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So I noticed somewhere around March or April that I've been endorsed for some of my skills- and I'm very grateful to the new contacts and ex-colleagues and friends who have taken the time to endorse me. I've also noticed - and I shall keep names out of it - that some of my skills ( which I do have) have been endorsed by people that could not possibly have experienced or witnessed those skills. Because  I know them in a completely different sphere than the skills they have now endorsed. For example. I know some SQL . I know it because I learnt it by working on an Oracle database while being a Business Analyst at Discovery Health . Unless you have worked with me at Discovery ( and even then , I did a lot of different things at Discovery Health) you wouldn't really be able to endorse my SQL skills. I also know a fair bit about databases and database management. Not all of it by direct experience mind you, but because in working with DBA's over the years I have pi...

I've been recently researching all the information I can find on the 'best practises' , so to speak of building a social media platform for a company, or a brand. It really has become something of a full time job, managing the Twitter , Google+ and Facebook Pages for our company , keeping my details relevant on LinkedIn , and making  the content relevant, and not redundant, whilst trying to maintain and build a sufficient following that would justify all the effort.  I've realised a few things - some on my own as I've worked through what it means to have a Page on facebook that only 20 odd people follow. Some realisations have literally hit me in the face while reading up on the do's and don't of maintaining a social presence. And unfortunetly some of them I have had to learn the hard way.  So here's my take on this whole social networking for companies idea, grouped by the platform it relates to