Communication – Personal Development – Business

Part of managing success is using all communication tools available. There are hundreds of on-line social networks to which you can connect. Are you confused? Which ones are best for you?

If you are not twittering - start today

Then layer on the networking meetings, up close and personal time with people, and you can be in the down draft of the networking typhoon. It’s not just the Generation Y that are building businesses using these tools.  Here are a couple of my suggestions:

Twitter.com: A free social networking service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts that are up to 140 characters long) via SMS (small message service) instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. The site has become very popular in only a few months — a lot of people are watching it. I like using it because it is just fun.  The following examples gives you a great example.

Twitter for Business Success:
Receipt for successful Twitter application:
1 Filipino marrying into a Korean family
1 taco truck Goliath Cater Craft
1 scoop Korean Taco
1 tortilla
1 RockSugar chef Roy Choi
A dash of friends and family to blog, brand and Twitter.
Mix in the Internet Social Networks and you have a delicious application of using Social Networks to establish and run a successful business. Where will this unique taco truck park next? Only the tech-savvy know for sure.

How it started: After a night of bar hopping, Mark Manguera was sitting with his 25-year-old sister-in-law, Alice Shin. His wife Caroline was already sleeping soundly. Mark was munching on a Carne Asada taco, and it dawned on him, “Why not put Korean barbecue on a taco?” He told friends and family of his epiphany and put the magical receipt together.

The result: The Kogi Korean BBQ taco truck. (@kogibbq on Twitter) After celebrating a November 20, 2008 soft opening, the roving cater craft has emerged as a social-networking juggernaut, drawing 300 to 800 people each time it parks. This may occur several times in an evening and launching a mushrooming cyber-hippie movement affectionately referred to as “Kogi kulture.”

Here is another idea:

Ning.com 100,000 users. Create your own social network for anything.
An online service to create, customize, and share a social network.
Example: Phil Singleton, John Driscoll & Company

Get a group started today!

Phil started a group using www.Ning.com, Arizona Excellence Group and hand selects whom he wants to invite.  Luckily, I am part of the group.  Within six months he had 60+ people in the group.  They are a tight knit group and continue to refer each other for business opportunities, support, problem solving and also work with each other. This is an excellent example of using social networking for business development.  What group could you form?  Please post a comment on how you are using these social networking tools!

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Tags: communications, networking, social networking by Marsha
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The question is this – at what age should a person be responsible for the consequences of their choices and actions? I believe the answer is early teens. Have you even done something really stupid.  Boy I have!  But think about how training on personal responsibility relates to children’s development, grades, promiscuity, friend they chose, movies they see, games they play, etc.
In a statement released to The Associated Press, the swimmer, Michael Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games validated the authenticity of the exclusive picture published Sunday by the tabloid News of the World.

Phelps said: “I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.”
How sad that this young man, at 23, has jeopardized everything he has worked so hard to receive.  The millions of dollars in endorsements, and the global role model position he assumed in Beijing. Stupid? I think so. Youthful? Perhaps.
This is an excellent lesson to understand that your actions become your outcomes – either positive or negative. You chose and no one else does.  It is all about personal responsibility, self-awareness and internal communication. The focus must be on not becoming a spoiled brat, have an entitlement attitude or arrogant.

Lesson: If you have a job, or are looking for one, don’t do stupid stuff.
In the current research I am conducting, leaders told me what is important when hiring and promoting people.
Stupid:
•    Negative comments
•    Arrogance and self absorbed
•    Withdrawn and don’t participate
•    Lack of tact
•    Unprofessional appearance
•    Lack of Experience
•    Poor Skill Set
•    Entitlement
•    Unprepared and don’t research

Not Stupid:
•    Personal Responsibility
•    Enthusiastic
•    Initiative
•    Experience
•    Professional dress
•    Engaging
•    Maturity
•    Articulate
•    Confident

So what do you think? At what age should a person be responsible for the consequences of their choices?  What are the lessons you’ve learned that help you keep your position stable?
Ps: Now if you do nothing else with this message, you must watch this video from YouTube.

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Tags: accountability, role model, stupid consequences by Marsha
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