Today I resurrected an account with flavours.me after a launch of Version 2 last week.
As a social portfolio it does very well. The only obvious account mising for me was de.licio.us but apart from that all the usual suspects were there along with the ability to add your own RSS feeds.
You get a selection of designs and layout options, colour scheme options, fonts and personal backgrounds.
If you pay £12.50 a year through paypal (or not considering recent events) you can use your own URL and other design features.
I am set up at iam.tomsteel.co.uk, try your own at flavours.me
These opinion pieces are everywhere.
Why Google+ Pages Isn’t Good for Business
4 Reasons Google+ Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook’s
Google Plus Finds Sweet Spot Between Facebook & Twitter
Google Engineer Calls Google Plus a ‘Complete Failure’; 5 Reasons We Agree
Why It is Wrong to Call Google Plus a Failure
Google Plus may be “not ready” for business, but it isn’t “not good for business”. It’s a beta product, the future is far from clear.
It would be foolish to right off the provider of the biggest search engine, video sharing and blogging platform. But equally daft to claim you must join in now or you’ll miss out.
Articles which launch with attention grabbing headlines like “Why Google+ Pages Isn’t Good for Business” are just as bad as the confusing rhetoric they criticise other of.
All any of these pieces needs to say is “Google Plus is interesting, but it’s not there yet, watch this space”
The last two articles linked to at the top of this peice are from the same website, so at least there’s some other balance out there.
A good piece about difficulties and successes of using social media, with real examples – not just opinions! “A Positive Response to a ‘Negative’ Tweet“. How refreshing.
About a month ago I had this same conversation with my friend Shira Lazar and she said something interesting. The topic was on trying to get someone to stop saying something on social media. Shira said something like, “people are going to think bad thoughts. They are going to talk about it with their friends. They will be sharing. At least on social media you know what they are and you can address them” – BINGO!
Thanks to Sue Fiddler for finding it, you can read the full article at hardlynormal.com/blog/2011/02/05/a-positive-response-to-a-negative-tweet/
Thanks to Carl Haggerty for posting up this presentation by Oliver Blanchard, something which cuts through the social media crap and shows obvious ways to tell if all your social marketing is actually doing anything. And of course what’s key to any good presentation, it has excellent graphics.
