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Posted March 22nd, 2009 by Hawksdomain | No Comments

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Confessions of an Introvert

Posted July 3rd, 2008 by Hawksdomain | No Comments

The other day I read a very interesting post from Mark Dykeman's Broadcasting Brain that asked "Is blogging for the introverted soul?" This subject hit very close to home for me, as I am the most introverted and shy person I know. Sometimes I even have problems being around people who I have known since I was in diapers!

This post by Mark has inspired me to publicly explore a bit on why I am involved with social networking and blogging. This is something I have been doing quite a bit of thinking about my introverted soul and how it has interacted with the Plurk vs. Twitter excitement of the past few weeks.

I had plurked and plurked and got the holy grail of the emoticons, I had the 10 invited friends and even greater than 50 Karma and then the algorithm changed and I was supposed to continue plurking like I did at first if I wanted to maintain my status,Thought perhaps I should make an appearance - I think I over plurked and got mega burnout! :) which does make sense, but people were even being penalized for sleeping at night, there should be some leeway, shouldn't there? What was I going to do when I went away for vacation to Disney World in September? What about the fact that I don't really want to chat all the time because I have so many other things to keep me occupied not to mention the fact that I am so unbelievably shy and just hate putting myself out there in such an open forum.

So anyhow now a few more days have passed and I was checking out the latest in the Twitterverse and saw that there is another new kid in town, Indenti.ca. I'm thinking that this might just be what I needed to get outta my funk - a new shiny! ;) Odd one, huh? Aside from not having all the birdies and being so blue, it really looks a lot like Twitter.  There is one difference, it is new. The page loads a bit slowly, but so far I've not heard anything about crashes or pages not loading at all. Another thing to consider is that everyone is not using it yet. It's still in early adopter phase.

So in a matter of less than two hours, I have gone from avoiding social media because of the Plurk burnout I experienced to signing up for new services and even Twittering and Stumbling like normal.

Now although I am finally finishing up this post that I started almost a week ago, I can say that my outlook has changed in the last couple of hours. It isn't that there is a new shiny out there to play with, because I have gone back to the old familiars that I had been ignoring for the past week or two. It's just that this new shiny has been able to remind me why I like playing with all of these social networking sites. I may be an introvert in real life, but I do like connecting with other people and doing so online is so much easier to get the courage to talk to the popular kids. I just need to remember that no matter how pretty the next new shiny is that comes along, with all things, moderation is the key! ;)

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Why do you social network?

Posted June 7th, 2008 by Hawksdomain | 4 Comments

We read daily about how social networking is something that companies large and small need to be actively pursuing because it is where the consumers can be found. After an experience that I have had with a fellow social networker over the past two days, I am suddenly wondering if social networking by consumers is as popular as I am hearing.

Yes, sites like Facebook and MySpace are both common sites among the average social networker (especially high school and college students), but how many of your every day friends and family who are not somehow involved in social media marketing are really involved in sites such as FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, etc? I'm going to guess not too many. In fact, I can only think of two contacts that I have that are involved in social networking and not involved in social marketing.

I am active enough in social networking sites that I have made the acquaintance of several social media marketers and SEO gurus. I look to these experienced marketers to bounce ideas off of involving this blog and I enjoy sharing things and joking around with them as much as I do with my non marketing friends.

I do read about social marketing and have even been known to give my two cents from the viewpoint of a consumer. However, in no way, shape, or form am I a marketer. I have two blogs, including this one that is about being social on the web, but I honestly do not care if I have one reader or one million. If either of my blogs become popular that will mean more work for me and I am already working a full time job and have other interests outside of social networking. I live paycheck to paycheck to make sure I have internet access, I can't afford for high bandwidth to become an issue, so honestly I hope that none of the sites I own and play with get very popular.

So I'm just wondering are there other people out there doing this just for fun? If so, I'd really love to hear from you, please leave a comment! And for you marketers out there, what do you think about this?

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Work in Progress

Posted May 29th, 2008 by Hawksdomain | 6 Comments

Last week I wrote about the name change for my little ol' blog, Social on the Web.  I had some suggestions and traded several emails with a few different people, and I am excited to announce that I am in the process of moving Social on the Web over to a self hosted site.

Additionally, I have three people who have agreed to help me with blogging!  We have picked a theme, although I'm waiting to surprise those who were helping me narrow down the theme choices.

Our topic, of course, will be social media, social networking, personal branding, and the like.  Knowing that I am only good for one post every week or two, I cannot expect more from the others, so if there is anyone else who might be interested in participating in this new blogging adventure, please let me know through the comments, via Twitter, via StumbleUpon, or email!

Before I wrap this up, I want to give a very special thanks to everyone doing so much to help me with this project:  dOgBoi who came up with the idea and has agreed to be a blogger, GemStar38 and Murple who have also agreed to be bloggers, and Timbury who is helping out with the hosting!

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Introducing SocialOnTheWeb.com

Posted May 23rd, 2008 by Hawksdomain | 4 Comments


Social metro in Paris

Originally uploaded by baraka27

A while ago I bought a domain name and never did anything with it: SocialOnTheWeb.com Well today something possessed me to do something and I linked my domain to my blog that is currently hosted on WordPress.com. My ultimate goal is to get a hosting account so I can have a real WordPress blog with all the neat bells and whistles that WordPress.com won't let ya have!

So, now this blog is more than just about Hawksdomain but something that hopefully more and more people will be able to relate to. For anyone who is already linked to this blog, no worries - I will be paying the extra $10 a year to make sure you can still access the old URLs!

Plus, I am hoping to be able to talk a friend or two into writing some posts here too... That way, hopefully it won't be quite as long in between posts!

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