I’ve discovered that general social networks can be complete waste of time for business. It’s that simple. Facebook is a gaming gimmick that wastes office time.
I’ve therefore decided that I’m only spending time with the “Big 4″ business social networking sites SUp.biz, Plaxo, LinkedIn, and Ecademy.
These four are without a doubt the top 4 social [...]

Continue reading...

People generally love sharing things, and Twitter has made broadcasting updates to anyone who cares to care on what you’re doing, wearing, reading, commenting on, eating, using, etc. a breeze; in 140 characters or less, even. It’s only natural to see so many users also share which music they are listening to at any given [...]

Continue reading...

Updating your Facebook profile with your blog posts is a good idea. Suppose this process being done automatically. Just post to your blog and immediately, your Facebook friends being notified.
Here is a good video tutorial that teaches you how to add your blog’s feed to your Facebook profile. That way, every time you publish a [...]

Continue reading...

An interesting article in Federal Computer Week looks at how social media are changing the face of public participation in government. Traditional public comment has citizens talking to government, and government (hopefully) listening. But social media involves people talking to each other, with government in the mix participating in the discussion.

Continue reading...

Today’s online culture is about participating in conversations and creating communities where people can share ideas. Similarly (and more traditionally), conferences create conversations between people with similar interests and common goals. As marketers, we spend a lot of time attending conferences – it seems logical that we should connect these two like items together. There [...]

Continue reading...

Facebook is not the first but is the best among social networking websites out there on the Internet.
Social networking is a byproduct that owes Web 2.0 new revolutionary paradigm and facilities. By introducing Web 2.0 as a new set of facilities, the one way information flow from websites to users changed dramatically. In Web 2.0 World Wide Web, users are not reactive robots that their responsibility is to read what website owners feed them.

Continue reading...