Symeon, I'm curious whether these companies are retail, manufacturing, services, or ??? I'm also curious whether their presence there is driven by you, or driven by their business model?
Not knowing geographically where you are, please pardon my references to U.S. retail stores. I'm not prone to visit Walmart or Best Buy because they have a Facebook presence, or because they have coupons advertised there-in. IF (and that is a big IF) they have the product I seek at a price I'm willing to pay, I'll visit the store; I'm not a coupon/rebate shopper. I'm not going to join Facebook or Twitter to follow the local news or television personalities, Amazon, my favorite deodorant, my preferred shampoo, and the like. I'm not planning on joining Facebook or Twitter to follow Rocket Software or their staff. Part of why I will not is due to my privacy and security concerns, and the abuses taken by these sites. Sure, you can try to harden your presence there, but, in the end, the appearance of control and hardening is weakened by the site usage agreements they change next month. Vendors that I am involved with have my E-mail address; I figure if there is something I need to know, they'll tell me directly; if not, it will be posted on their web site. I don't have the time to visit a half-dozen (or more) places to get reliable and authoritative information regarding product news, staff updates, information for a problem I'm trying to solve, and so-on. The more places I have to look, the more time I have lost, and I question the accuracy or relevancy of whatever I seek when I find it on a social site and nowhere else. So I'm interested in what is driving the socialization of the commercialization process - is it a "fit" for all companies? Is it a fit for those companies wanting name recognition, or in the retail space wanting to attract more sales? What drove the companies with which you are involved go the socialization route? Having done it for one of the companies, did you drive it for the others? How do you gauge the success (or failure) of your presence there? How did you balance the desire (may be need, but...) to be on these web sites with the security and privacy concerns the company may have had? Bob Wyatt -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:31 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Social Networks for MV Every company I am involved in has a facebook/linkedin/twitter account and we keep them updated regularly - it is essential in modern business marketing to do this. -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: 15 March 2013 22:12 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Social Networks for MV I'm on a mini campaign to make more MV colleagues aware of the benefits of using Twitter and other social media. Everyone is welcome to visit my blog on the topic and to comment here or there. http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/03/socialmv1.html Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2240 / Virus Database: 2641/5677 - Release Date: 03/15/13 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
