Are you taking advantage of Social Media & your Communities

[Brandon Sheley]

As some of you may know, or not know, I have a bit of a Twitter addiction
It's not all bad, but at times it seems a bit excessive.lol
Here is are some of the positive results from the addiction.
This is an article I posted on How to use Social Media to build traffic & Brand awareness to your forums, but could be said for websites like blogs as well.
This article outlines how I use Twitter, but the same methods could be applied for Facebook, LinkedIn and a number of other Social Media websites.

Let me know if you have any questions, I'll try to answer them as quickly as I can.

[~kev~]

I'll match that Twitter addiction with a facebook and raise you one youtube

youtube.com/user/survivalistboards

There, beat that.

[OfferUK]

My addiction is Digg I'm afraid!

[Brandon Sheley]

you have a new subscriber Kevin
nice page rank on your channel btw

[jelba]

I use Digg as well.

[Brandon Sheley]

I've never been a fan of digg, I guess it's because my forum was banned years ago.
I'll have to try it out on my blog with my next social media post.

[jamesparker]

So far i haven't that productive results from Social networking websites!

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by jamesparker

So far i haven't that productive results from Social networking websites!

It's something you must work at, it doesn't "just happen" IMO.
Take for example this Twitter account @BrandonSheley
I just started building it up 2 days ago, followed all my vbulletin friends and local friends on Twitter. So far I have 400 followers and in almost 30 list. Hopefully after a month or two, I'll be able to have a few thousand followers and 50 or so list.
I haven't tried pushing anyone to my site, just talking about what's going on in my life & it's working so far.

[lordspace]

Brandon, I'd suggest you build your followers gradually.
In my early Twitter days I tried to follow as much people as possible and then I hit the 2000 people limit that I am allowed to follow

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by lordspace

Brandon, I'd suggest you build your followers gradually.
In my early Twitter days I tried to follow as much people as possible and then I hit the 2000 people limit that I am allowed to follow

I've already ran into that problem on several accounts, I just clear out anyone who doesn't follow me back and it's not a problem

[lxh]

Twitter can really be of help on promoting your site and has been proven to be effective as well, the only thing a bit hard on twitter is to get followers.