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Twitter user @ohjennymae has asked for help in getting a Google doc to show in a blog post. She says when she follows these directions, it doesn’t work. All she sees is the embed code.

I think what happened is that she put the embed code in the visual tab, not the HTML tab. (Turns out I was right.)

If I am right, the doc should show in this post. If I am not right, the document won’t show here either. So, was I right?

Update: Bruce tried to view this post on Chrome and it works. However, on IE and FireFox, it doesn’t.

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Lately, I have been playing with a couple of new sites that lets you build infographics about yourself. One works slick, the other… well… see for yourself.

LinkedIn Infographic

The first of these sites is vizualize.me. They are still in closed beta, but you can get iothers click your referal link. (It may take a bit of time, but they are adding people as they can.)

For this one, all you need to do is connect your account to LinkedIn. Once you have the base infographic, you can format it in any number of ways. You also have a limited ability to decide what parts of your LinkedIn profile get shown.

My viz can be found at http://t.co/0vqtDPG and looks like this:

While the approach taken by vizualize.me is a very basic one, I have reason to believe that they will be growing the capabilities soon. Fingers crossed that this turns out to be true.

Twitter Infographic

The next site is called visual.ly. This new site allows you to make personal infographics. I have experimented with the Twitter one and a couple of others.
To make the Twitter graphic, you start by connecting your Twitter account to their site. Once you have done that, you provide your Twitter account, customize your character, and click the generate button:

Once the generate button is clicked, you are provided with a page containing your graphic and links and embed codes for it. My graphic looks like this:

Eventually, visual.ly hopes to have labs that help you do other infographics. Right now, they do offer a feature where you can upload an infographic to their library for sharing and storage.

What would I like to see?

Color me picky, but I want one tool that takes all of my social media presence (or at least as much of it as I want to give permissions to) and put together a timeline/infographic that shows my spread across the web. This would let me have one place to send people so that they could see who I am and what I am all about.

I don’t want just a list of links (Xee.Me does that already and quite well). I don’t want just a list of the text items. I want a true data driven graphic that shows what I talk about and how you can connect with me.

Is that too much to ask?

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In response to the post I wrote on Job Qualifications and Salaries for Community Managers, I was asked on Miio what I would recommend someone do to get started in the Community Management field. Here are some ideas to get you started.

The place you start is where the conversation is. I firmly believe that the best way to learn is to do. Find out where people are talking about what you are interested in and join the conversation.

Pick a unique name/handle for yourself. Pick something that relates to who you are. Names are great, if yours is unique. Numbers aren’t great – at least in my opinion. Be consistent in using that name across all the social sites where you create accounts. Get a great picture or avatar to go with it and use it everywhere as well. (I have two. My photo is some places and my manga style avatar is others. They look enough like me that it works to have both out there.) Put together a good story about who you are and what you do. Use that when you create profiles. (But don’t always use the exact same wording – it will make you look too much like a robot.)

Follow the best in the community management world, including:

• Connie Bensen, Alterian - http://twitter.com/cbensen
• Shashi Bellamkonda, Network Solutions – http://twitter.com/shashib
• Amber Naslund, Radian 6 – http://twitter.com/AmberCadabra
• Kristie Wells, Social Media Club – http://twitter.com/kristiewells
• Jake McKee, Ant’s Eye View – http://twitter.com/jakemckee
• Sean O’Driscoll, Ant’s Eye View – http://twitter.com/seanodmvp

Follow them on Twitter and anywhere else they are. Read everything they write. Check out the tools they use. Comment on what you read. Get involved. Don’t be a spammer about it, be real and be authentic. But do connect as best you can. Find out where they are and be there too.

Search out forums you can get involved in and start participating. Remember that a good bit of the conversation is still happening in old style forums. If you want to connect with people, create an account where your topic is being discussed. Make sure you fill in profile fields so that people find you. Answer questions. Help out. Do what you can to be a good cyber-citizen.

If you know a certain piece of software, find out where people are talking about that software and start talking. Answer questions more than you ask. Give more than you take. A good place to start is with boards where people are active. If you know Microsoft software, for example, check out the Social Answers site. You probably already have an account there, you just need to make it active.

Start creating content that helps people. Become the one that knows how to do it, then you can become the one who gets paid to do it. Whenever possible add screen shots to your answers. Create screencasts and videos to go with your content. Create a test case which you can use to document your skills. Find a project or non-profit that needs online help and volunteer.

When people ask you questions, answer as much of it publicly as you can. Yes, you CAN answer questions via email and private message. But if you answer them publicly, you help more people. Answering a question privately fixes the problem for one person. Answering it publicly answers it for everyone who has the problem.

Practice measuring and monitoring the social media presence and community presence for a product or brand you love. Check out the best of the monitoring and measurement tools. Learn everything you can about how to track information, gather data, generate graphs, etc. Write about what you learn.

