Are you a connector Pt 2- Make today Reconnect Day?

In my previous post I talked about connecting people in your network to each other and seeing where that leads.

If you use Twitter you will be aware of  #followfriday  where
tweeters list the people they think others on Twitter should “follow” .
It’s similar to my suggestion above but in the main it is really only
giving people a “name check”..

It is easy to forget that social media works best when there is a
conversation. Having a good list of contacts on Facebook,Linkedin and
Twitter is valuable – what is even more valuable is what opportunities
being connected throws up.

There might be people you added to your contacts some months ( maybe
even years) ago but who you have not been in touch with since.  How
about making today Reconnect Day?

A couple of suggestions on how to do this

  • why not look at who tweeted the top 5 tweets in one of your lists  (
    assuming your lists include people you know …but even then might be a
    chance to get to know them!)
  • check your updates stream on Linkedin and send a message to the
    first few people you see there – commenting on whatever update that made
    them appear in your stream anyway
  • see who is saying what on Facebook and join in the conversation
  • flick through your friends/contacts/followers and if see who you
    have not heard from for a while…and then drop them a note or write on
    their wall or tweet..

Take 5 minutes – 15 minutes – whatever time you have spare and see what happens.

And please share what happens.

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