Comments on: 3 Reasons Why You Should FINT

By: Ener Hax

Ener Hax — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:50:37 +0000

please do think about the offer on the land. we do this for worthwhile people (gee, you rank, ooh) because we believe it helps SL in general. i've met with Linden business peeps in person (way cool offices in San Fran, they also have an office in Beantown) and they have an awesome vision and incredible talent behind it

so if you have time and desire, pop in-world and we'll set you up with a free month, no strings attached at all

lol, we won't even chat with you unless you have questions (we do love to teach, but only if the other person wants it), we have lots on both our plates, and love it like crazy (in case you could not tell!) =D

By: Walter Elly

Walter Elly — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:47:40 +0000

Thanks so much for the insightful comments! Great stuff! I knew that SL was a force to be reckoned with, just did not have a handle before on how it permeated into the greater internet marketing sphere.

Also, the link you shared is fascinating, especially this idea "[Linden Lab] will have created an alternate (yet integrated) version of the Internet. " — unreal!

By: Ener Hax

Ener Hax — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:24:01 +0000

virtual land is competitive and it's not enough to just be in-world with marketing (btw, Linden Lab has HUGE aspirations to dominate social media – link below)

while you can tweet from within sl, we don't connect outward from sl. our efforts point towards our sl biz with flickr (3600 pics), Facebook (800 friends), Twitter (2600 followers), the blog (daily posts – 4 authors), LinkedIn (funny to be there as an avatar), et cetera

you don't need to have your own sim, in less than a month, you can build a presence, and do things like sl podcasts to explain your services, products, or message (if you want to play around with land isl, give me a shout, no biggie, we have 12 sims)

then push your podcasts out from blip.tv to the iTunes store (another free social tool)

lol, i should be the social person for subQuark! (that's his spiel for conferences)

thanks for asking *duct tapes mouth*

http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/08/17/silicon-valleys-sleeper-sensation-linden-lab-takes-a-rocket-launcher-to-social-media/

keep doing good MicroArts people, i <3 the FINT =p

By: Walter Elly

Walter Elly — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:57:55 +0000

Ener Hax – yes Twitter amongst the three connects them together very intimately, I feel that the blog is sortof the conduit between "the web" and "the social web" since it's inherently social and it's content is typically shared through social networks AND it's a great place to link to your social networks too, like we do here

Didn't know that about Internet for Dummies- that's cool!

So I see second life is your business- would love to hear your thoughts on how that connect in with all of this

By: Ener Hax

Ener Hax — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:44:35 +0000

lol, too many channels, I had chirped to you, anyway, awesome resource and love your facebook fan page (the peeps at the deckup look like a great bunch – loved the Twitter for Dummies book – btw, the lady that wrote Internet for Dummies hangs out in Portsmouth often – must be something in the water, or beer, that makes all of you guys so smart) =)

namaste

By: Ener Hax

Ener Hax — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:29:00 +0000

As to ranking these, I like to think of Twitter as the centre of much social media. mainly because it can easily ast as the main connector of Facebook, your blog, LinkedIn and Flickr.

Write blog post and include Flickr pic which updates twitter automatically which updates FB and LinkedIn (plus show blog on LinkedIn).

Works great for us (subbie up there). Hey had I posted here before? o_O

By: Walter Elly

Walter Elly — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:30:11 +0000

Subquark – thanks for taking the time to check out doyoufint and for the kind words and comments! See you online

By: subquark

subquark — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:49:43 +0000

Great article and a well crafted widget!

I tend to go overboard in explaining social media to people. From getting a somewhat unique identifier to setting up gravatar, yahoo and gmail accounts, your big three of course, and setting up analytics.

I love that your doyoufint site walks people through the basics quickly and easily and for free. Truly the spirit of social media and you offer the option for creating a strategy, which is great.

Best of luck to you from one of those "smart* lobster eating peeps" as so eloquently worded by the heady Ener hax! =D

* - smart is loosely applied to me though, having played with everything from cafepress to urbandictionary.com for social stuff!

By: Walter Elly

Walter Elly — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:01:03 +0000

Thanks for the insightful comment. I'd agree, with the caveat that you should be sure to have a strong web and/or blog presence to link to from your Twitter profile in order to provide more general "substance" around your presence.

By: AG

AG — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:01:54 +0000

And if these had to be ranked? I'd put Twitter #1 for sure, and LinkedIn last. For me it's just so much easier to build a relationship on Twitter than anywhere else.