A Dose of Social Media Reality

Are you among the thought-followers thinking that Social Media and Social Networking is a fad?  Fad or not, there are some thing you may not know:

• There are over 500 groups specific to Des Moines at Facebook? Several are either for or against local businesses. Is this a tool you can use to build a community of customers?
• That even though folks like Todd Mundt are sharing several pages from the Des Moines Register, The Juice and Des Moines Business Record - these publications don't maintain archives -- which means they kill the sharing capabilities of users.
• Speaking of Todd Mundt - Dig the way he shares top stories from his Google Feeds
• Surprisingly, there's only 184 Twitter-ers who claim Iowa as home.
• A Google Blog Search for the phrase "Business in Iowa" brings up over 4,500 results.
• Over 17,000 videos have been tagged "iowa" at YouTube.
• With all the blogs listed at IowaBlogs.Net - I'll bet some of them are customers (prospects?)

Here's the thing: If you don't pay attention now - you may pay the price later. Even if it is a fad - why not tap into the power and people now?