Social Media Secrets Posthumously from Dale Carnegie

David B. Grinberg 🇺🇸
Digital Diplomacy
Published in
6 min readMar 29, 2018

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Old Lessons for Social Success…

During the 1930s, Dale Carnegie wrote the following in his groundbreaking book, How to Win Friends & Influence People:

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” — Dale Carnegie

This is just one nugget of astute advice spanning nearly a century. Although Carnegie is deceased, his lessons live on posthumously, including on social media.

Carnegie’s decades-old best-seller is described on Amazon.com as, “Rock-solid, time-tested advice [which] has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.”

That’s because Carnegie has been instrumental in helping members of multiple generations achieve business success. In fact, his courses are still taught today worldwide. However, I’ll bet you haven’t considered this:

Carnegie’s success principles are also applicable to a new generation of leaders on social media.

The aforementioned truism is significant as the global growth of social media continues to skyrocket with hundreds of millions…

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David B. Grinberg 🇺🇸
Digital Diplomacy

Lifelong writer, prior federal government spokesman, White House staff, political appointee, civil servant. I cover a range of political & public policy issues.