The event that started right here in the comment box is taking place for the third year in Chicago this week. Stop by to add a word or two or to find out what will be happening that you might want to pay attention to.
Oh, and bring links of memories or bring your questions.
Do be nice. 🙂
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Related article
What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?
Here’s how it works.
It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.
There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.
What’s this? A golden opportunity to promote your business, to network, and to learn a few tricks of the trade. Share successes. Swap strategies and stories.
Tell us how you make things work online. Joe will be coming with the questions (and a few answers) and hoping that you’ll be bringing your best ideas and business link.
Join us tonight and bring links your business to add to the discussion.
Do be nice. 🙂
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Related article
What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?
One strength of Twitter is the speed, reach, and ease of connection that is social business. In a few tweets and direct messages, we can gather a team and make a project happen.
The Likeability Factor
Social business connections happen so quickly and easily. It’s not hard to develop a false sense of a person’s abilities. Extended online business conversations that explore theory, philosophy, and expertise can overshadow the reality that we’ve never actually seen or worked with a person.
As a young manager making my first hire in the offline world, I was swayed by whether I liked the candidates sitting across from me.
But when folks can’t or don’t do the job, they become problematic no matter how likeable they are in a more social context.
Tim Sanders suggested likeability was necessary, not a replacement for, traditional skills sets. It’s easy to get caught in hidden assumptions about these equally important business “abilities.”
BUSINESS LIKEABILITY – competent, trustworthy, and a pleasure to work with.
No time before has any culture had the power to build deep, strategic networks so efficiently. The connections have incredible potential to keep our businesses growing with minimal overhead and maximum accomplishment. No time before has business been so global and fluid. We’re learning to navigate a new reality.
We have to keep remembering to ask questions.
Do online conversations to lead to hidden assumptions more often than the offline equivalent?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!
What’s this? A golden opportunity to promote your business, to network, and to learn a few tricks of the trade. Share successes. Swap strategies and stories.
Tell us how you make things work online. Joe will be coming with the questions (and a few answers) and hoping that you’ll be bringing your best ideas and business link.
Join us tonight and bring links your business to add to the discussion.
Do be nice. 🙂
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Related article
What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?
When new clients ask questions about marketing with social media, it’s getting easier to determine who’s going to be successful. It’s not their goals that identify them as understanding the social business culture. It’s the way they view their product and the people who use it.
The questions they ask quickly reveal who understands the new social climate, who realizes that it’s not about finding customers for their products, but about using their products to connect people to other people. For folks still steeped in broadcast marketing, the conversation quickly turns to product features, uses, and lead generation.
Old thinking was hard enough.
The new thinking is even harder to execute. It brings people much further into the picture. Now we have to show how our products bring people together. Like great design, great products and great marketing call attention to and serve their audience.
It’s not about the champagne or the size of the bubbles … it’s about the celebration!
Have you seen any great examples of marketing that connected people with people?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!
Register for SOBCon09 NOW!! Invest, Learn, Grow!
Here’s how it works.
It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.
There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.
Delegation. We can’t get work done without help, but no one can do our work as well as we can … right? Actually, maybe we ought to reconsider.
What myths about VAs do you believe?
And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Related article
What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?