Comments on: Breaking Out of Your Shell: How to Overcome Social Media Shyness http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/07/06/breaking-out-of-your-shell-how-to-overcome-social-media-shyness/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:46:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Quiet Marketing: Silent, Yet Powerful http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/07/06/breaking-out-of-your-shell-how-to-overcome-social-media-shyness/#comment-323476 Quiet Marketing: Silent, Yet Powerful Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:01:50 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=15340#comment-323476 [...] (link from one site to others.) If you’re still uncomfortable with social media, break out of your shell first. If you read WebWorkerDaily on a regular basis, you’ll be familiar with most of the [...] [...] (link from one site to others.) If you’re still uncomfortable with social media, break out of your shell first. If you read WebWorkerDaily on a regular basis, you’ll be familiar with most of the [...]

]]> By: andy http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/07/06/breaking-out-of-your-shell-how-to-overcome-social-media-shyness/#comment-320212 andy Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:40:22 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=15340#comment-320212 Ms. Roque addresses an area you rarely see mentioned in writing -- how shy people get started in social networking. Often, it's not the technology that stops people from taking part in social networking, it's the psychological barriers. Just like learning to swim, taking the first dive is the hardest. Most articles and books deal with the technological barriers better than the psychological ones. As for Souldrifter's comment about privacy, I agree that one should be prepared to protect your private information. But his comment about not putting your business info on LinkedIn is off the mark, since that is the purpose of LinkedIn: to make business (and social) contacts. Imagine going to a live networking event and refusing to give our your business card, maintaining that it is private information. Actually, on LinkedIn, you don't need to give out an address or an email address publicly, so it is MORE private than a networking breakfast or a Lion's Club lunch. You can protect yourself from scams and identity theft online and still be open to contacts with others. Also, as the article mentions, doing so online can be easier than visiting a roomful of strangers in a restaurant or meeting room. Another strategy to meet new contacts on LinkedIn (and other networking sites) is to join groups of like-minded professionals where you can share info, opinions and links to articles and respond to that smaller group, rather than answering questions in front of the entire LinkedIn universe. You can also see who is active in the group and is likely to enjoy a private message or invitation on LinkedIn. Groups are much less threatening, IMO, than larger settings. Andy Ms. Roque addresses an area you rarely see mentioned in writing — how shy people get started in social networking. Often, it’s not the technology that stops people from taking part in social networking, it’s the psychological barriers. Just like learning to swim, taking the first dive is the hardest. Most articles and books deal with the technological barriers better than the psychological ones.

As for Souldrifter’s comment about privacy, I agree that one should be prepared to protect your private information. But his comment about not putting your business info on LinkedIn is off the mark, since that is the purpose of LinkedIn: to make business (and social) contacts. Imagine going to a live networking event and refusing to give our your business card, maintaining that it is private information. Actually, on LinkedIn, you don’t need to give out an address or an email address publicly, so it is MORE private than a networking breakfast or a Lion’s Club lunch.

You can protect yourself from scams and identity theft online and still be open to contacts with others. Also, as the article mentions, doing so online can be easier than visiting a roomful of strangers in a restaurant or meeting room.

Another strategy to meet new contacts on LinkedIn (and other networking sites) is to join groups of like-minded professionals where you can share info, opinions and links to articles and respond to that smaller group, rather than answering questions in front of the entire LinkedIn universe. You can also see who is active in the group and is likely to enjoy a private message or invitation on LinkedIn. Groups are much less threatening, IMO, than larger settings.

Andy

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]]> By: Souldrifter http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/07/06/breaking-out-of-your-shell-how-to-overcome-social-media-shyness/#comment-320092 Souldrifter Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:14:44 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=15340#comment-320092 It's interesting that you don't take into account that some of us find the so-called social networking sites a big gaping privacy hole. Nothing like creating your linked in profile and telling the entire world where you work and what the address is... On the one hand, people complain about lack of privacy and government spying, yet on the other, we willfully throw all our employment and personal information up on the internet for anyone to access. I'll never understand this. It’s interesting that you don’t take into account that some of us find the so-called social networking sites a big gaping privacy hole. Nothing like creating your linked in profile and telling the entire world where you work and what the address is…

On the one hand, people complain about lack of privacy and government spying, yet on the other, we willfully throw all our employment and personal information up on the internet for anyone to access.

I’ll never understand this.

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