Social Networking and Marketing Websites

Trivia: “Since 1970, five players have won seven or more times in one year on the PGA TOUR. Who are they?” Answer below.

I’ve just joined the Leadership Waterloo Region alumni groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. This whole web-interconnectedness, social marketing space has me increasingly intrigued.

These blog entries are propagated, automatically, to my Facebook and LinkedIn pages. There’s heavy mention, of course, of Parmasters KW on both Facebook and LinkedIn. And I’m interested in using both sites to augment real-world-based activities to build connections to the local golf community. We believe that this will lead to increasing opportunities for Parmasters KW.

I worked away at our Temporary Event Center (TEC) at Market Square yesterday. We’ve had quite a few people pop in lately. It comes and goes. And it’s never a steady stream. Market Square is a pretty quiet space. But we are making good use of our little form allowing people to sign-up and receive our email newsletters.

Time to get back at it. I’ll leave you with another of my favourite quotes.

“Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising to one's favor all manner of unforeseen accidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


And the answer: “Jack Nicklaus (1972, 1973), Johnny Miller (1974), Tom Watson (1980), Tiger Woods (1999, 2000), and Vijay Singh (2004)”