Daryna Kulya

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Category Archives: Social Media

Social Meals. Grubwithus in Toronto

Last Tuesday I hosted a Grubwithus meal in Toronto. Grubwithus is a startup in Venice Beach, California that created a platform for building friendships over meals. The idea is very simple – choose your city, enter your interests and view meals happening near you. Meals are interest-driven or cuisine-specific – grub with designers, entrepreneurs, fashionistas [...]

Social Media Day 2011 in Windsor-Essex

Popular digital and social media news site Mashable declared June 30th as the global Social Media Day in 2010. Communities around the world responded positively by connecting offline and talking about what social media means to them. Last week Windsor-Essex joined other Mashable communities by hosting the first celebration of the Social Media Day. Local [...]

Correspondence Tracking on Social Media sites

Something I have been wondering about for a while now – how to track correspondence with people on Social Media sites?

    Am I losing touch with any of my 600+ Facebook friends?
    Who in my LinkedIn network is disappearing from my reach?
    Have I totally forgotten about anyone I am following on Twitter?

The problem is real. Facebook helps you get connected with people, but it does not effectively help you stay in touch with them. LinkedIn is a great tool for building your professional network, but not necessarily engaging it. Twitter conversations are short and sweet, but do you want to build stronger relationships with your followers?

Having a lot of ‘friends’, but not keeping in touch with them a lot of times results in termination of so called ‘friendship’.

I bet you have once cleaned up your Facebook friend list or have a friend who did it. No need to explain reasoning behind this, let’s rather see what solutions the sites are offering and how effective they are.