Comments on: Do you Have What it Takes to be a Social Media Ninja?

By: SUsan Weingart

SUsan Weingart — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:55:33 +0000

I choose Stephaie because she has all the qualifications needed as well as being bright and innovative.

By: SilentJay74

SilentJay74 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:48:13 +0000

@JulzB Yeah that is SEO not Social Media. This contest is about Social Media not SEO.

By: JulzB

JulzB — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:51:15 +0000

Bart the Bear – have you seen his posts?! Always a different way of looking at social media and good ideas for getting traffic via Mixx.

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By: SpostareDuro

SpostareDuro — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:18:17 +0000

I am SpostareDuro, an assassin and murderer. A proud sponsor of guerrilla warfare. An international eye. The hidden warrior. Sensory perfection designed by rebirth filtering the haze and hypnotism of lies and falsification.

My eyes see only truth and disposes mounds of mental garbage in the landfill of the internet. I consume positivity. Holistically filling me, generating endless degrees of empowerment to serve my brotherhood as I sneak attack the enemy in plain view.

My existence depends on quenching a never dying thirst of knowledge and distributing this energy to those of my brotherhood. Keeping us alive. Bringing together our longing masses from the underground.

I assassinate negativity with will to conquer and prevail.

I murder underhandedness by posting awareness between my brothers.

Proud sponsor of guerrilla warfare as my attack is not against my foe…it is the empowerment of my brothers. A united front.

Espionage comes easiest in my world. The enemy gives bull**** freely in hopes of crushing my community while I smile and pass it on, once again, enhancing the strength of my brotherhood.

I am the greatest Social Media Ninja. Because my brotherhood is the greatest. Holding truth and skill as one. As one, we become all to all.

By: Zaibatsu

Zaibatsu — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:56:09 +0000

My Kung Fu is strong

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:43:13 +0000

Stephanie Weingart should be considered to be a Social Media Ninja.

Stephanie used personal networking to build relationships with peers & works very hard at maintaining conversations using Social Networking sites.

She even begged her employer to be able to attended Pubcon Las Vegas just to build new relationships!

Stephanie has her day broken down into time pockets in which she puts 5 hours per day into analyzing and utilizing Facebook, Sphinn, Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon, RateitAll, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Youtube, LinkedIn, etc.

She saves 2 hours per day just to read blogs of the masters to stay up to date with the industry. She devours the words of Wisdom.

Stephanie’s most ninja-like event occurred when she broke down the ego of Julie Joyce, just to become a writer for SEO-Chicks.com

She aspires to make a huge dent in Social Media by the end of 2008 and practices her daily SMM tactics to perfect her craft but realizes that she will always be a student.

Stephanie acknowledges that an important level of learning in the Social Media industry is to make mistakes.

Stephanie speaks in 3rd person because she knows she is only as powerful as her brand.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:28:37 +0000

My bet is quality, not quantity.
* My metrics are not the number of my friends but their feedback on my work;
* If I initiate friendship request, I make sure I know the person (I’ve met him at any other social network before, I am subscribed to his blog and follow his posts, etc);
* I make sure I know my friends (their websites, places they participate, their friends);
* I don’t move to the next social network before I am pretty sure I have already learned and tested all the tactics with this one;
* Before I actually do something, I research first (in fact, for me research is the most exciting part of both blogging and networking);
* I prefer niche social networks because that’s where I can find people interested in the same topic as me (with general networks, I also always try to stay within my niche);
* I currently actively participate in StumbleUpon and Twitter (yes, only two of them). I am also registered at Sphinn and Mixx but with these two I am at the stage of research (I am not as active there yet);
* I am not afraid of mistakes as they teach me the better lesson than any blogger (even the great one).

P.S. I feel like I sound boring, sorry

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By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:32:25 +0000

I definitely think I am in the running for social media Ninja. I have Stumbled over 5,000 websites and blogs. I have used Digg, Plime, Skirt, Newsvine, Mixx, Propeller, Delicious, Fark, YouTube, Facebook, Sphinn, Yhacker News, TagSum, Flickr, and direct e-mail. I have made mistakes as any Ninja in training, but take to being taught like a sponge to water. As any Ninja I am ready to pounce at all times but have much patience when it comes to community building, linkbaiting, and traffic.
I am a mom with four kids, balancing, work, family, marriage and home and a social media blog. If that does not make me a social media Ninja then I don’t know what does!

By: Michael Brito

Michael Brito — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:19:41 +0000

Well, I would consider myself more of a Social Media Samurai. Ninja’s were silent, stealth, invisible, quiet and never interacted with their enemy until they sliced their throat. Samurai were not only fierce warriors but were also civilian public servants and were extremely “active” in their “communities”.

And besides…everyone knows that a Samurai can kick a Ninja’s a#@!

By: Local SEO Guide

Local SEO Guide — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:19:19 +0000

1. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

2. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

3. Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

4. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

5. He who will not economize will have to agonize.

6. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

7. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

8. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

9. Study the past if you would define the future.

10. Have no friends not equal to yourself.

By: Mack

Mack — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:54:50 +0000

A social media ninja must first learn the ways of the wise from those who have mastered their social skills. Through much study and meditation a student can gain the ability to adapt to any situation and overcome one or more advisories. A social ninja must use every available resource to gain the upper hand over a fearful larger opponent. They can not be bound by any true allies, but should be willing to make temporary trusted bonds to accomplish a like goal. Only after they have taken many footsteps in the shoes of those before them can they become real social media masters.

By: theGypsy

theGypsy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:32:28 +0000

he he… dats a good one. I actually have a private Forum on my site that I call ‘the Huomah Dojo’ … he he…. so we even have that angle covered…. don’t know how I missed that one Tom… HA!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:31:18 +0000

The first rule of social media ninja dojo (SMND) is, you do not talk about social media ninja dojo.

2nd rule: You DO NOT talk about SMND.

3rd rule: If someone get banned or goes limp then the submission is over.

4th rule: Only one submitter per story.

5th rule: One submission at a time.

6th rule: No shirt, no shoes.

7th rule: Comment flaming will go on as long as it has to.

8th rule: If this is your first night at SMND then you have to submit.

By: Gab

Gab — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:14:41 +0000

Nono, don’t be insulted. I look forward to getting to know all of you better, and am actually planning a profile piece on the ten of you . Feel free to email me anything that you’d like included! )Including links !)

By: Wingnut

Wingnut — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:33:53 +0000

I’d like to play. Mostly because I have a lot of extra time but also because I can already chop through 5 blocks of ice and am totally already skilled in Social Media Hensōjutsu and Shinobi-iri .

Plus I’m already at least a Social Media Novice, beings that some of you know of me through Sphinn.

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:17:09 +0000

@Tim: should the rest of us be insulted (re: Gad not mentioning us)? lol. Most of us here are pretty well known on Sphinn.

On Sphinn, I’m known as NowSourcing, Tad is Onreact…you get the idea.

Thanks for the great submissions so far, all!

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:18:01 +0000

Should the rest of us be insulted?