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When hearing about Twitter, Facebook, and others do your eyes glaze over or do you get excited about the prospect of learning how to network more with others? Whatever way it is, you need to know about the Social Media Success Summit 2009.  Well known names are involved with this event and already over 500 people booked to attend!  In Chris G’s own words:

Win Tickets to Social Media Success Summit 2009!

All around the world people are very excited about Social Media Success Summit 2009 — the first major online event dedicated to helping you successfully market your business with sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. More than 500 people have already registered.

Now you have the exclusive chance to win two valuable seats to the event for no cost!

Why not click here to find out all about it?

I would love to attend this event and get to learn from the experts and apply even more to what I’m doing.  I think attending an event like this will probably short-cut the process of reading and reading and reading some more to keep up with what’s happening and in a relatively short space of time I will have learnt a great deal from those in the know.

By the way - if I win their contest I get two tickets for the summit.  If you’d like to join me with my ’spare’ ticket then please leave a comment below saying why you should win with me.

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It’s amazing how a new networking tool can soon become addictive, if you let it!  Where once I thought I only needed one blog and now own many (on different topics), it would seem the same applies to Twitter profiles, depending on the audience or followers you want to attract.  I now have 3 profiles. The first one is about me, what I do, what I’m interested in and who I’m following. The second relates specifically to the Virtual Assistant industry and is relatively new. The third is about my passion of photography and is slowly growing a list of followers plus I’m following many.  Each has a profile and image that matches what the profile relates to - mainly to keep me from getting mixed up when posting or replying. Because with multiple profiles I needed to find a platform to manage them without logging in and out constantly, so enter Splitweet.com which is useful but doesn’t automatically choose the right profile to post with so you do need to keep watch. But I believe it’s relatively new so is sure to grow and have enhancements over time. It does work a treat!

In the process I’m meeting lots of new people and learning new things, and having a bit of fun with it too.

So, enters a new blog which I’ll be co-authoring with another lady who is very conversant with Twitter. I’ll introduce her soon when she’s ready. In the meantime you can get a preview of the site that is sure to grow quite quickly. It’s kind of a play on of the words Twitter and Dictionary and is meant to be a resource on all things about Twitter.  It’s called The Twitionary.

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Picture this scene.

You’re busy concentrating on something in the office or perhaps having a conversation with someone, but only half concentrating as you’re dialling a phone number to make a call.  The phone rings a couple of times, it’s answered and you finish the conversation you were having with the other person, or perhaps finish your train of thinking and then realise that there is a beep and you were listening (well, only half listening) to a voicemail message.  You leave your message and hang up.

A couple of days pass and you realise that person hasn’t returned your call.  How rude.  So you shoot them an email (or DM them via Twitter) and ask them if they got your message?

Their response is they didn’t.  The person you were calling checks their phone logs or voicemail and there is no message from you.  What did actually happen?

Chances are you rang a wrong or old number but because you weren’t listening to what took place at the other end after it stopped ringing you can’t even be sure who was on the voicemail message or if it was a blanket recorded message used by Telco services.

Ever happened to you?  mmm, thought so. I believe this happens to too many people and it’s a sign of busy-ness and trying to get several things done at once. Trouble is we end up causing delays for ourselves simply because we weren’t paying attention at the time we made the original call.

So, what are you going to do on your next phone call?  Listen did you say?  Thought so.

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Many of you know that I’ve renewed my passion for photography and have set up a new site and template to display my photos but there are a few things that just won’t work the way I want it to.  Enter the blog forums - great avenue for learning from others who have a bit more experience than you - or me!

I belong to two active blog forums which I find very worthwhile being a member of.  I am able to offer assistance and provide answers and I’m also able to ask questions and learn from others.  Great way to network and learn about blogging too.

So, if you have challenges tweaking a template or not understanding something else, why not drop by a bloggers forum and participate and learn?

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