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How to Use Social Networking Sites to Drive Business
Aug 25th
Advice for small businesses on using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, and how to integrate these tools into the marketing and recruiting efforts of your company.
Consider this: It wasn’t until 1997 that the Internet reached 50 million users in the United States. Facebook gained over 100 million users in the U.S. from January 2009 to January 2010, marking a 145 percent growth rate within one year, according to research by digital marketing agency iStrategy Labs. If you’re a business owner that hasn’t embraced social media networking as a major component of your success strategy, it’s due time to hop More >
The Rise of Social Networks
Dec 5th
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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today. The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:
What’s next? For one thing: Personal Branding. According to Chad Levitt, parts of the next wave of innovation will revolve around social networks, personal brands, massive amounts of data, collaboration and making senese of it all to create value. Also, expect more internal company social networking.
Infographic courtesy of Chad Levitt at his New Sales Economy Blog
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Mashup Your Peeps – PeopleBrowsr
Dec 4th
PeopleBrowsr (I would have called it PeepBrowsr) is an online app that lets you keep tabs on your online IDs. Kinda like TweetDeck as an online application, but in addition to Twitter, you can keep track of your other online identities. If you have used TweetDeck you will get PeopleBrowsr immediately. Although it’s in Alpha, PB seems stable and very useful. Using PB you can update your networks, follow your friends, organize your favorites and search across Twitter, flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Digg, Seesmic, Identi.ca, Photobucket, upcoming and FriendFeed.
As an example of using it with Twitter, just go to PeopleBrowsr.com, click on More >
