Archive | June, 2009

Big Changes coming to LinkedIn

While you were busy building your network, LinkedIn was busy making a tiny but significant change. Your LinkedIn home page has taken on the newsfeed like quality of FaceBook and FriendFeed. This is a tiny change that has a huge effect. What is the big change? Gone are the neat sections dividing your content into [...]

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Twitter Equals Cash for Dell

In December of 2008 Dell sold 1 million dollars worth of computers using Twitter. Just a small dent in the numbers, but the first real statistic on why your business needs to be using Twitter. Flash forward to June 2009 and Wired is reporting that Dell has made 3 million dollars from Tweets and grown [...]

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FaceBook steps up the game

As if 200 million plus users, 15 billion plus photos uploaded and 160 thousand plus videos being uploaded a day was not enough…FaceBook is bringing “handles” to you. Get your name…don’t delay or you will wind up being joesixpack2009 on FaceBook. Why do you care? Having a username will make it easy to direct traffic [...]

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MySpace – Don’t Sleep

It is too easy to scoff at MySpace and refer to it as the ghetto of social media. You are crazy to ignore MySpace, there is a vibrant active community of people engaging in social and professional networking. MySpace is a huge network with a lot of noise. You must work hard to cut through [...]

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Fun with Images

I was checking out some images and remembered Wordle. This image is based on the introduction to my eBook on Social Media. I am still working on a title, should be easy right? The good news is if you have read thru the Blog you can skip most of the book. The even better news [...]

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FriendFeed – Where the conversation is happening

FriendFeed is a website that starts as an aggregator of all of your online activity and enables you to publish directly to your profile. You can pick and choose what activities link up to FriendFeed and get published under your profile. I have my Tweets, Flickr photos, Blog Posts and shared Google Reader Posts flowing [...]

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