Here are some other interesting tools that a number of Chairs have told me they use on a regular basis and consider to be among their favorite tools for managing information and social media interactions. You can read more about each of these tools under our Social Media Tools Tab. Evernote – a tool that […]
Tag Archive for ‘social networking’ 
Promoting and Publicizing Your Blog
Promoting and publicizing your blog content is easy, but it does take about 15-20 minutes every time you publish, after you’ve set up the accounts on the different networks. This is the process I follow every time I hit publish: 1. Go to Delicious and create an account, if you don’t already have one. Save […]
Advanced LinkedIn: Using the Polls Application
What do your connections think? Let’s assume you have all your current potential new members as 1st degree connections in LinkedIn. Have you considered conducting a short poll among them and then sharing the information? Perhaps, you could do a poll with the current members of your group? Jan Vermeiren, in his Networking Coach’s Opinion […]
How Can You Be FOUND?
Here’s an interesting blog post from Vicki Sullivan who recently wrote an interesting blog post at SullivanSpeakerOnline.com about how professional service providers (retained executive recruiters like me and Vistage Chairs like you) are FOUND when someone is searching for help or advice. She spoke to the fact that a recent survey from two highly regarded […]
Long Live Email
Many have proclaimed the death of email from the rise of social media. Baloney! Email will still be the center of communications for most executives. However, the various tools of social media help reinforce and support the importance of contacts, relationships, and communication. Integrating these together with minimum number of databases, tools, and applications is […]
Are You Connected to Your Members on LinkedIn?
If you’re not connected to the vast majority of your CEO members, you’re making networking much too hard. Let’s break this down into two components: 1. Looking at the networks of your members and their Trusted Advisors. 2. Convincing your members who are not on LinkedIn or barely using it – to get their entire […]
Xobni for Outlook - Must Have Tool
If you use Outlook, the Xobni Extension/Add-on is a wonderful tool. In fact, it’s could be the best tool I have ever downloaded. Have you tried it yet? Xobni is Inbox spelled backwards. Get the paid version instead of the free version. When it comes to networking, this little add-on is so powerful. Everytime you […]
Are You Putting Up Sign Posts in Social Media?
A common phrase used in social media marketing is “erecting sign posts”. You’re “directing” and “leading” your prospects to you through all the sign posts you’ve put up on the Web. The idea is to create profiles and content that guides your prospects over time to like you, to trust you, to want to follow […]
Become a Resource To Others In Your Network FIRST
Jason Jacobsohn, writing on his blog, Networking Insights, one of our featured feeds on the Networking Tab, talks about a powerful networking strategy of becoming a resource to your network. The title of his article is “Become a Resource to Grow Your Network”. Jason makes the case for helping others BEFORE THEY ASK to become […]
Upcoming Downloads of Tools for Vistage Chairs
I will be making all my documents and tools used in the Vistage Chair Group Presentation available for downloading on this portal site. These tools include: 1. Trusted Advisor Assessment and Interview 2. The Entire PowerPoint Presentation 3. Audio Recording of the Chair Group Presentation 4. White Paper on why your members should join LinkedIn […]
