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Social networking sites were originally formed with the intention of building friendships and networks of like minded social contacts. However, there is no avoiding the fact that these same websites also offer businesses the opportunity
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Worldwide statistics of social networking usage were recently released by comScore indicating the rate of growth by region of the world between 2007 and 2008. Before I show you the chart though, I want to highlight the fact that on a worldwide scale the use of social networks increased at a 25% rate compared to last year.
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Facebook has undergone a face lift! claims The New York Times. The second largest social network on the Internet has undergone some changes on the member’s profile interface, which will eventually give users more control over their details, photos and personal information.
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I recently added the TwitterBar as an Add-on to my Firefox browser and love it! I posted from my address bar and sent my Twit on over (which is also linked into my FaceBook account). So someone emailed me from Facebook asking what it was and where to get it.
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How to use twitter, facebook, and other social media to market yourself, your products, and your company or brand.
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As part of a small-business network Visa designed for Facebook, the world's largest credit and debit card processor is paying for $2 million of advertising on the socializing site. Visa is giving a $100 advertising credit on Facebook to each of the first 20,000 U.S. businesses that download the Web application needed to join the network, which de
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If a potential employer uses a social networking site to check out a job candidate and then rejects that person based on what they see, he or she could be charged with discrimination.
According to Workforce.com, a site that helps HR reps stay current with all matters HR, employers who use the data available on social networking sites like Faceb
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The reason why LinkedIn is now a protagonist is because regardless of its ugly looks, unlike Facebook and MySpace which are utterly colorful, user friendly and ‘fun’ interactive, LinkedIn, with over 23 million users, is about to attain a valuation of more than $1 billion.
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Much of the valuable online-ad real estate is sold the old-fashioned way: through a salesperson.
But now start-ups and major Internet players such as Facebook Inc. are giving advertisers the option of planning, buying and tracking online-ad campaigns all on their own. Just as the ability to buy plane tickets online steered business away from tr
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More women are on social networks and on average have slightly more “friends” than do men, even though men tend to be more focused on acquiring “friends” than building relationships with them, according to a Rapleaf study of 30.74 million social networkers.
Rapleaf examined the number of friends that men and women have on Bebo, Facebook, Frien
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Where are the Starbucks, Nikes, Amazons, Home Depots and Genentechs founded by women?
This is a question that puzzles those who track fast-growing companies. Few fledgling businesses founded by men or women ever grow into giant corporations, but with women launching twice as many businesses as men, some meaningful percentage of the new giants m
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SocialMedia Networks says they’re the first ad network to focus 100 percent on social media. They have over three billion ad impressions to more than 15 million unique visitors per month. These ad impressions are delivered within 5,000+ applications and they’re appearing on Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.
I asked SocialMedia’s CEO Seth Goldstein a
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The social network provides important lessons for executives—and a key forum for innovation and experimentation
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Could Facebook ever be a place where serious business is done? Or does it pay to maintain two separate network profiles -- one for work and one for play?
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A great blog post discussing why Facebook is going down, with a great analogy about fat guys in hip new bars. Check it out!
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