I believe that we’ve only experienced the tip of the iceberg in the use of social media as a professional and business tool.  With half a billion active Facebook users it’s obvious that it’s not going away anytime soon.  It’s my belief that we should look for ways to embrace it professional as the economy is forcing us to look at more and more creative ways to draw customers in and network with peers and even competitors to stay afloat until things turn around.



That said, I’ve decided to personally embrace Facebook in a more professional way.  For the past two years I’ve enjoyed using it to connect with everyone from my grade and high school friends to college friends to extended family members and past business colleagues.  I’ve shared family photos, tons of toddler videos that only a few of my contacts really care to see, and whatever might happen to be on my mind at a given moment like “Wow…it’s snowing here in Las Vegas!”.  Ok, that one was noteworthy and just needed said …ummm… I also had to post a video of that event.



Now, I’m ready to move beyond that.  I’ve figured out how to set up and manage a group.  It was easy but I had never had the need before.  That’s why I’m telling you this now.  As of this morning, I’ve started a new group on Facebook where I hope many of us can share ideas, articles, project experiences and hopefully have some meaningful discussions.  The group is appropriately titled, “Project Managers using Social Media.”  You can search for it by name or go here to access it.  You’ll be asked to login to Facebook if you aren’t already logged in and then you click on the “Ask to Join Group” button in the upper right corner of your screen.  This is a closed group so I have to manually approve/add you to the group.  I’m new to the group option on Facebook so I went this route.  Making it closed may be overkill, but we’ll see how it goes.