Chance Spann Interactive Producer Suggestion: " KNOW Social Networking!"

As usual let us define as "you" the people of the internet would define " Social Media" by visiting Wiki...

"Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers."

For any brand or even for myself, its imperative today and even more in the future to completely engage you or your brand into the social media networking angle to get in the loop of what is "fresh" and to draw especially a younger audience. Folks lets face it, what used to sell does not work as well as it used to, the numbers are proving it and some don't even have any numbers... they guess???. But... Neilson has integrated itself in our world with research to prove that users (unique) are spending on the internet one angle is an immense ( 7 hours a month! click here) amount of time on simple networking sites like Facebook. Not simple in the degree of structure and code, but in idea of how to converse and stay engaged with people thus with your brand.

Now that we live in a world that a user can reach a plethora of information within a few seconds, it is worth the time to set up as many social media sites as possible, set blogs, tweet, get your information/Brand out there! As I've said before social media is a HUGE add-on to the future of SEO tactics and can easily overwhelm the standardized dinosaur tactics of the past, but please still do them.

Want to learn more to benefit your knowledge in your workplace and how you approach projects, get caught up on the research. The Neilson links above will blow your mind on research, they have an interactive/digital angle called @plan, you can learn allot from the research they provide that is free. Another great resource is comScore, you can gain great research on the internet from multiple angles here as well. Research is a good start at a social media strategy, remember, there are dangers, you must be careful and do things such as moderate etc... some blogs and forums scenarios, NOT CENSOR... moderate. There are many social platforms that I suggest you check out, add your content/brand, skin it and add your content, daily... even hourly if you can, connect with the users as much as possible:

Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Wordpress, MySpace, Linkdin, Migente, BlackPlanet ... just to name a few or you can go here and look till your heart is content and see the site user base = Social Sites

Engage your brand in front of all these social networking eyeballs, utilize the social platforms to your advantage to advertise and to converse with like-minded and interesting people of the "world" for a just a little time a day, no print cost, no network fee's, hmmm sounds like we are on to something, actually we have been for a while. ( ;

Just my two cents...