The Great Social Experiment – Roundtable Question 5: Getting Feedback

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
Back in September I began a series experimenting with social networks to view their effectiveness in helping organizations expand their reach, and be included in conversations about their industry wherever those conversations occur.
Now it is time to look at the results. The other day [...]

The Great Social Experiment – Roundtable Question 4: How Aggressively Should I Try to Get Connected?

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
Back in September I began a series experimenting with social networks to view their effectiveness in helping organizations expand their reach, and be included in conversations about their industry wherever those conversations occur.
Now it is time to look at the results. The other day [...]

The Great Social Experiment – Roundtable Question 3: The Right Tools for the Job?

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
Back in September I began a series experimenting with social networks to view their effectiveness in helping organizations expand their reach, and be included in conversations about their industry wherever those conversations occur.
Now it is time to look at the results. The other day [...]

The Great Social Experiment – Roundtable Question 2: Judging Outcomes

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
Back in September I began a series on experimenting with social networks to view their effectiveness in helping organizations expand their reach, and be included in conversations about their industry wherever those conversations occur.
Now it is time to look at the results. The other [...]

The Great Social Experiment – Roundtable Question 1: How Much Time Should Be Devoted to the Care and Feeding of a Social Network?

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
Back in September I began a series on experimenting with social networks to view their effectiveness in helping organizations expand their reach, and be included in conversations about their industry wherever those conversations occur. Now it is time to look at the results. Yesterday [...]

The Great Social Experiment – How Has It Gone?

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
As some of you have followed, I started an experiment on social networking a while back. The experiment attempted to find out how well social networking sites (defined very loosely) can help businesses expand outreach, generate conversations around topics of interest, and increase their [...]

The Great Social Experiment – #3 owwww, i’m u’r biggest fan

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
It has been a while since I last wrote about the Great Social Experiment. I hate when work gets in the way of your blogging. But back at it I am.
The Social Experiment has been rolling along, picking up a little steam here and [...]

The Great Social Experiment #2 – Will You Be My Friend

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
It feels like I just went into a single’s bar and shouted “will somebody be my friend!.”
Recently NPR ran a story called “Online Social Networks No Longer Just for Teens.” What great timing for my little experiment. The story talked about different types of [...]

The Great Social Experiment – #1 Getting Started

REPOST from original article on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
Last week I posted a blog article about a new experiment I am doing – The Great Social Experiment. Since then I have tried to explain this experiment to friends who are not involved in the everyday technobabble in which I live. The main question [...]

Can you digg it? I knew that you could – The Great Social Experiment

REPOST from original series started on blog.thinkfree.com back in September of 2007
I have spent the past couple of weeks preparing for an experiment in social networking. Brian Solis has been a wonderful adviser on everything PR 2.0 and has been influential in pushing me in this direction to build better networks for communicating our company [...]