Kyle With » Social Media

TEXTER – The Dexter Spoof

KyleWith — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:00:47 +0000

On of the folks I look up to in the online world is Amber MacArthur. She actually went to J-school was a fellow blogger here in Yellowknife. She is all across the web, creating and exploring new content. She is currently on CP24′s Webnation, Net@Night with another idol of my, Leo Laptore, and hosts her own show called CammandN. Anyways, the reason I am mentioning her is because she launched her first book today, title Powerfriending. It is all about networking in the online world. Along with her book, her partner and her made this amazing promo video, which is a parody of the opening of the TV show Dexter. Have a look.

Communicating With Who

KyleWith — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:54:14 +0000

One of the things I seem to do, is wander the websites of companies that claim to provide New Media or Social Media needs. It’s how I learn, I see what they are offer, how they are doing it, and what they say they can do. I’m far from being perfect myself, but it is something I’m passionate about and I want to master.
I have come to realize you have to sell yourself to potential clients. You need to prove to this client that you have the skills to help them. So the one statement I often read on these marketing companies sites is something like this, “Our team uses these sites and knows how to navigate them, use them and to reach those you need them to reach and build a relationship”. At that point I have to say “WAIT, I need to check this.”

Okay you claim your team uses these sites, like twitter, youtube, facebook page, etc, but for some reason I can’t seem to find them on any of these platforms. Well of course they have a Facebook Profile, who doesn’t. Facebook Profiles are only for your friends though, right? I consider myself a half decent Googler, so if I can’t find you, chances are you don’t exist. Which ultimately means you are lying. I’m not saying you can’t plan a social media strategy for a client, I’m sure anyone with a little bit of marketing skills can. What I’m more implying is that you tell me that you are, but aren’t. If you really are, LINK TO IT. I want to see @yourname. I want to see you communicating with people.

One of the biggest things I believe Traditional Marketing Companies get wrong it, Social Media is a 2-way street. You can’t just push you content at people, you have to talk to them. You are not using a mega-phone, your using a telephone.

Don’t be fake, be authentic. Oh by the way follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr.

What is it I do

KyleWith — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:30:50 +0000

Some may know, some may not. I will tell you a bit anyway. I do have my own business called With Media, William Thomas, which is the company behind YkOnline. It is classed as a media Internet company or something like that. When I applied for the business license it was difficult to describe to them then, what it would fall under, but anyways… I am about to apply for the SEED and BDIC funding from the GNWT. Which I may or may not get. In the application process one of the things I have to do, is describe what it is I do and whether or not it can generate enough revenue. This is kind of a funny coincidence because it seems to be a topic among some of us in the blogging realm. I will basically need to describe what blogging – YkOnline – is as well as Podcasting – I have plans to get into this more – and then some multimedia/website building stuff. Thanks to Megan I will use her blog post about explaining these things in plain english.

Either way this goes, it will be good to experience because for the first time since starting all these things, business, podcasting, blogging, I will actually have it down on paper what I do. Not only will it give others the knowledge of what I want to do, but it might give me the clarity and a new perspective of how I want to go about doing it.

Over the next couple day I will start writing all this up for the application and may share some of it here on this blog. To finish off I will leave you with this video, Podcasting in Plain English.

Episode 04: Radio Hosts & a Podcast Network

KyleWith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:20:23 +0000

Throughout the day I was pondering the topic should Radio Hosts be on twitter. I thought it out and wanted to record my thoughts on the matter, it was going to be great. I had several points to make and I even tweeted it and got other opinions from twitter. An hour later when it came time to record the show, I blanked. Another case of Thoughtless Kyle came up. So I was not able to talk about it as much as I wanted but still came up with a couple decent points, if that.

When I blanked I wanted to continue with the show, so I started talking about something I want to build in 2010. The With Media Network, a network of podcastes. I share a couple ideas I have so far and hope I can be successful in this adventure. In the back of my head, a very faint dream, would be to make blogging and podcasting my full time job. I know it would be a long shot, but it is something I really want to do and I think the north would like it.

What are your thoughts? I want to know!

