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Continuing my series on social media virtues; my fun way to impart sage advice for learning good social media practices. I started with Temperance, and today for part to I will discuss Patience.

This one is easy and I have talked about it before: Don’t expect overnight success! This takes time!

Now that I have completed my series on the 7 Sins of Social Media I thought it might be beneficial to review the 7 Virtues! After all, there are two parts to every story! We have reviewed what to do to prevent bad habits, now let's look into the positive practices that should be encouraged.

I will start with Temperence. Wikipedia defines it as: constant mindfulness of others and one's surroundings; practicing self-control, abstention, and moderation. In social media this relates to listening. If you read anything about social media best practices and strategies you will no doubt have seen over and the over that the first action you should take when considering social media activity is actually inaction, or in reality, active listening!

The past week I have sent to emails to people to provide a list of listening tools. It struck as something that other people would be interested in as well!

If you read anything about social media best practices and strategies you will no doubt have seen over and the over that the first action you should take when considering social media is actually inaction, or in reality active listening! Use Google Alerts and Twitter Search to find where your community is and start watching and listening to what they have to say.

After the overwhelming success of the first boot camp on August 17th, a second Social Media Boot Camp has been schedule with all new topics for Tuesday, October 6th.

If you went the first one you will not want to miss the second. And if you did not make it to the first one, no worries, it is all new topics and another great set of speakers!

Check out Ann Evanston, Patrick Schwerdtfeger and Tyler Willis share their secrets to success on Twitter, Facebook YouTube and LinkedIn.

This all day event is not to be missed!

Register for early bird by September 28th and save $14.

I have not had time to write my own posts - ack! So I am providing a list of posts in the social media space that I think are good reads:

Trying to figure out the best social media book to read? It is difficult to find good books on the topic, so many people claim to be experts, and it is such a fast moving space, that some books can become outdated by the time the hit the shelves! Janet Fouts, has come up with a way to aid you. It's a site called the Social Media Bookshelf. It is a great reference library to check out.

I am out on vacation this week, so I asked my new friend, Frank DiCostanzo owner of the Messina Editorial Group and blogger at Writing Killer Content to guest post, or actually to allow me to re-post one of his articles. It is a great post on authenticity and personal branding. Enjoy!

I am out on vacation this week, so I asked my friend, writer and social media guru, Julie Roads of Soc Media 101 and Writing Roads to guest post, or actually to allow me to re-post of her outstanding articles. I think you will really like this as I know a common issue is finding topics for your individual and business blogs. Enjoy!

Today the final installment in my series on social media sins; this is my fun way to impart sage advice for avoiding some of the pit falls which have a way of sneaking up on you.

Today I present part six in a series on social media sins; this is my fun way to impart sage advice for avoiding some of the pit falls which have a way of sneaking up on you. Thus far we've covered Envy, Sloth, Wrath, Greed and Gluttony. Today I am going to talk about Pride.

Today is the giveaway for the new Chris Brogan and Julien Smith book Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust.

Thanks to everyone's comments (and patience). Does not help to have your comment form do a deep dive while you are trying to do a giveaway!