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It’s free. Easy to use. Adaptable in all browsers. Be who you want to be, how you want to be, where you want to be…Google’s new, 3D social reality, Lively has arrived, and it’s already sending Second Life down to the pit.  More...
It's a great article that points out the power of LinkedIn, how to maximize it for building your social network, and how LinkedIn's benefit is even greater if your business is in a small town.  More...
It's time to start comparing the big global social networks on something other than unique visitors and page views.  More...
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  More...
People over age 40 participate heavily in word-of-mouth and value personal recommendations and expert opinions, but they have not embraced social networking or blogs despite being heavy users of other online services, according to a ThirdAge/JWT Boom study. Boomers want to connect and interact with others in their communities around shared inte  More...
Looking for a community that's discussing the latest social marketing trends, tools, and techniques? Check out this thread at Social Marketing Central.  More...
Small town business is an interesting challenge. You either target people in your local area and hope that’s enough, or you reach outside for customers and work to get enough attention. If you’re targeting outside your local area, there is no question. Social networking is a top way to reach beyond your geographic boundaries. If you’re looking  More...
Story from U.S. News & World Report about how niche social networking sites are becoming an essential survival tool for entrepreneurs.  More...
MySpace receives more monthly hits than Google! A total of 30 billion page views every month. If you’re a Google expert I know what you’re thinking. “Yeah right, that’s just 30 billion views of pimple-faced girls making kissy faces into mobile phone cams”.  More...
The micro-blogging platform Twitter.com seems to be a pretty popular area for online marketers to get into social networking.  More...
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  More...
From sourcing talent to building brand awareness to prospecting for customers, social networking can help you manage many aspects of your smaller business -- if you know what you're doing. Here's how to hit the goldmines and avoid the landmines as you pursue all those social networking opportunities.  More...
Business networking Web sites, or more generally, "social networking" sites with a business bent, are exploding across the Internet. If you've resisted the temptation to join or participate in any of these online communities thinking them frivolous, it may be time to reconsider.  More...
Forget Microsoft Office and Excel. Your next powerful business tool could be Facebook. Andy McAfee, a Harvard Business School professor and an expert on Web 2.0 technologies and their applications in business, argues that social networking software brings certain types of people together in a much more efficient (and potentially cheaper) way than  More...
All content sites are not created equally. That is the word from a recent Jupiter Research study that compared content sites with and without several  More...
New research suggests that most marketers continue to use traditional marketing tactics on social networking sites, and it’s affecting their return o  More...
Lending Club, the Facebook exclusive person-to-person lending service has passed the $1 million mark in loans to Facebook users. It’s similar to othe  More...
Seventy percent of today's 15- to -34-year-olds use social networking Web sites like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube, according to Reston, Va.-based  More...
McKinsey conducted a study this summer to learn more about what motivates people to participate in collaborative technologies. They surveyed 573 user  More...