Marketing Sherpa Reporters Picks Facebook Enthusiast "Great Minds" as article as #4 Favorite for 2007

Back in July, I started to blog specifically about facebook, believing it would be a platform which might transform the way we meet and socialize. Since my core strengths were working around brands and media, I decided to make that a specialty. Personal branding is no easy feat, especially when there are sixty million users of Facebook.

So it was a nice holiday surprise, when I awoke this morning to find that MarketingSherpa.com's reporters (not readers) voted the article which I was interviewed as # 4 in the top ten for 2007. It means even more since, marketingsherpa is recognized as one of the leading online newsletters and event companies for the online marketing industry.

Here is the excerpt from their weekly e-mail:
#4. Great Minds: How to Market Yourself & Your Company on Facebook - 11 Steps & Strategies

SUMMARY: Joining an online social network such as Facebook can put you in touch with millions of like-minded professionals around the world. It also can serve as a powerful marketing tool.

Yet, marketing yourself and your company on Facebook takes a special approach. Social networks are designed to foster human interaction, not to promote products. In this tutorial, we show you how to create the best profile, how to network to extend your relationship and how to use applications to build your company's brand.
(Open access until January 3rd)

It is also satisfying since I have been a reader of Marketing Sherpa for many years.

Better yet this comes only a week after Anna Farmery, podcaster out of the UK named www.theengagingbrand.com interviewed me for her show. Her blogs and weekly podcasts with experts are well received around the world.

Here are some of the awards the Engaging Brand has won:
* The Engaging Brand Blog in the Power 150 Of Advertising Age Blogs
* The Engaging Brand podcast voted in Top 10 of Small Business Radio
* Nominated for Best Business Podcast at the Podcast Awards 2007
* The Engaging Brand podcast voted in Top 10 Marketing Podcasts
* Voted in Top 16 Most Valuable Podcasts
* Listed in the Small Business Top 100 Small Business Trends
* Reviewed on Cool Podcasts
* Voted 21st in the Top 100 Best Business Blogs
* Top 25 Marketing Blog