[Thanks to everyone who participated today in the inSocialMedia Online chat. And kudos to Kathy for hoppin on and adding her contact info directly into this post. If you would like your info added more fully to this post, please add you data to the comments and I will move it into the post as I am updating it.]

Moderator: John McElhenney, SocialMedia Innovation Group – www.socialmediaandinnovation.com / john.mcelhenney (at) gmail.com / 512-99 nine-9949

Kathy Ellis, The Business Lab – www.thebusinesslab.com / kathy@thebusinesslab.com / 281-374-0170

TOPIC: Networking online, what works what doesn’t, where are you finding “gold” and where are you finding “lead” or “spam”?
On Social Media for Business: and by ACTION I mean actionable information, actionable business opportunities
Question: so where are folks finding the best “connection” online, personal or business?
Question: where are you finding the MONEY online?

A few highlights from the meeting:
NIV: i don’t think you should follow communities, i think u need to lead them or lead inside them
Dawn: With twitter you need to get out there and interact with people make yourself known before you start asking for business

Steven: Do blogs work at all? Writing blogs. Does that bring business?
JMac: blogs are the core of social media – in my mind if you aren’t blogging, what are you doing?
Dawn: I don’t get much social interaction on my blogs, but I do get RT on twitter and it keeps my website fresh with content (great for SEO)

JMac: if you can’t come up with 20 ideas a day, you might need more exciting places to Lurk/
if you are saying something of “value” then you are doin a service/
if you begin flexing your writing skills the content will continue to come to you/
building an audience and traffic for that blog… well that’s the magic sauce/
instead of WIIFM (what’s in it for me) try WIIFY (what’s in it for you)
Steven: I feel that I can’t write anything more than 140 characters

Steven: do you befriend everyone on FB?
JMac: I do on FB, not on LinkedIN
Steven: I do the opposite, I feel that I have too much personal info on FB and LinkedIn is all business

Some helpful links:
http://www.socialmediasummit09.com/

http://insocialmedia.com our community site

#twitterbook (Tim OReilly’s chat yesterday on his new Twitter book)

My summary of Tim’s talk: http://bit.ly/twitterbook-r

Here is the facebook group that is discussing Whurley’s Open Sourcing Austin’s Website Idea http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=90275885408

Twitter ID’s shared during the meeting
@jonl on twitter
@janica on twitter
@nivcalderon
@jmacofearth on Twitter and Friendfeed
@globalmed on twitter
@twdeeter on twitter
@larrygoode on twitter

Here is the Campfire capture of everyone’s names: Charity Newsome, Chris Eames, Conceptsguy, Dawn Pigoni, Erin, FredericPeron, Helene Solinga, ICONIC FREEDOM, Jammin, Jill Konrath, John McElhenney, Jon Lebkowsky, Jonathan Freed, Kathy Ritondo, Kennyotto, Kiruba, Larry Brauner, Larry Goode, Michael Grover, Niv Calderon, Ray Gulick, Steven Brown, Tom Deeter, adrian, daltonparsons, janica, jhopkins57, kathy ellis, loriharrod, shelley goldstein, tony roberts