
Rod Stewart has a blues tune that embodies a good truth about what works in social media: “Ya gotta treat me baby, just like I treat you.” Whether you do marketing or not, I’d encourage anyone to take a retrospective look at their social media footprint for how balanced they were in pushing their own content vs. passing on other people’s content.
As I look back over what I used twitter for the past few months, I hope I’ve practiced this truth. So here are the tweets from @heyglenns for spring/summer 2012:
| date | Tweet |
| Jun 26 | Marketers might feel like Morpheus was talking to them when he offered the choice of taking the “Red pill” or… http://t.co/KZCfVbjE |
| Jun 23 | comScore reports there were 11.7B Google searches in US in May. That’s 4.5 searches/second. So why do we hesitate to spend on search mktg? |
| Jun 21 | Do you have marketing designed to nurture sales leads? You should and I’ll show you why. Sales opportunities are… http://t.co/iQJfJ2rt |
| Jun 13 | Thx @daverooneyca Enjoyed interchange of wonderful ideas with @phanschke @jleask #AgileOttawa |
| Jun 9 | @bobledrew calls out the elephant in the room: you write online so you’ll get read (& SEO’d) #pab2012 |
| Jun 6 | 66% of marketing executives said the biggest challenge to producing leads is creating content, according to 2011 study by @juntajoe |
| Jun 3 | Most of the people who are good at online marketing work hard to keep up in this always-changing field. As an… http://t.co/faRuhfQI |
| May 31 | Seeing what’s doing @mercurygrove this morning. This is the only place in Ottawa to see epic hackers at work. |
| May 26 | Happy 7th birthday YouTube. It’s hard today to imagine the Internet without you. |
| May 24 | Had a great discussion with @DiFrancescoLyd on different kinds of marketing |
| May 21 | You can try staying ahead by spending time studying the future, or you could be one of those who creates it. |
| May 7 | It’s tricky when marketing a product to know how much detail to give. Give too little and the prospect thinks you… http://t.co/GD8WVZg2 |
| Apr 24 | Finding out the latest advances in Search Marketing & PPC this week in Toronto. |
| Apr 24 | #branham300 congrats to @mitel for being a top 20 Cdn tech company. |
| Apr 22 | @JillWhalen on Google’s (Not Provided) hijinx: “think of the keywords they do show us [in GA] as simply a sample” http://t.co/Sd2EadFU |
| Apr 17 | Great snapshot of the desperation that can set in when you have to create content. Thx Tom Fishburne. http://t.co/2JgcAoNG |
| Apr 17 | @conrey Best #dontsellmebro line: We’ve put in enough effort internally to make you feel like we know who you are even if you don’t know us. |
| Apr 13 | @Andrew_Milne Being lean & mean has nothing to do with being a startup or in a conglomerate |
| Apr 11 | Silicon Valley symposium awards Calgary’s eThor with “Most Innovative Startup on the Planet” http://t.co/lZhixQtd |
| Apr 9 | Tomorrow night @thecodefactory Students & Startups http://t.co/Ph81XvfL |
| Apr 3 | Spring challenge: help someone with no expectation of help in return. good deeds are contagious. |
| Apr 2 | Love the Lean Startup reference in this commercial: http://t.co/eFlFHDqx by Dollar Shave Club. |