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Get Rich Quick with Web 2.0 (Part 1): Network & Chat at the Watercooler – A How-To Guide on LinkedIn and Typing (I mean, Twittering)

I’m simply boggled by the multitudes of articles out there that are dedicated to teaching people how to use “social media 2.0.”  If people take the time to sign up for the site, enter their name, their e-mail, create a password, verify that they’re human(ness)…don’t you think they should be smart enough to know how to use the website?

Judging by the literature that’s out there, it doesn’t look like it.  Instead, it looks like marketing professionals need to learn how to use these tools for marketing.  Human resource professionals need to learn how to use these tools for sourcing and recruiting candidates.  PR professionals need to learn how to use these tools for feeding information.  And, the casual, narcissistic user needs to learn how to strategically gather more followers, connections, or fans while staying true to his or her casual, narcissistic self.  (Note:  a few of those blog authors would learn a few things if their links were a little more user friendly, don’t you think?  It’s a little lesson we learned awhile ago thanks to evil beet!)

Therefore, in this series of articles, nonpretentious will be your meta guide through the guides as we take a look at what the “pros” can teach us on how to use these so-called “social” media sites…the first two we attack?  Well, obviously LinkedIn & Twitter! Continue reading…

how to kiss.

if…

you were a (sexually) experienced 13-year-old giving your inexperienced 13-year-old friend tips on how to kiss his/her first boy/girl, what would you say?

how-to: post anonymously (step by step – in pictures)

step 1: you will receive link in e-mail.

for demonstration, i sent an e-mail to melissa at commonvisionllc dot com

step 2: you will be asked to sign to Blogger.

step 3: Assuming you do not have a google account, click on create an account.

step 4: i signed up using the e-mail address that my invite was sent to – melissa at commonvisionllc dot com. i picked a password and a display name. as you can see, i picked the display name – “anonymous poster” i accepted the terms of service & pressed continue.

step 5: back to the beginning but now for those users who did not have a google account and/or did not want to use that google account…now you can sign in with the e-mail address that you entered on the previous page – (note: melissa at commonvisionllc dot com is *also* where i sent my invite!) – with the password that i just created.

step 5a: this is also where i enter my display name – “anonymous poster”

step 6: the dashboard. this is like blogger’s homepage. you see your sign-in name at the top right of the screen and the blogs this user name contributes to/is affiliated with/owns/manages in the middle column. (note: my sign-in name is only affiliated with The Common Vision Insider so only that shows up).

step 7: we have a hidden display name (anonymous poster (see: 5a)) but now we’re going to edit our profile to hide our e-mail address from everyone (people who contribute to the blog, people who manage the blog, *everyone*). click edit profile on the right-hand side.

step 8: Edit user profile. Under privacy, I unclick share my profile. Under identity, my username remains melissa at commonvisionllc dot com and this e-mail address is what i’ll use to sign in.

step 8a: Under e-mail address, however, i delete melissa at commonvisionllc dot com and enter my e-mail as trial at commonvisionllc dot com. this way, the administrators of the blog can only see this e-mail address – NOT the original e-mail address to which they sent my invite. I keep my display name the same (see: step 5a).

step 8b: i save this.

step 9: this is how i show up to administrators and other posters to the website. my display name is “anonymous poster” and my e-mail address is NOT the e-mail address that received the invite to contribute but the new e-mail address that i entered in step 8b (trial at commonvisionllc dot com).

step 10: this is not really a step but a comparison.

notice: step 9 – the display name and e-mail are completely different than the original e-mail address and/or previous google account.

in comparison: here is how Common Vision shows up.

any questions?