Improve Your Status

I’ve attended a few presentations on “Web 2.0” or “social networking” and the like and are usually disappointed. I’ve even blogged about how awful these things are. Tonight I attended a meeting titled “Social Networking – Using Technology and the Web as a Highly Effective and Low-Cost Ways to Recruit Volunteers” presented by Laura Briere, CEO and Founder of Vision Advertising.

Laura stressed the importance of updating your status on sites like Linked-In, Facebook, and Twitter on a daily basis. This is a good way to stay top-of-mind with your network and reinforce your reputation as someone who is active, fun, and up to something important. You can even use it to invite people to events or to check out your website. But, who has time to update all those different sites? The solution is my favorite new tip from Laura – Ping.fm. This site allows you to update all those other sites in one place. Of course, it doesn’t tell you what to say. You still have to figure that out on your own.