social media: Social Media Expert Bill Austin - 09/08/08 05:26 PM
Video segment of Social Media Expert Bill Austin on 12 News Today (NBC) entitled "Extend Your Network with LinkedIn - Social Media Expert Bill Austin talks about network strategies"
This interview was conducted live on Tuesday August 26, 2008.

If you can't see the video above, you can visit here Social Media Expert to view it.
Please note that Bill Austin is not a certified or accredited trainer, is not associated with LinkedIn, and that LinkedIn is a registered trademark of LinkedIn Corporation.
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social media: Animals in Heaven? - 06/30/08 05:55 AM
The post below on one of my other blogs seems to have hit a chord with many people.  It was in the top ten for most popular post on wordpress.com for most of the day yesterday and is sitting at number 12 right now.  It has really not even taken off on Stumbleupon yet and it has  over 1500 visitors today (less than 30 are from stumbleupon.com.)  
Animals in Heaven?  
If you have not joined Stumbleupon yet, why not do that now and leave your ID in the comments below after you have stumbled this post using the button below.  … (1 comments)

social media: Social Media and Active Rain - 06/23/08 02:02 PM
After my presentation on Social Media on Friday tot he Arizona Real Estate Bloggers Network, I decided to try some social media marketing on a few posts here on Active Rain.  I hit acouple of milestones (for me) as a result of that little experiment.
I had my first day when traffic to my AR blog was more than 1000 unique visitors (1,446)
It was also the first time any of my blog posts on AR had been read more than 1000 times. In fact I had one over 1000 and another over 2000 and a third article is about to … (4 comments)

social media: Bill Austin on Social Media - 06/23/08 01:47 PM
Bill Austin presenting Social Media at the third Arizona Real Estate Blogger Network Meetup. This video is approximately 50 minutes long and will give you a general overview of what Social Media is and how to apply it to your Real Estate Business. Bill Austin on Social Media from phoenixrealestatelive on Vimeo. … (3 comments)

social media: Buzz Marketing - 06/19/08 06:44 AM
Buzz marketing is a term often associated with word of mouth and viral marketing techniques.  One of my online associates was talking about buzz and buzz marketing online the other day and I thought I would do some poking around and see who was making a name for themselves in that space.  I ran across a story about half.com and the guy who made them famous by using some inexpensive buzz merketing techniques.  Further research revealed that he had actually written a book on the topic on Buzz marketing and it was available on Amazon.com.  I see examples of buzz marketing … (0 comments)

social media: Social Media Marketing and Social Networking - 06/15/08 06:14 PM
I will be one of five people teaching classes at the next Arizona Real Estate Blogging Network Meeting this Friday June 20th in Scottsdale Arizona.  I look forward to seeing some of you there. My topic will be social media and networking and how they relate to blogs and building your business.
 
From the original announcement, here are the instructors and instructions for RSVP's
 
 
INSTRUCTORS/CLASSES:   JAY THOMPSON - I'm Online Now. Now What? Surefire Traffic   Driving traffic to your blog, building readership and tips on SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  Jay has been blogging for three years … (2 comments)

social media: Stumbleupon Hint #5 - Visit People Online Now - 06/11/08 04:22 AM
Stumbleupon Hint #5 - Visit People Online Now While you are using Stumbleupon.com, other people are also online stumbling. People who are online now, are very likely to be either new users or active users. Active and new users of the Stumbleupon service tend to stumble a lot of pages and tend to pay attention to who is visiting their profiles. By visiting the profiles of these active and new online users, you will find a wide variety of interesting and informative pages that you can stumble as well as find new people to connect to as friends in order to … (2 comments)

social media: Stumbleupon hint #4 Stumbling People - 06/11/08 03:49 AM
Stumbleupon Hint #4 - Stumbling People  
While stumbling people, you can click the click thumbs up or thumbs down and you can click the little bubble to the right of those buttons to write a review.
With people, you can also add up to 200 people as friends and you will be shown their stumbles and reviews as well as all of them for the topics you choose.
The system refines your topics and choices and even items to show you within those topics based on how you react to what it shows you.
The more often and the better … (0 comments)

social media: Stumbleupon Help Hints Tips and Tricks - 05/31/08 05:26 AM
Stumbleupon hint #1
 
Stumbleupon Toolbar Help Hints Tips and Tricks
 
This post is part of a series of articles I wrote about Stumbleupon.com and the answers to various frequently asked questions various people had a need to know about Stumble Upon and how to use it, how to use the Stumbleupon Toolbar, and why certain things happened when certain actions were taken.
Directly Stumbling Friends and other Stumblers
 
You can actually select a stumbler and stumble all of their pages or stumble a specific topic of theirs.
For example, from here: Bill Austin you can select Quotes and … (3 comments)

social media: Spock for Online Reputation Management - 05/26/08 03:41 PM
Is anyone using Spock for online reputation management or for any other purpose?
 
I happened upon it a while ago and became quite active in building my online identity.  For a while, I was the most active member of that system, as you can see from this blog post I wrote back then:
Bill Austin on Spock - Spock Power Leaderboard Basicaly, you find the information about you that is already collected by the system and you claim it as your own and collect it all into your profile.  Then you addadditional information that they did not have.  This can include … (1 comments)