But I’ll go find you and follow you. Just know that I probably won’t see much of what you post! Unless it mentions me of course. ;-)

1st) Use it as a “HEADLINE’ site for all the tons of social stuff you do – direct people to your blog, mixers you’re attending, MCAI links, etc. It works best with some REAL activity not just once a week like you do. And repeats of key stuff are okay cuz not everyone is on-line at the same time.

2nd) You need to follow people BACK when they follow you and monitor your “mentions” when people talk about you or retweet you – thank them, be social – you can do it! Active Twitter users don’t like to follow people who won’t follow-back because those folks look like BROADCASTERS – as if what they TWEET about is the only thing that counts. Don’t be a broadcaster – be a sharer of information and share OTHER Twitter people’s info. Twitter needs to have a little 2-way communication as well – at least let folks THINK you care about them and look at their tweets when you can.

If you do this the TWITTER lite-bulb will go off for you and you’ll get it!! With all you do in the VO world and media community you SHOULD have 1000’s of followers by now. If you step it up a bit and take these steps you might have some Twitter success!! Oh, BTW I’m at @tjkeenan & @Soundtrack_Pro I’d follow you if you’d follow me :-)

Tim Keenan

One of the great things about twitter has been that it is an open platform, allowing third party providers to make augmentations to the service. Twitter is about to end that, which is too bad.

I would also highly recommend Google Plus. I was very negative about it for quite sometime (honestly, it really wasn’t ready for Prime-Time when they launched it). It isn’t a replacement for The Book of Faces even though it does everything FB does and better…it’s really a hybrid of twitter and FB with all the integration of Google services. You can have a video conferencing Hangout on G+, invite your friends and sync it with your Google Calendar, and then save it and have it available on YouTube. As a side note, I got rid of my phone lines at home and now I use Google Voice as my phone patch for US clients and Skype for international clients. Works like a charm (actually, better than any Getner or JK Audio device I’ve used).

Directly related to VO, I’ve ”followed” production houses that eventually down the road sent me emails requesting quotes for jobs that I recorded for them. This kind of passive or soft-sell networking has also been effective on G+.