Is Google Plus a Plus or Minus Rating? On Friday, I got my invitation to join Google plus, and with great curiosity. I started to browse around and see what it was like. When I first went into Google+, I found there was an intuitive help feature...
Twitter Advance Search Tool Local businesses missed the goldmine hidden in Twitter. This is the Twitter Advanced Search. It is very simple to use but yields benefits you never really knew it gives. Acting like a metal detector, the...
Creating a Virtual Choir Through Social Media I have just finished watching this video and at times I was moved to tears. Not only can incredible things be done using social media, but this is an example of tremendous creativity and talent and crate...
Is Squidoo Profitable Enough to Online Sellers? Squidoo offers its users many opportunities to make money online. With its built-in co-op system, you can earn money from split commissions. You can avail of this by promoting related products on your...
Squidoo Marketing Made Easy Now you can promote your niche by creating lenses in Squidoo.com. Squidoo has a lot of tools available that will help you start building a new niche and promote it quickly and creatively. Having lenses...
The Nativity - Social Media Style This is a fun video showing how the Nativity story might have happened with 2010 technology [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHNNPM7pJA]
Love Online for a Social Boomer Good news for love seekers in their 40’s and above. Surprises await you online that can truly make your heart swell with love. How long have you been looking for love? Did you try to look...
Helpful Advice for the Blogging Newbie Do you have a realm of thoughts that you want to share to the world? Whether you are a student, a mom, a CEO or a baby boomer, go blog about it! And since you’re at it, you want to climb up the...
How to Make your Social Media Presence Unique Fact: Facebook has about 500 million active users, with 50% logging in every day. Twitter has 190 million members, and are tweeting 65 million times a day. At least 90 percent of Internet users know at...
How Social Media has Positively Impacted the World In this age of social media people get to witness what’s going on globally in a matter of minutes or less. Nothing can explain this fact better than the January 2010 catastrophe that hit Haiti in...
The Ugly Side of Social Media Every good thing has its flaws and the same applies to Social Media. The world has embraced the new tools helping thousands of people to interact and distance is no longer a barrier. According to...
How to Increase ROI for your Business with Social Media... Recent conversations between my 20-something nieces and nephews include, "Have you seen my profile in Facebook?" or "Have you read Ashton (Kutcher) and Demi's (Moore) latest tweets?" Facebook and Twitter...
Making Money Using Facebook-a Success Story All of us have hopes and dreams in life. The problem is most of us are too busy doing what we feel we should be doing instead of doing what we really want. Not so for this guy... I want to introduce...
The Growth of YouTube YouTube celebrates its birthday. It is now 5 years old, and has changed the world of communication in a phenomenal way as it has evolved. Here is a video giving a glimpse of how it has developed and the...
Boomer Men are Just Happier People If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. · If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes. EATING...
Are More Baby Boomers Jumping on Social Media? As the baby boomer, my first introduction to computers that I remember was a school trip to some sort of computer exhibition. The focus seemed to be on how computers worked and there were examples of...
Is Education Adapting to Today's Digitally Savvy Students? As an educator for many years, and now a public speaker I have had conflicting thoughts about the use of technology in education and the audiences that they speak to. As part of the baby boomer generation,...
Introducing Augmented Reality At the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Yahoo have a Fancouver location. Here they have put together an application demonstrating augmented reality In this video Shane Gibson , an author of the recently published...
Social Media Etiquette – The DON’Ts You Should... The culture of social media is different and users need to understand the proper ways to behave online. Following proper social media etiquette is key to being successful online, business or otherwise....
Social Media is about Giving and Supporting Others Have you ever wondered why an "epiphany" sometimes happens in a flash of inspiration when you suddenly feel "Yes I get it!", and then at other times it is like a process or a journey that unfolds a bit...
Advertising and Marketing using Facebook Facebook boasts more than 300 million active users today. At its current pace of opening new acounts, it's not a wonder if the amount will double before the year ends. A lot more businesses are starting...
Creating your Unique Channel in Social Media One of the books I got for Christmas was "Trust Agents" by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. Imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered quite by chance that Julien Smith was speaking at the Third Tuesday...
Why Business Professionals Need to be Using LinkedIn LinkedIn is the largest social media site for business professionals. It has over 40 million members. LinkedIn is a site that enables business professionals to increase their network and connections, and...
Become the Rock Star in the Social and Media Universe... Part 2 STEP NO. 4: Search keywords to find followers in your niche, then follow them Send a tweet to someone who is not following you that is either sent directly to them or one that is about...
How to Get More Business with Social Media With the changes happening with social media, the focus has changed for business. It is far more effective to be recognized and recommended by your customers, than to promote your business through push...
Become the Rock Star in the Social and Media Universe... If you want to become The Rock Star of the Twitterverse, there are certain rules you must follow in order to maintain your status. Some are common sense, and others are possibly ones you may not think...
Examples of How Social Media is Creating Global Changes Here is the latest video in the' Did You Know' sereies, this time created in collaboration with The Economist. This one looks at how media convergence has and will affect communication in the world....
How to Make Videos Viral There are millions of videos uploaded everyday, but only a few of the actually go viral and get thousands or even millions of views. So what is the secret? It's not good content,or humour, or good quality...
The Oldest Twitter User? Twitter user Ivy Bean is 104 years old and tweets regularly. In May she only had a few followers, but now her followers are over 32,000. Ivy Bean also is active on Facebook and has already reached...
Twitter Breaks New Ground Again Kennedy Family Using Twitter for News Updates The Kennedy family have created a Twitter account to update people about the news of the memorial and funeral arrangements of Senator Edward Kennedy. The...
Social Media is Changing Our World Social media is a relatively new term and refers to different ways of interacting online such as blogs, video, podcasts, messaging, community sites, and RSS. Social media although still in its infancy...
How Best Buy Markets Using Social Media Here is a video from Barry Judge the Chief Marketing Officer at Best Buy explaining what Best Buy has learned about marketing using social media and their online marketing strategies with social media. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rTzIAWI4Ms]
UK Military encourage British Soldiers to Tweet and... On Monday the US Military officially banned US marines from using social media sites stating that to do so was a potential security breach. In contrast Britain's Ministry of Defence has encouraged British...
Facebook, Social Networking Site What is Facebook all about? Facebook is a social networking site that helps users stay in touch with friends and relatives across the world. Users sign up for a free account and can post status updates,...
Introducing Facebook- Some Interesting Facts [caption id="attachment_24" align="alignleft" width="246" caption="Facebook, the largest social networking site"][/caption] At the time of writing Facebook is the top social networking site in the world...
What is Twitter? Twitter has now become known as micro blogging platform. It is a messaging service where people can send short messages that out of the question "what are you doing?" These status updates are known as...
Expertise in Social Media Can Get You a Job Over the last few weeks I have heard several stories about organizations using Social Media to hire new employees. Increasingly. however, employees are also being hired to be on Social media sites all...
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