Well, I mean after Social Media Examiner and all it’s related services (the Success Summits, The Networking Clubs, etc.)

What blogs, podcasts, video channels, ezines, etc., do you rely on so that you can do a better job in social media, reach a wider audience, engage at a deeper level, and do it all in less time?

how fun are these cartoons! thanks for sharing, Kristy @kc_kreative

I do my best to focus on one resource a month, so I have to say…Social Media Examiner. Not being a bottom kisser .

I have known about SME for quite some time but never thought to join this community.

To be fair to other resources out there in the internet universe, I have learned much from HubSpot.

@kc_kreative Thank you for mentioning Marketo. I have never heard of them until now. 

I love this forum.

Enjoy your day, ladies and Rich:)!

After the Social Media Summit in May, I jumped more into Youtube. Connecting any video you create to an article and products or services seems to meet many needs at one time.

I listened very closely to James Wedmore, bought his ebook and practiced the video idea. I then attended one of his free webinars that went over the use of Camtasia. WOW! I am using it on a trial basis now and purchasing it with Snagit in August. It is very easy to use. It is a wonderful teaching tool, sharing tool; perfect for professionally done slideshows. It even opened the door to another service for me to offer – Creating slideshows for wedding receptions.

 I think I am going to offer a free service to military families that want to create a slide show for people stationed away from home.

How this all works for me: I use Hubpages because it is a very engaging community and easy to share the youtube videos. My id on there is Bridalletter. I decide on a subject, develop the products or services (in anyone elses case, it would be on existing items), create an article and create a video.

I do have a blog and I will use it more than Hubpages eventually, but I need more time to develop a worthwhile blog. In the meantime, this combo is working very well.

I think what will help me with conversion is to utilize the email leads I have, by letting them know about new videos, articles, products and services. That email program is harder to use since the company changed, but I will figure it out this month!

@charlene-kingston — thanks for the list. What I have found is that I started building an RSS feed and it ended up taking over my life because just to skim through was taking me 30 minutes a day and I didn’t have time for it. Now I use Google Alerts ALOT. At allows me to focus on one or two topics and not get inundated. For me .. overwhelm is the greatest killer of productivity. So I use my SME and Google Alerts and I’m good to go.