Find new tools and sites for social media. Check them out. Try them out. Offer to beta test them. As you play with them, help others learn them. If you run into problems, report them. When you report the problems, be sure to tell the development team what you were doing, why you were doing it, and what you would have liked to have happened that didn’t. (Looking for a way to find the best social media tools? Ask people. Check out OneForty.com regularly for new tools and ways to use them.)

Finally, pick three of the things off the list of job qualifications that you don’t already know how to do and start learning them. Ask people to help you get better at what you are doing. Ask them how you can help. The more you learn, the more you can share. The more you share, the more likely it is that someone will see what you can do for them and ask you to help out. Every time that happens, you get one step closer to your goal of becoming a full time, paid, community manager.

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I just found a great new tool! Twitter user @andymurd has created a mashup that maps where your twitter followers come from and shows them to you in a zoomable map. (Hat tip to @Mashable for blogging about it this morning.)

Go to the Mmmeeja tools page and give it your twitter handle. It will build the map and give you code to embed the map on your own site, just as I have done below. Check it out and let me know what you think!

My Map:

Please wait

Get your own Twitter map

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In the process of updating my right hand columns, I seem to have dropped the Twitter link from my blog. Thanks to Twitter user @temujinna who came to Social Media Club last night and noticed the problem when she came to the blog this morning.

The link should be back there momentarily. Meanwhile, if you want to ask me anything… Feel free to do so via either the Skribit box in the right column or via my page on FormSpring.

As to her question? Over on Twitter, I am CallKathy. Just like I am almost everywhere on the social web. Let’s connect!

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I’ve been a bit behind in doing Follow Friday recommendations lately. It’s time to rectify that! Here is today’s list of Twitter-ites that you should follow and the reasons I love them and what they have to say:

@queenofspain and @aaronvest – Listening to these two is like living with them. They are a real couple fighting battles that everyone is familiar with. They love each other and their kids. They have a shared sense of humor that will make you snort. They are two of the bravest people I know. Follow them.

@shashib – We’ve been here before. He’s just amazing. Follow him if you want to learn what’s what in social media.

@egoldstein and @amplifytheweb -Eric runs Amplify, my newest online addiction. A great site for sharing, commenting, and connecting about web content. Eric is involved in not just the site development, but also the community as well.

@jodijodijodi @leighdow @allroses @chrysohara @gawthrok @spellwight @godaddy @MightyMommy and way too many more for making Wednesday’s #smdayphx so much fun to attend!

@einsteintech for being willing to consider making his great OneNote addin (OneNote calendar) work with the most recent version.

@ehorley @mrexcel and all the other new and renewed Microsoft MVPS

You are all MVPs in my world. Keep rocking the great content!

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For months, I have had a problem with my Twitter updates showing up multiple times on my Facebook pages. It drives friends nuts, splits conversations, and makes me a look like a spammer. (Spammer? How? Duplicate content on my news and profile every time I tweet.)

Today, I think I finally figured out (and fixed) the last piece of the problem. I was allowing three Facebook applications to update my page with my tweets:

• FriendFeed
• Tweeter
• Twitter

I had found the FriendFeed problem about a month ago.Today I dug and found Tweeter.

Where did I find it? Let’s step through:

1. Edit your applications. The easiest way to get there is to click the applications box on the lower left of your Facebook page. At the bottom of the list, you will find “Edit Applications”.
2. Change the “Show” dropdown to “Allowed to Post”.
   

   Change "Show" setting

3. Scroll down to the section “Allowed to Post One-Line Stories without Prompting”.
4. Scroll through that section of the page and find anything that posts your tweets (FriendFeed, Tweeter, Twitter, etc.)
5. In turn, click edit settings for each of those applications.
6. Change to the “Additional Permissions” tab and uncheck “Publish to streams”.
   

   Uncheck to stop the double posts!

7. In turn, click edit settings for each of those applications. Be sure to leave at least one application posting to your feeds, or your tweets won’t ever show.

If you want to dig further, check the “Granted Addtional Permissions” tab. You will see multiple sublists on that page. I found that Twitter was set to publish to my wall, my status, and others. I tried to change it to just my status, but was not successful. It seems to be either on everywhere or off everywhere.

As far as I can tell, this process should fix the double posts for future tweets. It won’t change tweets made before the change. If you find differently, tell me – we’ll keep beating on the problem!

UPDATE:

After much hassle, I decided to go with TweetDeck. I installed TweetDeck and set it up to send to both Twitter and Facebook. The notes about turning off thenotifications from applications still applies, but TweetDeck doesn’t work via the applications. Instead, it runs on your desktop (or iPhone if you are lucky enough to have one). You post from it.

If you want help on getting it set up, let me know!