Persuasive Picks for the week of 04/21/08

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Christine Perkett
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This week brings five picks on a variety of topics to dive into. Enjoy!

Overcoming key resistence to adopting social media
If your company still hasn’t adopted a social media strategy, then it might be due to one of the reasons listed in this post. However, Shel Holtz lends his expertise to show you why these excuses no longer hold water.

Personal Brand Statement Contest – Win The Full Issue 4
If you haven’t paid for a subscription to Dan Schwabel’s excellent Personal Branding Magazine, then this post will allow you to download a sample of the upcoming issue as well as enter into a contest to win the full version when it comes out.

Video Comments? No Thanks – 5 Reasons They Don’t Work
Earlier this week TechCunch launched the ability to leave video comments on blog posts as an alternative to a traditional text comment – courtesy of the new Seesmic plugin for WordPress. At first, video comments seem to be hip alternative to typing, but in this post, Josh Catone clearly reveals a few downsides to adopting video comments on your blog.

del.icio.us as a PR measurement tool
Andrew Careaga of the Higher Ed Marketing blog gives some incite on a recent experience using the social bookmarking site del.icio.us as a measurement tool when keeping track of media coverage. His advice could also be carried over to similar tools like StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit.

Seven Types Of Highly Effective Corporate Blogs
In this post, Mitch Joel covers 6 styles of corporate blogs and provides examples of each. Does your company’s blog fall into one of these categories? Or perhaps one of these blog types will inspire you to get one started if your company still hasn’t joined the blogosphere.

Tags: Andrew Careaga, Dan Schwabel, del.icio.us, Josh Catone, Mitch Joel, Personal Branding, Read/WriteWeb, Seesmic, Shel Holtz, Social Media Strategy, TechCrunch, Wordpress

Comments

http://www.twistimage.com/blog Mitch Joel – Twist Image

Many thanks for the link love!
http://highered.prblogs.org/ Andrew Careaga

Thanks for mentioning my post about del.icio.us. You’re correct that my observations can carry over to those other social bookmarking sites. I just haven’t done much with any of them yet. I’d be interested in hearing how others may use Digg, etc., as a measurement tool.