuming, now that everything has been fixed on the backend.  I’m sorry for the delay.  A lot of the comments were from people who wanted the next blog post in the series.  It will be up shortly.

Please leave a comment and let me know if you have any questions, would like to contribute an article or be a guest author, or if there are any specific subjects you want covered.

The Social Media Landscape – Defined!

The Social Media Landscape is a big big place consisting of thousands of social networking sites and other forms of communication. The term “Social Media Landscape” has been used for years, but it really hasn’t been defined.

So I ask you to join in and let us define what the Social Media Landscape is.

• Is it a website? A series of websites? A feeling? A way to communicate?
• Who uses it? Can it be used? What is it used for?
• How do you use it? What do you use to traverse the Social Media Landscape?

So let’s start the conversation and see where it goes. If you have sites to recommend they will be added to the site list. If you have tools you suggest, they’ll be added to the tool box. If you have ideas that you haven’t seen in your travels, then we’ll put them in the idea factory.

This is YOUR place, so come on in, pull up a chair, and (more…)