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Are You LinkedIn? Is it Worth Doing?

LinkedIn.com has emerged as a top social media site for professionals. If you are in a consultative sales position, recruiting high quality talent, or looking for your next opportunity, it is a great place to have your profile displayed. It is also important to do it the right way, for the purpose t

Basic Facebook Features

There are different features that Facebook can offer its members and some of these are the most basic ones that can also be seen in other social networking variations. Even if it seems these features are unique to the system, it is not that unique when compared with other applications.

Diatribe, The New Internet Standard

I often find we are sometimes disrespectful; when tempers escalate using reply and comment, some begin to describe people and events with hate fueled diatribe. I do not believe, because I have certain convictions or beliefs, anyone, or I should be subjected to this type of behavior on the internet o

7 Steps to Sell Your Boss on Social Media Marketing

With words like "tweet," "blog" and "unfriend" entering our standard lexicon, there's no question that social networking has a significant place on our contemporary culture. And it's no surprise that many companies have been using social media online to connec

The App Revolution

New Web Applications and tools keep coming out faster and fresher. They can make your life online more efficient and fun.

Using SEO Vs Singularity to Clear Your Google Reputation

After writing a book my co-author and I received dozens of emails and phone calls from people claiming to be in the online reputation management business. Most of them were offering the same basic services: using spam-like SEO strategies to push bad online posts deeper into Google or other search en

Facebook Offers Up 'Like' Button For Your Site Or Blog

Have you seen them? Millions of websites and blogs are now boasting them on their pages. Facebook recently launched a new feature called the "Like" button. Now, I'm not talking about the "Like" links under each status update - I'm talking about the "Like" butt

Marketing Your Products At Facebook

Getting a Facebook account might just be for fun, but once you start posting information about yourself, the fun can cease to exist. Part of owning an account at any social networking site will involve lots of care. While social networking sites are where people hang out once online, care must still

How To Be Remarkable With Social Media

Social Media has become a tremendous game changer for all industries. It can be overwhelming and confusing... if you don't have a plan. In this article, there are some helpful ideas and tips to manage this area of marketing.

Business Connections - Facebook Style Networking For Profit

Building a reputation on your Facebook fan page is important. Brand recognition drives traffic, builds business and drives your identification forward. Stop at nothing to be recognized with a network connection that you manage for your own best interests.

Didn't Get Hired Because of Facebook? You're Not Alone

According to recent surveys, 70% of surveyed HR workers in the U.S. admitted to rejecting a job applicant because of his or her internet behavior. For the most part, these "internet behaviors" refer to the posting of inappropriate photos and content on social networking sites like Facebook

The Social Network Advertising Advantage

f you have yet to discover the social network advertising advantage then you might want to consider checking it out. Social networks add as many as 10,000 new users in a day. You can find businesses and causes that add more than 100 new fans, followers, and friends to their platform every day. What

SEO Versus Social Media, Which Is Better For Your Online Business?

Hundreds of businesses are joining the social media revolution each day in a bid to get their online businesses moving forward and attracting high levels of traffic and sales. There is no doubt that social media is now an important part of any businesses marketing armoury and if your business is not

Social Media Etiquette!

Social media is a great way to get web traffic and increase your web presence today but if you don't use it properly, it can do more harm than good. One kiss of death in social media is to not practice proper etiquette. This can get you removed from friends' lists, blocked by users and eve

Effects Of Excessive Use Of Social Networking

As a student at Harvard in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched an on-campus popularity website that later transformed into a multi-million dollar corporation we now know as Facebook. Being a young, 20-something student he would have never thought that his project would eventually become a worldwide addic

Facebook is Like Comfort Food For the Sole

This social network site allows people to connect with their past and present. Who would have ever thought that in our lifetime we would be able to unite with old friends and family we lost touch with over the years, and actually catch up no matter where they live in the world. In my opinion this is

Boost Promotions With The Use Of Social Media

These days, there are hundreds of product launches along with contests to boost promotions. It seems as if everyone has turn into an expert and is launching some new method or idea and promoting it for a minimal time period. Most gurus work with a combination of these two trends in order to sell mor