photo credit: lotopspin Copyblogger: You don’t get to opt out. Businesses that think they can ignore all this “Twitter stupidity” tend to get painfully rude awakenings. The conversation will happen with or without you. You definitely don’t need to respond to every chuckle head with a Facebook account (and you shouldn’t), but you need to […]
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Sheryl Matthys was born to be in the spotlight. Entreprenuer reports that after graduating from Butler University, she worked for several TV and radio stations before moving to New York City to work on industrial videos as a commercial actress. But it wasn’t until 2001, when she got her first greyhound dog, Shiraz, that Matthys,
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ABC15.com: Kids love the Internet, but unfortunately so do sexual predators. Statistics show that nearly 100,000 of them are now on social websites chatting with minors. That concerned Mary Kay Hoal, a mother of five whose teenage daughter wanted to join one of the popular social sites her friends were on. Like any responsible parent,
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On Monday we asked readers what their guess was for how many minutes are spent on Facebook daily? 17 per cent said 75 million, 43 per cent guessed 100 million, 30 per cent 8 billion and 10 per cent selected 15 billion. More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, Facebook executive
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The following is a guest post by Veronica Fielding. As the unemployment rate rises, people are turning to social networking sites to make important business connections. Many recruiters post vacancies and search for passive candidates on LinkedIn. Facebook, one of the best-known social media sites on the Internet today, has become a valuable way of
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When building a new Web 2.0 site, especially a new social network, there’s always one hurdle that needs to be overcome – establishing a large enough userbase to make it both attractive to newcomers and worth using once you arrive. ReadWriteWeb reports that a new site, Spiffbox, thinks they have figured out how to workaround
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photo credit: William Hook Even though social media is becoming more and more relevant everywhere you look today, many business owners still feel it is important to put a face with a name whether you put a profile picture on your website or still manage to meet your clients and customers in person. People still
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Springwise: Foodie website food52 is one with an especially clear premise: 52 weeks, 52 recipe contests, and a crowdsourced cookbook to celebrate the result. Conceived in part by former New York Times food reporter Amanda Hesser–who has also written several cookbooks in her own right–the site is now on its 13th weekly contest, this time
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The following is a guest post by By Veronica Fielding of Digital Brand Expressions. Small businesses are jumping onto the social media bandwagon to promote their brands. To help them become more savvy about this medium and avoid the pitfalls, I have put together a list of best practices for communicating via social media channels:
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