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  • kingpd@businessprints.net
    Senior Tech
    500+ Posts
    • Feb 2008
    • 919

    Who's using social media?

    Is your company using social media to get the word out there that you exist?

    Do you myspace, youtube, facebook, twitter, tweet, and twat, and link in?
  • Hansoon
    Field Supervisor
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    • Sep 2007
    • 3251

    #2
    Re: Who's using social media?

    Not me nor my company. Like to stay away from it as long as possible. Too much security/privacy issues.

    Hans
    " Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0 "

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    • mrwho
      Major Asshole!
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      2,500+ Posts
      • Apr 2009
      • 4298

      #3
      Re: Who's using social media?

      I use facebook mainly to share funny and interesting things and ideas with my friends. My wife's small shop also has a fb account and she uses it to spread the word about her services, and already had a number of customers who came through facebook, so it works, at least for small businesses.
      ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
      Mascan42

      'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'

      Ibid

      I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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      • atwageman
        Trusted Tech
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        100+ Posts
        • Jun 2007
        • 124

        #4
        Re: Who's using social media?

        I don't use it much......I could care less about somebody posting updates on their whereabouts, the new trick they tuaght their dog, new born baby pics (all babies are ugly to varying degrees), and so on......

        The company I work for requests that we don't list them as our employer in our employment status....I agree with this as we have some federal accounts that don't appreciate social media.

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        • Lagonda
          Service Manager
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          • Aug 2008
          • 1650

          #5
          Re: Who's using social media?

          Whats all this Social Media business?
          Facebook?
          Twitter??
          Have I missed out on something here?
          At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.

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          • kingpd@businessprints.net
            Senior Tech
            500+ Posts
            • Feb 2008
            • 919

            #6
            Re: Who's using social media?

            More business are putting up myspace, facebook, twitter, youtube, and linkedin pages.

            Some even advertise their facebook page rather than their own website which I think is dumb.

            Originally posted by Lagonda
            Whats all this Social Media business?
            Facebook?
            Twitter??
            Have I missed out on something here?

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            • rthonpm
              Field Supervisor
              2,500+ Posts
              • Aug 2007
              • 2831

              #7
              Re: Who's using social media?

              LinkedIn, yes; I've actually been able to reconnect on a professional level with some old bosses and even clients.
              The rest of the social world is either for twelve year olds or people who think that every moment of their life is some kind of grand and important statement to be recorded for all of posterity.

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              • DWise
                Senior Tech
                500+ Posts
                • Apr 2010
                • 898

                #8
                Re: Who's using social media?

                MySpace still exists?? I thought that died out a couple of years ago...
                Do for one what you wished you could do for everyone. - Andy Stanley

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                • LOUCAPPOZZOLI
                  Jack of All Trades
                  • Jan 2008
                  • 66

                  #9
                  Re: Who's using social media?

                  We use social media to try and drive traffic to our website. I use it mainly more for informational stuff like an extension of our website blog. If you focus more on engaging with people rather than trying to sell to them using social media, it works out a bit better. It's more about building your company as a brand and authority than anything.


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                  • Samanator
                    Service Manager
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                    • Sep 2017
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                    #10
                    Does MySpace still exist?

                    I guess so......

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                    • slimslob
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                      • May 2013
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                      #11
                      For some people CTN is a type of Social Media. A place online where people can get together and discus things.

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                      • Larhal
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                        • May 2013
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by slimslob
                        For some people CTN is a type of Social Media. A place online where people can get together and discus things.
                        Slim you are sooo correct.
                        Larhal

                        Retired

                        If all else fails read the Service Manual!

                        If that fails, meet me at the pub and we will discuss it, maybe, probably not we are at the pub!

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