{"id":4386,"date":"2012-07-06T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2012-07-05T23:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:35:24","slug":"building-your-social-media-profile-the-nice-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/07\/building-your-social-media-profile-the-nice-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Building your social media profile the nice way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/connecting_people_by_hand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4391\" title=\"connecting_people_by_hand\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/connecting_people_by_hand.jpg\" alt=\"build nice connections in social media\" width=\"194\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>In <a title=\"Subscribe to Business writing ideas from Tash Hughes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/subscribe.php\" target=\"_blank\">my latest newsletter<\/a>, on Facebook and Twitter, I have mentioned some\u00a0great advice I heard from <a title=\"Gihan Perera on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tiwtter.com\/GihanPerera\" target=\"_blank\">Gihan\u00a0Perera<\/a>\u00a0in a webinar\u00a0a couple of weeks ago. Namely,<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">do\u00a0something nice for someone on social media every day.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Such a simple concept with the potential benefit of making people feel good and remembering your positively, and\u00a0giving you inspiration to <a title=\"Learning social media rules\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/12\/learning-social-media-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">maintain your social media presence<\/a> (without being a sales pitch). It also makes you feel good, expands your creativity and shows your generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure of how to do this?<\/p>\n<h2>Nice social media activities<\/h2>\n<p>Here is a list\u00a0of things I have thought of, but I&#8217;m sure you could add more to this list&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>retweet interesting tweets<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"When commenting\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/05\/when-commenting\/\" target=\"_blank\">leave comments on blog posts<\/a>\u00a0you read (hint hint!)<\/li>\n<li>answer questions on LinkedIn, even if its\u00a0just your opinion rather than your expertise<\/li>\n<li>give someone an online testimonial (LinkedIn\u00a0is great for that, but why not try Facebook, twitter, Tumblr or their own website? Or maybe compliment them in many places!<\/li>\n<li>answer questions in a forum<\/li>\n<li>share the link to a great blog post or article<\/li>\n<li>write a blog post and link back to someone else&#8217;s blog or social media profile<\/li>\n<li>if you see an opportunity to promote someone, do it (for example, if a relevant site accepts recommendations or links, suggest someone else)<\/li>\n<li>give support to someone in a forum<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;pin&#8217; someone&#8217;s image or infographic<\/li>\n<li>introduce people in your networks (via email or through platforms like Facebook and Twitter)<\/li>\n<li>add a comment or favourite a YouTube video or a Slide Share presentation<\/li>\n<li>share\u00a0 a random link with your social media audience &#8211; show support for a charity, a good resource or someone who needs a boost<\/li>\n<li>forward an enewsletter to someone who would appreciate it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ve created a <a title=\"Nice social media activities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/pdfs\/nice_social_media_list.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pdf of these ideas<\/a> but I will update it next week when I have more ideas added to the list &#8211; share your ideas as a comment and I&#8217;ll include your name with your ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TashWord\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/images\/tash_twitter_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Tash &amp; Word Constructions on Twitter\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/word-constructions?trk=fc_badge\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.linkedin.com\/scds\/common\/u\/img\/webpromo\/btn_cofollow_badge.png\" alt=\"Word Constructions on LinkedIn\" width=\"158\" height=\"27\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Word-Constructions\/194517077251419\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/images\/f_logo.gif\" alt=\"Tash &amp; Word Constructions on Facebook\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest newsletter, on Facebook and Twitter, I have mentioned some\u00a0great advice I heard from Gihan\u00a0Perera\u00a0in a webinar\u00a0a couple of weeks ago. Namely, do\u00a0something nice for someone on social media every day. Such a simple concept with the potential benefit of making people feel good and remembering your positively, and\u00a0giving you inspiration to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1425,1090],"tags":[444,1531,1532,1530],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-communications","category-social-media","tag-ideas","tag-nice","tag-profile","tag-spcial-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}