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Many people lose track in the Social Media-jungle. Facebook…Twitter…Blogging… Where and how do I reach my customers the best?

A great article on the topic “communication with Social Media” by Soren Gordhamer is available on mashable.com.

Conclusion: There is a fine line between reaching out people and ’spamming’ people.

Here are the 7 Lessons for better networking with Social Media:

1. Find a Person’s Preferred Communication Channel: Go where they are!

2. Say Just Enough: Less is more!

3. Don’t Expect a Response: Say what you need to and then let it go.

4. Clarify Early: Say it up front.

5. What You Want is Not the Point: No one knows what the future may hold, so make the moment count. Ensure the door stays open, even if no one is walking through it right now.

6. Be Open Without Needing: Speak from openness rather than need.

7. Give Space: Focus on thoughtful instead of continual contact.

We will do our best! Thanks for the great tips…

We’re all using the web, but some questions remain open:

How are we using the web?

How many people are using it?

How many websites are there?

The Royal Pingdom blog has some answers for us! Here is the internet 2009 in numbers:

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First of all, i have to thank myildiz for his latest contribution Visibility for Yasni via collaborative effort. We are looking forward to more of your contributions and the subsequent discussion within the Yasni community.

At the moment, the topic “Social Media” is very present in the media. I’ve found something interesting on digitalbuzzblog.com - the new social media policy of Coca Cola:

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Greetings from Melbourne, Australia (a.k.a. Downunder).

This is my first blog on Yasni.

Blogging is a fascinating experience. I am feeling good. Because all beginnings in life make me feel excited and full of energy to embrace the world around me. Each meaningful connection is like an object of happiness and joy in the online world.

I have been blogging in a number of sites such as Ecademy, Superfan, Blogspot, Wordpress, Twitter for personal matters and internally in IBM as an employee about technical matters mainly in computing and information technology and a number of close academic and scientific networks for professional and research matters. Now you may ask, after blogging a number of sites, why would choose blogging in Yasni?

Good question! Yasni is a unique site from a number of perspectives. I was introduced Yasni by a co-networker who is well connected and producing excellent results in social networks through his authentic interaction. He is from Germany whom I met face to face so we established reasonable trust for collaboration. This insightful person provided me a number of compelling reasons to join Yasni. One of the key reasons he provided me was about credibility of content rated by peers from any part of the globe. Even though it sounds simple, it has important positive implications and high impact as far as user generated content phenomena. The beauty of Yasni for me was its implementation of metaphorical German engineering rigor from process perspective yet embracing diversity with a vision of globalisation.

After meeting a number of co-networkers here, I was offered to blog in Yasni which is a privilege to me. I am a person with eclectic taste, open mind and thirsty to knowledge which you may notice from my blogs in Ecademy or the blogs which I will be posting here regularly.

In each blog, I ask question related to the theme of the day. As it is about feeling good and new beginnings, I would like to obtain your views on these theme as well. For example, what key things make you feel good in life? What are the new beginnings which you experienced recently? How do they feel? And yes, why are you in Yasni? What is your compelling reason? Who was your catalyst to be a member here?

As an introductory conclusion of my blog today, I’d like to thank the Yasni team for giving me the opportunity to blog here. I am honoured and feel grateful with this jest. Look forward to your comments; I know they will fix my serotonin level by putting smiles on my face stemming from constructive contribution…Let’s feel good together with mutual insights!

Regards,
Dr. Mehmet Yildiz

I have just read an interesting article on Canada.com about privacy on the internet and whether or not there is even such a thing these days.

With growing developments within the online world, it seems it is getting easier to find out any information you would ever want to know about an individual and people are living their lives completely transparently through the internet without even realising it.

There was a big news story in the UK where the wife of Britain’s Spy Chief was using Facebook and posted photographs of them on holiday and told people where they lived; not only damaging to her husband’s career, but also potentially life-threatening due to the nature of his role.

According to the study, it is not only social networking sites that pose a problem. Alberta Health Services, the first in Canada to use electronic health records, lost 11,000 private records recently thanks to a hacker.

Once again, this reiterates the importance of regularly monitoring your online profile and ensuring that your address, telephone number and even your medical records aren’t being displayed publicly on the internet!

There has been an interesting news story this week about 5 Californians suing Facebook; claiming it violates their rights to privacy.

The 5 people, including 2 children, a photographer and an aspiring actress, claim that Facebook has gathered and shared their personal information with third party groups, as well as taking part in data mining procedures.

A similar case was brought to Facebook earlier in the year, when a young boy created an account without his parent’s permission and later uploaded pictures of him and his young friends in their swim wear.

This is another example of how people need to monitor their own online reputation and, very crucially, this highlights how important it is for parent’s to check their children’s online presence to ensure that the above cases do not happen again.

I have just stumbled across a really interesting article from a company called Cyber-Ark. They recently surveyed more than 400 senior Information Technology professionals and found that more than 1 in 3 abuse administrative passwords to access private and confidential data, such as salary, details of pay increases, discussions held at board meetings and private email accounts.

These results are staggering, not to mention a complete breach of their rights. It’s really shocking, that such a high proportion of skilled I.T. professionals take advantage of their position!

I just thought I would share this with you all.

Yasni had a brilliant week last week and managed to achieve incredible levels of national coverage in the UK. This included a huge article in the Guardian, which focused on Yasni and its many functions:

The UK release explored how to track people down on the internet and the amount of time people spent per month doing so. The coverage was phenomenal. The Times wrote about Yasni and how it can be used to track down the people you hate and the Daily Mail referred to Yasni as the Big Brother of the online world.

We just wanted to share some of our latest success with you!

I thought I would share this wonderful piece of exposure for Yasni in the UK. The Association of Graduate Recruiters Conference is a chance for recruitment professionals from all over the UK to meet up and discuss the recruitment industry and this year, a site called Here Comes The Boss showed a video to all attendees about how and why Web 2.0 will affect the recruitment sector.

Yasni was included within the video presentation and was recommended as a website that would be useful to recruiters in the future! We are absolutely thrilled with this and you can watch it here…

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The all new Yasni.com Facebook group has just been launched and allows us to keep you guys up to date with all the latest Yasni news! Not to mention, enables us to show off all of our wonderful global coverage!

You can find the group at http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/Yasnicom-find-yourself-online/91053483145 and we would love you to come along and become a fan of our group!

The Facebook group also allows us to share any breaking news stories surrounding online privacy and personal online reputation management so be sure to check back regularly for interesting updates!

If there is anything else you would like to see on the Yasni.com Facebook group then send us a message and we will try our best to include it!