{"id":1676,"date":"2009-02-16T08:17:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2009-02-16T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T14:43:04","slug":"working-my-social-media-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/working-my-social-media-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Working my social media networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend spamming my family, friends, acquaintances, and more than a few random strangers, grubbing votes for the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mabel.ca\/poll\/\">Send a Blogger to BlogHer<\/a>&#8221; contest.  Since I work(ed) in social media, I&#8217;ve got a pretty good idea of how to run a social media campaign, and that&#8217;s more or less how I&#8217;ve been approaching this.  <\/p>\n<p>So far, I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sent notes to my Facebook &#8220;friends&#8221; &#8211; from the near and dear to the ones who I vaguely remember from the third grade;<\/li>\n<li>skimmed the 657 contacts in my gmail account and spammed a goodly number of them with an e-mail;<\/li>\n<li>sent out a few tweets on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniGirl\">twitter<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>posted notes to just about any forum, bulletin board or online community I could find my user-ID and password for; and<\/li>\n<li>set up a table at the grocery store beside the Girl Guides selling cookies and the pee wee hockey team selling apples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Okay, so that last one wasn&#8217;t true.  But I did think about it.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mabel.ca\/poll\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/voteflag.jpg\" alt=\"Vote for me!\" title=\"Vote for me!\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Too much?<\/p>\n<p>You guys have been great in supporting me.  <a href=\"http:\/\/scarbiedoll.blogspot.com\/\">Nadine <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/madhattermommy.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Mad <\/a>re-tweeted my message, Cooper and Emily endorsed me on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themotherhood.net\/\">Motherhood<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/fromthedeskofsara.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/helping-out-fellow-blogger.html\">Sara <\/a>wrote a whole blog post encouraging people to vote for me.  *smooches*  Some of my girlfriends even figured out that you can vote more than once from different browsers, so I managed to vote for myself six times:  once from each of IE, firefox and safari on the desktop and the laptop at home!  <\/p>\n<p>Any other ideas on how I can grub for some votes?  I noticed that some of the other finalists were holding giveaways (i.e. &#8220;Vote for me to get entries into this draw! Retweet or blog to get multiple entries!&#8221;) and at first I thought, &#8220;Oh, I could do that!  No doubt, everyone loved the iTunes giveway, and it would be a small price to pay to trade a $25 gift card for a free trip to BlogHer!&#8221;  But to be honest &#8211; not to cast disparaging remarks at the competition or anything, but &#8211; the more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I was with the idea of &#8220;buying&#8221; votes.  How is that different from asking you to leave a silly comment in exchange for an entry in any other giveaway?  I don&#8217;t know &#8212; it just seems not quite right to me.  What do you think?  Would it make you more likely to vote, or would that be a line I shouldn&#8217;t cross?  (I kind of hope you&#8217;ll vote for me regardless, but I&#8217;m also curious as to your opinion.)  <\/p>\n<p>Aside from accosting random strangers with BlackBerries &#8211; and there&#8217;s no shortage of those around here! &#8211; to beg them for votes, any ideas how I can drum up a few more votes and still love myself in the morning?  I realize it&#8217;s a fine line between proactively campaigning for votes and annoying the hell out of my friends and &#8220;friends&#8221; alike, but when&#8217;s the next chance I&#8217;ll have an opportunity like this?<\/p>\n<p>(And if you haven&#8217;t already, for goodness sake<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mabel.ca\/poll\/\"> VOTE<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend spamming my family, friends, acquaintances, and more than a few random strangers, grubbing votes for the &#8220;Send a Blogger to BlogHer&#8221; contest. Since I work(ed) in social media, I&#8217;ve got a pretty good idea of how to run a social media campaign, and that&#8217;s more or less how I&#8217;ve been approaching &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/working-my-social-media-networks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working my social media networks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}