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Article by Joanne Fritz at About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs on managing social media. She suggests "high activity on a limited # of networks." She uses Twitter (#1), Facebook, Google + (because it is growing rapidly and counts a lot toward SEO), and Hootsuite as her dashboard for social activity. Also recommends sharing reciprocity as indicated below: "I generally try to maintain a ratio of one for me to two or three of everyone else. One recent blog post suggested using the rule of quarters: 25% your content, 25% interaction, and 50% others' content. Of course, there is a reason for that. It's called reciprocity. When I promote someone else's blog posts or articles, that someone is likely to return the favor. When someone else endorses my work, that is much more effective than when I do it. My system for sharing revolves around my RSS Feed (I use Google Reader). The key to success with RSS is to get into the habit of checking it often. Otherwise it becomes a mess. "

Branding used to be purely for businesses, but that's not the case anymore. Personal branding has taken off and in recent years become quite popular, especially with young professionals. Personal branding is when you have a specific look, feel, or message associated with your name. Using social media, anyone can create their own personal brand.

Is this what we need to do on a regular basis with WLStudio? #EdChat http://www.facebook.com/EdchatPLN This is a different type of group - #Edchat is Twitter based. In their own words, "#Edchat is a hashtag discussion among educators from all over the world on education related topics. It happens every Tuesday at Noon EDT and 7PM EDT. To join us simply follow the #Edchat hashtag on Twitter!" The Facebook Page keeps users up on discussion topics, and provides additional resources.

Completely devastating article on how one's reputation can be lost (and maybe receovered with some redevelopment work online to defeat the Google algorithms) with a stupid prank captured and put online in a tweet or facebook page. Unbelievable and scary.

Amy-Mae Elliott names three advance tweet schedulers in this post from 2013--LaterBro, Future Tweets, and Twuffer--with equal endorsements.