By: Joan Damico

Joan Damico — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:29:42 +0000

I like your comment about companies being big with bad social media marketers or small with good ones… so true. But honestly, I wasn’t sure what to do with the rest of your post. It felt a little like spam, but I admire your tenacity at building a unique multi-cultural social media community. So I posted it. Good luck with your venture. If your KdL group is working in B2B, you may want to join our B2B Social Media group on LinkedIn. Thanks again, Saul!

By: Saul Fleischman

Saul Fleischman — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:49:16 +0000

Its still a bullhorn, they’re using. Actually, I believe who the SMM responsibles are in the company matter more than the “large-and-powerfulness” of the company. In other words, theycould be big, with a bad marketer, or small with a good one, and this is what matters, shapes their focus and message, not just amplification.

We talk about all this, in KdL. Saul Fleischman/OsakaBentures & KdL Group:

1. The sharing of news and ideas on SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING (SMM) and the use
of SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (SNS) (such as MIXI, Twitter, Facebook, SKYPE,
the new open-source portals, etc.) for actual corporate needs – like sales,
consumer response to company practices, new product-launches, recalls, etc.;
2. A secondary concern, of lesser importance, is that most of us in this
group are interested in face-to-face networking with fellow KdL members, such as informal meet-ups, hanami party, etc. I do this already.
3. Last concern, of the least significance: everyone is free and welcome to comment/message/start discussions in Japanese or English. Some members have
limited Japanese ability; that is their problem. We support Japanese users who prefer to input and speak in Japanese.
3a. A final word on focus: a request to join is required, and a message to the moderator, indicating a connection/residence in Japan, and also interest in social media marketing (SMM).
3b. See the discussion that begins with “NEW IN THE
GROUP? Introduce yourself here. We all should….” If you would, please do introduce yourself, perhaps note your interest in SMM, f2f networking, maybe share an idea or suggestion, and do it in either J or E. Whichever lets
you think/type faster. Please, thus, do not launch a separate discussion for self-introduction.

Please be active in discussions, and please help get the word out about this group to people with interest in SNS/SMM usage for business / business people of Kansai, and traveling often to Kansai. THANK YOU. I put many hours into this, and expect all of us to share in the benefits of my time by networking with real people better, right in Kansai, and also worldwide, and sharing insights into SMM/SNS for business.

Social Media Marketing/Networking Group: Kansai de LinkedIn
http://bit.ly/9PFJ1N
TWITTER/SPROUTER/WordPress Blog/Facebook/GREE/MIXI/MySpace: osakasaul

Best regards,

Saul Fleischman / KdL

By: Joan Damico

Joan Damico — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:03:03 +0000

As a follow on, my colleague @SkepticGeek found this interesting post by Mark Drapeau,
“Social Media in Isolation is Useless to Government, to Business, and to You”. http://markdrapeau.posterous.com/social-media-in-isolation-is-useless-to-gover

I like the section on “thin relationships.”

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