When I started creating my own blogs and websites, I always set up Facebook pages and links as an element of good practice, but that’s been about it. Despite preaching about delivering valuable content, engaging in conversation etc, they’ve been left while I concentrated on building effective social media practices for the various companies (and now clients) which I’ve worked for…

So it was a nice and somewhat surprising boost to see first TheWayoftheWeb on Facebook, and then OnlineRaceDriver on Facebook both top the 50 Likes mark. And a fair proportion of those people liking what I (and the rest of the OnlineRaceDriver team) do are not existing friends of mine.

Now I know that there has been a lot of debate over the value of someone liking on Facebook, following on Twitter, or signing in via Google, but here’s the value to me. Every time someone makes that bit of effort to show a bit of support, it gives me five times the motivation to keep striving to improve what I do, offer more value, and keep going with projects which can sometimes be frustrating, are always time-consuming, but equally give me back massive amounts in terms of social media support, comments, incoming links and connecting with new people.