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Let’s say you own a fairly new business, where should you spend your time and money to generate sales – social networking or pay per click?
I feel that social networking is an excellent way to connect with prospects and engage clients. I love Twitter, Facebook, and blogging, but will these avenues generate immediate sales for [...]

If you use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, a blog, and other online news and link sharing tools you are ahead of the curve and taking full advantage of some of the newest ways to drive traffic to your website, connect with readers, and share news and information. If you are not doing these things, should you [...]

I just checked this out yesterday and as I was doing testing on this new Google.com tool I said to myself, “now, this is really cool”. What I am speaking about is Google’s integration of your own social media networks into your personal search results.  To get involved in the project sign into Google.com and [...]

You can sign up for early access to Google Wave here.  What is Google Wave? Well to me, it looks like Twitter-Google.com-AOL IM-Flkr-Facebook all rolled into one interface. You can read what Google says about it and see screen shots on the Google website for the application.
To me it looks like the next generation of [...]

Do you have Twitter fatigue yet? Personally I use Twitter more to share my quick thoughts about once a day now instead of about every 15 minutes or so. What I do like about Twitter is that I can feed my comments now to LinkedIn, by blog, and Facebook automatically.
That means when I do a [...]

You just can’t fake it when it comes to social networking. Sorry, it’s just not something that you can farm out to someone to do for you, you just have to do it yourself.
In fact that is the real value of social networking versus blogging or your website, it is you reacting with other people [...]

Have you ever wondered what your kids are saying in their IM sessions or on games chatting with friends with those strange acronyms? Well no need to wonder any more I am going to give you a quick run through of all the acronyms I see most frequently.

LoL – laugh out loud
WTF -  you might want [...]

This tip is for all new Facebook users that can’t seem to find out how it all works. Don’t worry, I had the same problem when I first started to use Facebook. The transition form MySpace to Facebook was strange.
Step one, on uploading pictures, first, find the “Photo” link on your screen. It should be [...]