“Social media is more focused on the individual, whereas forums are focused on the community itself.“

“You can develop into an authority based on your contributions to an online community.“

“The Driving force behind a community has to be the people responsible for the forum…without the passion it will not be as good as it can be.“

“If there is a passion in a community, it can work in a forum setup.“

“Social Media is the ability to connect with like-minded people.”

“Twitter is making people better communicators.”

“There is a requirement to stay interesting with visibility that impacts your business.”

“The digital divide is much less prevalent than it once was, but a lot of how [we make progress] will depend on who is the next person in the White House.”

"I went on to Twitter and I said, ‘I just lost a job opportunity but I think they want me to be a consultant now…’ One of my followers saw my Tweet and said, ‘Chris we’re looking for a social person, would you be interested?’"

"After I lost my job, I jumped on and did all the standard resumes, jumped on all the job sites, and started responding to all the jobs postings that I could find."

"Twitter is just a way for people to communicate with each other and get to know each other a little bit over time, which is the way you that you get to know your casual acquaintances."

"There is certainly an overlap between the people that follow me on Twitter or the people that are connected to me on LinkedIn and Facebook."

"I immediately saw Facebook as an opportunity to merge my two worlds combining the relationships and the technology/internet sides."

"Put content on your page that people can’t get anywhere else and create unique discussion groups. This is called stickiness. Once you are clear on your demographics and key words, you can target your market with social ads, and they’re very powerful and inexpensive."

"When you join a group, don’t just go in and plaster your link all over the place. There are certain protocols. Get in and listen to the vibe of the group and start contributing to conversations. Make it a part of your routine a couple of times a week and it will help people get a feel for who you are."

"Job Seekers should use Facebook with Strategic Transparency. When choosing what you are showing, remember you are sending these to your future employer. Would they want to hire you immediately? You are very visible and you never know who sees your profile."

"Everything we do with each other is about conversation."

"Social media is affecting all of us."

"Marketing is about matching your products and services with the people or companies who will get the most enjoyment, satisfaction, and value from them.."

"You can’t look at any individual activity anymore for a business within a given silo; you have to understand how it integrates with all the other things you’re doing."

"The broadcast model is broken; people are tired of being talked at."

"This is the Wild, Wild, West and you have to comport with how the gunslingers operate in that particular town."

"Social media builds community and it builds relationships with people."

"Twitter gets me a network that I never would have if I wasn’t using social media."

"If somebody’s an 800 pound gorilla and they sue you for copyright infringement…you’re not going to defend yourself, you’re just going to do whatever they tell you to do and go away."

"Social Media radically changed my business. (Kathleen Taylor)"

"Social Media became a part of who I am and what I’m about. (Ryan Coleman)"

"A social media profile is a window into who you are and what makes you tick. (Ryan Coleman)"

"You’re doing a great disservice to yourself by not having that kind of presence online. (Kathleen Taylor)"

"The Colonel is sorry he could not make the call himself — he actually enjoys being in the space and seeing what people are actually talking about and the Colonel, because he does have such a strong presence, is able to make a splash where he goes. Let’s just say the Colonel gets it." (Daniel Honigman)

"Social media can do a lot of things and I think some I suspected and some I found out more about as the project went on." (Bill Adee)

"If you are genuine and you keep that in mind with whatever you are doing, then I think the potential is there for social media to be powerful." (Daniel Honigman)

"Technology is technology is technology but people are ultimately the ones that make it work." (Bill Adee)

"That was the advantage of having Twitter, it helped the event create its own buzz. Every time someone signed up for the TWebinar, if they liked the idea, they would Tweet about it and then someone would say, ‘Well, what is a TWebinar?’ They would check it out and then they would sign up and so on and so forth." (Chris Brogan)

"By basically asking people to get on Twitter and to follow the speakers,to follow each other and to join in and follow the conversation happening on Twitter at the same time as the content, we’d hopefully get people to finally just go for it and get involved in social media." (David Alston)

"We ended up with about 1500 people signing up. So many that we actually had to create two TWebinars back to back." (David Alston)

"It is dramatically different when you feel the thing is really dynamic and you feel it is moving with you. It is definitely a different adrenaline experience to try to run everything live and deal with things as they come up, which was a lot more fun too." (Chris Brogan)

“The most important part of creating a LinkedIn profile is to intelligently flesh it out.“

“LinkedIn’s Summary and Specialties section allows you to use all the buzz words that are germane to your specific niche.“

“On LinkedIn, I get 15-20 profile visits a day from people I don’t know.“

“I’ve had dialogues with everyone that I’ve linked with before I’ve connected to them.“

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