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The famous Dr. McCoy quote, “I’m not a (you say it), I’m a doctor!” is one that I think of often when I talk about social media sites. I often find myself saying, “I’m not a techy, I’m a marketing professional!”

The other day, I had an issue with Twitter. I clicked on one of those links that said more followers in 100 days or something like that. (There are tons of these sites on Twitter.)

When I went to the site, I was signed in as EONY (Entrepreneurs Organization NY Chapter). The site grabbed my information and started to spam all of the followers of EONY. How frustrating is that!

Since I hadn’t originally created the site, I didn’t have the email address that linked to the site. Therefore, I ended up creating another unique site with a different user name and password. (The new site is EONYC. I think it’s more applicable anyway….)

At a recent social media seminar that we had in our offices, we had a woman who kept asking us technical questions on ACT and other database type programs. Kristie Galvani, Senior VP, and I shook our heads. “We’re teaching a class about marketing, business development and social media not about how to organize your databases,” we said to each other after class.

So the next time someone asks me a technical question about a social networking site application, I’m going to say, “I’m not a technician, I’m a marketer!”

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