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LinkedIn Crushes FB, Twitter in Closing Leads
A new study via HubSpot has found that LinkedIn prospects convert to sales four times better than leads generated by either Twitter or Facebook.
Not a big surprise, really, though the ratio is perhaps a bit higher than I would have guessed. For my B2B prospecting, business generation and information gathering, I value my LinkedIn network at least 10 times more than Twitter or Facebook. The latter are good networks for broadcast, but not for discussion.
I'm focusing my B2B clients more and more on LinkedIn.
Posterous Acquired by Twitter, Then Dead Silence
Back on March 12, Twitter acquired my blogging service, Posterous. Good for the Posterous founders, a deserving and dedicated group of folks. Maybe not so good for the millions of people who have made Posterous such a success that it came to the attention of Twitter. I adopted a wait-and-see attitude while hundreds of Posterous users moaned publicly about the inevitable pending loss of their beloved blogging platform.
Here we are 19 days later and not a peep out of the Posterous crowd. They haven't posted any new blog entries. They haven't made any definitive announcements beyond the somewhat scary focus of their FAQ on the fact that they will make it easy to transition to other blogging systems so we shouldn't worry about losing our blog content. Very poorly worded unless they really intend to shut down or abandon (stop developing) Posterous.
I can't imagine Twitter would pay millions of dollars to acquire the Posterous team without considering the technology of some value and worth sustaining. On the other hand, Twitter hasn't done a lot of acquisitions so there's not a track record there to count on. And the fact is that Twitter is so huge that they surely do not need the audience of Posterous users, the vast majority of whom are undoubtedly already Twitter users.
Regardless of whether Twitter maintains Posterous, continues to develop it or abandons it, it's not likely they'll extend the platform in some of the directions it still needs to consider. Specifically, I mean autoposting support for Google+. That's a gaping hole in the present Posterous coverage, but Twitter surely has little or no incentive to make it easier for people to use the only potentially legitimate rival to its service. It's that kind of thing that I suspect will result in a gradual exodus of users from Posterous that will ultimately justify a shutdown even if that wasn't part of the thinking that went into the acquisition decision.
Time to look for an alternate platform, I guess, but I have grown quite weary of such searches.
Lou Kavar, A Thoughtful Guy Worth Following
I've been following @LouKavar on Twitter for quite a while now and I've really begun to admire and respect his work. He had a post today pointing out quite clearly and cogently the cognitive dissonance that must result from any attempt to reconcile true Christianity and unregulated or lightly regulated free-enterprise capitalism. I cheered his position, re-tweeted his post and commented on his blog.
Like Lou, I don't live those principles nearly as fully or perfectly as I'd like but it is a constant undertaking on my part to do so. The fact that a plurality of folks polled in the survey he cites agree that capitalism and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible is quite encouraging to me as it was to Lou.
Check him out. Follow him on Twitter. And tell him I sent you!
The Weiner Tweet Story Was DOA
This has gone on way longer than it should have been allowed to continue.
NY Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner has repeatedly and clearly denied he sent a supposedly lewd photo (that apparently no one has actually seen?) to a Twitter follower he doesn't know and who has clearly said she doesn't know him. Because of the technical and legal issues involved in tracking down the prank or hoax or downright attack on his character, Weiner has seen fit not to make a definitive statement about who might or might not have sent the photo, who is in the photo, or what motivated the incident. For that, he is being excoriated in the conservative press. They can hardly contain their glee at maybe, possibly, just perhaps having caught one Democrat in an objectionable act after a decade of their side being slimed in so many actual, provable, admitted sexual peccadilloes and scandals that their Family Values shield is full of rust and holes.
This story was DOA, people. It had no substance. It had no legs. Only the right-wing media -- aided and abetted by the once-and-no-longer-honorable CNN -- has kept it alive in a desperate attempt to draw attention away from the GOP's struggles with its "kill Medicare" budget and its bloc opposition to any legislation that would fix the economy or help anyone but the nation's richest.
Nothing to see here, people. Move along.