[audio:http://www.kylewith.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/episode04.mp3|titles=Radio Hosts & Network]

The Internet, Explained

KyleWith — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:05:27 +0000

Lately I have been having trouble explaining what it is I do all the time online, I’m referring to YkOnline. How do you explain what a blog is to a person who doesn’t often go online? How do you convince them it is the way the world is moving?

I have also been doing some reading about the media shift and how content is delivered to us, rather than us going to find it, anyways that is not what I want to get into. What I want to get at is what I fellow blogger wrote about and possibly my solution. She wrote a post on how to explain Internet related things to people who don’t spend there days using them, like I do.

You can find the post here, and here is a taste of what you’ll find:

Another thing The Man despises is RSS. But you know what he loves? Automatic notifications. Yep, that’s right up his alley. So when you’re building your website that’s updated frequently, make sure people can get automatic notifications of all of the updates.

Comment to Twitter

KyleWith — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:30:55 +0000

When I started YkOnline I made the choice to create its own Twitter account. Mainly because at that time I thought twitter was the greatest thing invented and I was full on driving the bandwagon. Nowadays I’m not so sure that was a good idea, but that is a different post, for another time.

What I want to get at is a plugin I quickly installed for YkOnline. What the plugin does is, every time a reader comments on a post on the blog, it then gets sent to the YkOnline Twitter account. The way I have it set up, its says “[NEW COMMENT] LINK TO COMMENT”.

The reasoning for doing this makes sense, to me anyways. The way I saw it was, I needed more content for the YkOnline Twitter account and I wanted it to always be related to Yellowknife/YkOnline. So by doing this I was letting the followers know of discussion going on back on the site. I saw nothing wrong with this. I figured one of the reasons people followed YkOnline on Twitter was because they wanted to be updated about new posts and new content and I see comments as content.

So for a couple months I didn’t think anything of it and didn’t do anything. Then one of my friends sent me a message directly about it, I guess it was the first time they had noticed it. At first I didn’t know if they liked it or not, which got me thinking about it. Was the way I was doing it actually spamming people! I sure hope not. This friends then told me they liked the idea and agreed with my reasoning behind it.

For those of you who use twitter or social networking sites as well as blog what is your take this situation? What you ever consider using a plugin like this?

Pay for a Tweet

KyleWith — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:23:24 +0000

I was listening to an interesting conversation about Twitter Japan. Reports are they might be starting to charge for tweets. So what I got from it is, if you want to follow a certain person and see their tweets, you will have to pay for it.

I am against this but I did start thinking about it. If you are a person in power, a celeb, leader, or influencer maybe you could. I;m the type of person who generally wont pay for little things like this, but I’m willing to bet there are tons of people who would. Think of all the teenage girls who would be willing to pay to find out what Taylor Swift is doing throughout the day. Although I know the majority of people who will read this wont agree, I want you to think more like a business person. Can you not see there is a market there.

Now the question is would one of these people be more powerful behind a pay wall or with more followers as it is now?

Thoughts?

Couple New Sites: Blellow & TwitIQ

KyleWith — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:01 +0000

Tonight I found one new social networking site through another.

First I found Blellow when I was listening to a podcast and thought it was a site worth checking out. I’m not sure how to describe it, kind of like how it was hard to describe twitter for a while.

I believe it can be compared to twitter for work groups and social media. Once you have an account you are able to join groups and anytime your status has anything to do with a certain group you can associate it with it. If you happen to have a question about something you simply go to the group that it best fits (ie. WordPress question, WordPress Group) and ask. Then others in that group can @reply you with answers. If someone answers your question for you, you can kudos them. By doing this it shows everyone that that user has a knowledge about that group. I have included the introduction videos below to help you understand what it is better. Head on over and sign up and follow me, I’ll follow you back .

Doesn’t that video look familiar…..

My second fined, I found through Blellow somehow. It is called TwitIQ but I think that is slightly miss leading. Most of us use twitter desktop clients but for those of you who don’t, this is the site for you. Think of it as the Twitter site on steroids. It has everything a desktop client has and more including multiple accounts. On your homepage it shows the feed of those you are following as well as keywords used, trending topics and popular RTs among your friends. You are also given 4 other tabs at the top of the page, Mentions, DMs, People (descriptions of those you are following) and Channels (which are saved searches). I think this site has potential but I think it could do for a better name and I would like to see custom groups. Check it out nonetheless.