Sharing new concepts learned at the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration – Part 1
Picture credit to Jeannet Kaplun
Holy Kow!
I must admit that I’ve had an admiration for Guy Kawasaki but always knew that he didn’t have the style I wanted to pursue for myself nor my clients. However, I was genuinely curious to hear about his ways of using Twitter. Guess what? I ended up learning a ton from Guy and totally changed my perception of him.  Here’s what I found most relevant:
It’s ok to use ghosts as long as you’re transparent. Often we’re under the impression that we must do it all when it comes to our social media presence for the business. At that point it’s better if we close the shop and stay on our pajamas writing blogs and engaging with every single comment that comes our way. Then come the bills!! It’s ok to delegate and be transparent about it. Guy gave excellent examples of what he delegates: The staff will do the research, look for killer content relevant to his communities and target audience, edit some publications, manage his brand accounts, monitors traffic, sentiments and so forth. Not ok to make people believe your secretary is actually you!
Take a practical approach: I’m in love of Guy’s definition of the CyberNazis: “poor SEO expert who goes in life telling people that he knows how Google works and really has no clue about what he’s doing” the he added: “most likely still leaving with his mom and spends most of his time playing video games and dictating to people the right way to use social media”. I found that to be so true. It’s ok to have the humility to know that people are not waiting for your little tweet all day long. So set-up some automatic tweets. Guy uses Objective Marketer and TwitterFeed to do that. Here I’m not too sure about the numbers, Guy sends 25 links 4 times a day. I’ve done it twice since the conference and my traffic has actually gone from 540 to an average of 1010 per post. So it really works. I have the temptation to go up to 3 times, but it totally embarrasses me. The best idea is to do it at different times of the day. Usually the people who are around 7 am are not the same folks who join the evening Twitter parties or chats. So the same applies to the afternoon crowd, usually young moms who have their toddlers napping or business owners who have already taken care of morning business and are managing email inboxes, @replies, LinkedIn connections and so forth. Give me your advice on this one.
Use of powerful tools. I love it when the pros share their secret tools. Here is a list from Guy: Stumbleupon, Prosterous (I just started that one today. Check it out) MyAlltop (love the one created for LATISM) and Friendfeed. If you remember any other I might have missed, please add it here.
I ended up learning so much that I’m even harvesting some fruits already. I hope you can also put some of these lessons into practice. And please share your thoughts about how often we should push our own content to the networks.
@vmramos Wow! that makes me feel like “pase de primaria al bachillerato” kind of a thing. LOL. It will be an honor
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@sawickis @vmramos @mommymovement @guykawasaki Thank you so much for the RT. Did you see my first http://anarc.posterous.com/ LOL
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New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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RT @AnaRC: New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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RT @AnaRC: New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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RT @AnaRC: New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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@AnaRC You’ve been prolific lately. ¿Cuándo nos haces un guest post para el #Hispanosphere?
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@AnaRC You’ve been prolific lately. ¿Cuándo nos haces un guest post para el #Hispanosphere?
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@AnaRC You’ve been prolific lately. ¿Cuándo nos haces un guest post para el #Hispanosphere?
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@AnaRC, I liked this from your post: “It’s ok to have the humility to know that people are not waiting for your little tweet all day long”
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@AnaRC, I liked this from your post: “It’s ok to have the humility to know that people are not waiting for your little tweet all day long”
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@AnaRC, I liked this from your post: “It’s ok to have the humility to know that people are not waiting for your little tweet all day long”
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RT @AnaRC: New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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RT @AnaRC: New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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RT @AnaRC: New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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@vmramos Wow! that makes me feel like “pase de primaria al bachillerato” kind of a thing. LOL. It will be an honor
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@vmramos Wow! that makes me feel like “pase de primaria al bachillerato” kind of a thing. LOL. It will be an honor
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Thanks for the kind words! It’s Posterous though I hope it will be Prosperous!
Guy
@sawickis @vmramos @mommymovement @guykawasaki Thank you so much for the RT. Did you see my first http://anarc.posterous.com/ LOL
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@sawickis @vmramos @mommymovement @guykawasaki Thank you so much for the RT. Did you see my first http://anarc.posterous.com/ LOL
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@AnaRC Yeah, great content in that first post.
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@AnaRC Yeah, great content in that first post.
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Thank you so much! just fixed it. See, I’m still learning. LOL
@AnaRC No problem, great post! I had forgotten about Posterous, so thank you.
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@AnaRC No problem, great post! I had forgotten about Posterous, so thank you.
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@AnaRC No problem, great post! I had forgotten about Posterous, so thank you.
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@AnaRC I was contemplating on this too. Let me know how it’s working for you. I might follow suit real soon. Thanks @GuyKawasaki 4 this tip
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@AnaRC I was contemplating on this too. Let me know how it’s working for you. I might follow suit real soon. Thanks @GuyKawasaki 4 this tip
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@AnaRC I was contemplating on this too. Let me know how it’s working for you. I might follow suit real soon. Thanks @GuyKawasaki 4 this tip
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RT @AnaRC: @sawickis @vmramos @mommymovement @guykawasaki Thank you so much for the RT. Did you see my first http://anarc.posterous.com/ LOL
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RT @AnaRC: @sawickis @vmramos @mommymovement @guykawasaki Thank you so much for the RT. Did you see my first http://anarc.posterous.com/ LOL
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RT @AnaRC: @sawickis @vmramos @mommymovement @guykawasaki Thank you so much for the RT. Did you see my first http://anarc.posterous.com/ LOL
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New post: Sharing what I learned from @GuyKawasaki http://premiersocialmedia.com/2010/02/24... at the #DisneySMMoms via @AddToAny #Latism #Roc
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@AnaRC Yeah, great content in that first post.
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Great resources. Thanks for the post.
Really we need solution that responds to multiple markets and constituents. Thanks a lot.
Truly one must be careful enough while using social networking sites as they have their pros and cons!!!!
Thanks for sharing the great resources of Social Media… Good Job!!
I really loved the theme of the post, Keep up the good work…