I just haven’t been able to get into Ning. For the networks I’m in, it seems like no one can get a conversation going. I’ve tried, but nothing. And I’m not in it just to post links, if you know what I mean. But you and I are connected on Facebook and Twitter; just can’t do MySpace. lol

I’m using social media for promotion in a few different ways.

I’m active on LinkedIn, MySpace, and Facebook where I use blog posts and comments to connect with friends who follow my main blog, forum and network–not everybody follows me on all three and some people choose to do no more than follow me on the specific social site that they frequent, but between the three networks, I’ve built a nice following. I’ve also created fan pages for my forum and network with RSS feeds from each for those who want to join me there. I added my blog to the Networked Blogs application and that’s added to my readership.

I’m also very active on Ning and use RSS to post blog updates to my profile pages. I’ve created my own network on Ning and have grown it to 100 members so far. My forum is becoming more and more active with 721 members so far. I’ve found that using social media applications to create my own communities has the biggest payoff.

I’m not too frequent a Twitterer although I maintain a personal account and an account for my network with automatic posts of network and forum activity in addition to my own insights. I’m not one who wants lots of followers for the sake of it and I try to connect and interact with folks who share my interests.

I maintain a presence on lots of other sites and use Ping.fm to keep them fairly up to date but the sites I’ve discussed are where I spend the majority of my time in addition to trying to spend time building community on the network and forum that I’ve created.
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I didn’t mention Ning because I just can’t seem to get any real feeling for it. I’ve never seen any real action from any of the groups I’m in, which either means I’m in the wrong groups or people just aren’t that interested in its model.

That Ryze thing is karma; at least you know it wasn’t me! lol

I’m active on a lot of social networking sites and I use MyBlogLog.com and FriendFeed to tie them together.

I’m on Twitter quite a bit, but not nearly as much as you. Right now, it’s running in Twitterrific, but there’s not much I’m interested at 4:30 am on a Saturday in the stream.

I use it to tweet new blog posts, talk to friends (like you), post events in Murphy (using the #MurphyNC hashtag), and now and then retweet something. I should probably do more retweeting, but I don’t.

I use Facebook mostly for social reasons, rather than business. Quite a few of my family and friends are there and it’s a good way to keep in touch. I use it a little for business, but not primarily.

I haven’t gone to Ryze in months, but yesterday got a message that someone had sent me a private message there. Coincidence?

I’m active on a few Ning communities, but because of time restraints spend most of my time on the two I manage.

At one time, I thought Apsense was going to be a good site, but it got bogged down by too many clueless promoters and spammers, and I haven’t been back there in a long time.

I still visit a few forums, but not as much as I used to.

Blogging takes up some of my time, but I’m spending even more working on planning and implementing some of my static sites.

I like a mix of a static site, blog, and social network for a good mix of synergy and interaction.

Act on your dream!

JD
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