{"id":237,"date":"2010-04-19T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymarketingguide.com\/srufo\/?p=237"},"modified":"2010-04-19T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T19:46:07","slug":"social-media-networks-an-inside-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/2010\/04\/19\/social-media-networks-an-inside-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Networks an Inside Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, a question was asked in one of the social media groups I belong to on LinkedIn:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many social media profiles do you actively manage?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To date there have been over 830 comments from at least 500 people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pretty active discussion.\u00a0 It made me start to think&#8230;what a great informal research project.\u00a0 So, that&#8217;s what we did.\u00a0 We went ahead and tabulated how many social media networks this group uses regularly and what the most important\/popular networks that are being used.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we found:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238 aligncenter\" title=\"Social Media Accounts LinkedIn users Manage Regularly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mymarketingguide.com\/srufo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/accounts-people-manage.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media Accounts LinkedIn users Manage Regularly\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/accounts-people-manage.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/accounts-people-manage-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239 aligncenter\" title=\"Social Networks Usage from Study\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mymarketingguide.com\/srufo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/social-networks.jpg\" alt=\"Social Networks Usage from Study\" width=\"699\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/social-networks.jpg 699w, https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/social-networks-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found it interesting that most people that contributed to this called LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook &#8220;The Big Three&#8221;.\u00a0 From the results you can see that a good portion of the respondents used these three social networks as their primary focus.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing we found from this Discussion Group was the preferred tools.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a listing of the &#8220;best&#8221; tools to help make social media more manageable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ping.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\">ping.fm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HootSuite<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cotweet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CoTweet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/toostep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TooStep<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterflypublisher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ButterflyPublisher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweetdeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TweetDeck<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realmacsoftware.com\/socialite\/\" target=\"_blank\">Socialite<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seesmic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seesmic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Onlywire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeesm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xeesm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Postling<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spreadfast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/addictomatic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Addictomatic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vocus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radian6.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radian6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unilyzer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unilyzer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let me know your thoughts.\u00a0 Do you agree with the results?\u00a0 How often do you update your online profiles for work or personal thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, a question was asked in one of the social media groups I belong to on LinkedIn: &#8220;How many social media profiles do you actively manage?&#8221; To date there have been over 830 comments from at least 500 people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pretty active discussion.\u00a0 It made me start to think&#8230;what a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/2010\/04\/19\/social-media-networks-an-inside-look\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Media Networks an Inside Look<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,105,47,106,137],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news_to_use","tag-facebook","tag-linkedin","tag-social-media","tag-social-research","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}