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Facebook is the Hub for your Personal Brand
Chris Brogan poses a lot of questions on his Twitter feed. Some I answer, some I don’t - a lot make me think. Two of questions recently were a wake-up call - “What’s your personal brand?” and “ ... Continue reading »
Chris Brogan poses a lot of questions on his Twitter feed. Some I answer, some I don’t - a lot make me think. Two of questions recently were a wake-up call - “What’s your personal brand?” and “ ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
What I like about Ning different than facebook AS A HUB is that Ning is modular. Ning is a top-to-bottom platform you can control from how people register (either locked down or "invite your friends"), and that all the modular content allows you to create a multi-faceted brand.
It also (here's the big part) lets you use RSS to get your various content pieces out to the various places where you might want to have your content moved and brought.
By comparison, I would say this: Facebook is where the bodies are. It's harder to build a group in Ning than in Facebook, insofar as there's critical mass there. But then, once you have people swarmed into your profile, that doesn't give you a platform unless people watch their news stream shrewdly.
If you build a group in FB, there are social norms about not messaging the group very often. And without RSS, it requires that a Facebook user (oh, and you limit your audience to Facebook) go and seek out your group to see if anything new happened there.
FB does a few things well. It allows you to build rich profile data, including using 3rd party applications to build out how people might perceive you. And, it has the masses.
But for a HUB for your digital identity? If you're not thinking your blog is that place, I'd fight for Ning on this. And if you want a tour around Ning, I'll gladly show you.
One last thing. Your About page doesn't tell me your name (I know who you are, but I'm saying a visitor doesn't), nor does it tell me how to reach you outside of your blog. : )
Thanks for a thought-provoking post.
1 year ago
I appreciate your thoughts and hope to read more.