If You Don’t Succeed the First Time, Try, Try, Again!

By Chantal Riviere - Dec 16 , 2010

At the beginning of November, I wrote a blog post called, “Yikes! I am a Guinea Pig.” That post explains that I am a test case–a guinea pig so to speak!

It was the first time that Michael [Drew] and Andrea [Reindl] were teaching a person with my level of computer skill and understanding how to blog.

This has been difficult lately, not knowing what to do. And frustrating for my masters also, as they were challenged in how best to teach me. The one thing that became evident was that I have to become known in the social media world. There are great benefits in doing so.

The lesson or gem that I became aware of is that I needed to join a bunch of social networking groups.

The easiest way to do this is by using a site that such as ping.fm, that will get you signed up quickly and easily.  On that site, there are multiple other sites all inter-connected, so that if I put a message on the ping board, that message gets broadcast through all of the social media places that I join.  Easy!

My assignment for the month of December to join the sites and take notes.

So far, I have joined Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Linked in, MySpace, Tumblr, and Plurk.  So, if you want to go and join those and add me as a friend, that would be wonderful.

Let me know when you join, or what you join.  Just think…a whole new batch of friends!