#17 Populate the Pillars

~Twitter~
For every key word in your profile do a people search and "follow" everyone who has a profile that is appealing to you (or at least not offensive to you or blank or silly). You may in this way begin to follow hundreds of people. Also for topic of interest search the conversations by using the search box on your home page. Add people whose conversation you like on topics of interest to you. So with Twitter, initially you should follow 100 to 200 people. After a week or so use My Tweeple, a twitter tool to eliminate all of the people you are following who did not reciprocate.

Set an automatic thank-you-and-cull at TweetLater. This wilL gradUally increase your Twitter following as others find you.

If you feel alright about it...invite your email address book to join you on Twitter.


~YouTube~
You really need original content. Othewise, what are people subscribing to, an empty channel? Maybe they can subscribe to your favorites or to yor playists. I have one subscriber and have uploaded no videos.

If you feel alright about it...invite your email address book to join you on YouTube

Send invitations to people that turn up as a result of your search on YouTube. Search based on your interests.

~NINGForum~
I belong to 5 NING forums and betwxt them all it would be great to have a total of 500 contacts ("friends")

Befriend the newbies. Befriend everyone who write blog posts. Or simply befriend everyone up to 100 people (that is the limit) and as invitations are accepted invite more. Some people are not active and for those who are otherwise ignoring your invitation,withdraw it, especially if is a forum with a high membership.

You have a limit of 100 unanswered invitations.

If you feel alright about it...invite your email address book to join you on NING.

Send friend requests to people who are active in the forum. People who have joined groups, made blog posts, done something to thier NING page that makes it stand out in some whay from the default look.

Getting friends on NING is time consuming.

~MySpace~
If you feel alright about it...invite your email address book to join you on MySpace

Send invitations to people that turn up as a result of your search on Myspace. Search based on your interests

~Facebook~
If you feel alright about it...invite your email address book to join you on Facebook

Also search school and geography and employer networks to find people that you already know.

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