In this post I expand on the third tip in my series 5 Tips for Starting a Home Based Business: Build New Networks In that initial, overview post I wrote about building new networks: As my handwritten scrawl shows, the first version of this was “Build your networks”. The trouble is, while the networks we […]
Des Walsh March 1, 2011
Build New Networks: 5 Tips for Starting a Home Based Business
Filed Under: Work From Home Tagged With: Facebook, home based business, LinkedIn Maps, networking, Social Media, Social Networks, TouchGraph
Des Walsh May 14, 2010
I Blame Facebook for Debasing the Language of Friendship and Practice of Networking
We need to talk about Friends, Fans, “Likers”, Connectors and Followers: “friends” online can be different from the traditional, offline concept
Filed Under: Social Networks Tagged With: Facebook, fans, followers, friends, LinkedIn, Social networking, Twitter
Des Walsh July 17, 2009
Notifying Facebook Friends About My New Page
I’ve been having an interesting time – for “interesting” read “time-consuming and frustrating but I hope it’s worth it” – working out how to communicate a particular message to friends on Facebook. For experienced Facebook users what I’ve learned the hard way will probably seem terribly obvious, but someone might find some value in my […]
Filed Under: Social Media, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Facebook, fan page, friends
Des Walsh July 8, 2009
Getting Serious About Facebook
I’m currently re-jigging my business presence on Facebook and finding myself on a new learning curve about the platform and how it works. I don’t mind going through that learning process, because I believe that understanding how Facebook works and being able to manage how we use that for our brands and how it can […]
Filed Under: Branding, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Social Media
Des Walsh August 29, 2007
Is it Adieu Blog Business Summit, or Just Au Revoir?
A few days ago I wrote not one, but two posts about the Blog Business Summit scheduled for Chicago in September. One post was on this blog and the other was on the Business and Blogging site. So, rightly or wrongly, I felt a bit of a goose today when I got the email today […]
Filed Under: Blogging, Events, General, Social Media Tagged With: Blog Business Summit, Chicago, Facebook
