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If I Started Today
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Okay, so you’ve heard from someone that this social media and social networking stuff is great and you should get involved, and it’s really going to help you out. Maybe it will help you in the economic downturn. Maybe you have heard how you can use Twitter for business. But there’s a lot to it all.


Where would you start? What would come first? How might you think about getting out there and joining in on the experience?



If I Started Today



Here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll build three different scenarios out, and give you the starting points for what I’d do with social media if I were in these steps. Try to extrapolate them out to your profession or your need. If you really want to have fun with this post, take what I’ve started here, and write your own post for your vertical or condition, and then be sure to share the ideas with us here, so we can go to your site and check it out. (We’ll even be able to visit via trackbacks, if you link back to the original post).



First Platform: A Blog


No matter what, the very first piece of social media real estate I’d star

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Krishanna,
Nov 24, 2008
Louis Gray makes some great points about starting out in social media
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