How to Integrate Your Social Media Efforts Into Your Daily Emails
If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? To those of us who are active on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and other social media sites, a question that we will often ask ourselves is whether anyone is actually listening to the few nuggets of wisdom that occasionally spill out of our fingertips and onto our keyboards. And with so much competition for attention out there, how can we get our messages in front of the people that we most care about -- those with whom we're already doing business but with whom we want to do more?
One answer to this dilemma is to include links to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and other social media sites in every email that you send out so that the people with whom you're already working with will regularly be reminded where and how they can find your tweets, updates, blog articles, etc. But short of including some nasty, "read my blog" and then linking to your main page, how do you remind them in a way that will entice them to click to read your content yet also not steal the thunder from the body of your email? The solution that I use is WiseStamp.
WiseStamp is a signature creator for those who use web mail programs such Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! mail, and AOL mail. It is available as a free download but the creators request a donation so they can eat. Features include:
- Personally designed signatures
- Easy setup and configuration interface
- Use multiple email signatures (Business and Personal)
- Rename signatures
- Signature Rich Text editor (WYSIWYG Editor-choose color and font)
- Add your personal feeds (rss)
- Add your logo or image to your signature
- Automatically insert your signature to your webmail services
- Supports to all webmail functions- Compose Mail, Reply, and Forward
- Easily Include all your IM (Instant messaging) ID's + Icons
- Easily link to all of your Social profiles & Services + Icons (see list below)
- Manually add your signature at mouse cursor location
- Preview while editing Signature
- Simple control- switch signature on/off
- Support for special characters
Advanced Features:
- Option to treat each signature as HTML
- Full Ltr & Rtl languages support
- Add your personal signature to any online Html supported page (Google Docs...etc)
- Supports Firefox 2 & Firefox 3 !!
I use Gmail as my primary web mail program and, thanks to WiseStamp, this is how my signature appears when I compose / create a new email (the title of the most recent blog article automatically appears as a hypertext link):










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