Comments on: Virtual and Physical Social Networking – A Web of Connections!

By: bizsugar.com

bizsugar.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:25 +0000

Virtual and Physical Social Networking – A Web of Connections!…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of networking, and what impact leveraging your small business networks has on your business.

Darren Rowse @ Problogger.net put together a great post (and nice graphic) detailing what makes up his …

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By: smallbizbee

smallbizbee — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:02:48 +0000

@Bruce
I think you’re following the concept I’m trying to get across. In and of itself the social media outlets may not be the destination for your business, but they play a role in the overall network reach of your organization. So while your business may not have a direct line to twitter, it has a dotted line relationship through your customers, or others in you physical networking world.

As for being stretched, yeah…you need some parameters on how far out you want to go with your networking or you will drive yourself crazy trying to keep up with it all.

Matt

By: Bruce Nunnally

Bruce Nunnally — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:57:55 +0000

I enjoyed this post.

Now add dimensions for your Competitors, your Suppliers, Innovators in the field that you need to monitor and you see why one might feel stretched.

Perhaps the lines which connect me in a relationship are Twitter or Facebook, not the destination. So the original network would not show a connecting line from my Business to Twitter, but that Twitter is a connecting line from my business or site to my key supplier for example. The social media sites are NOT the objective. They are one type of conduit to the objective of better communications with my customers, suppliers, competitors, etc.