Category Archives: Social Media

Google Caffeine – Much faster Index updates

Have you noticed any different search result pages lately? Google is using a new Web indexing system called Caffeine that is indexing pages on a continual basis instead of what used to be every few weeks. The impact on how you will ...

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Use Twitter to Find a Job

Social networking sites are a superb tool to connect with old friends, stay in touch with extended family, and to share news good and bad with everybody. Because a whole lot of personal information is available through some profiles, most sites recommend that we stay in touch with those we knew already. Twitter has supercharged ...

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Social Media Giants

The most popular social media sites that can be used to further your career or advertise your business are Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. All three sites constantly add users, and have wide followings in the USA and internationally. Facebook is widely seen as mainly used by families and groups of friends to stay connected over long ...

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The Influence of Social Media on Consumers

The most popular social media sites are just half a decade old, yet they have already revolutionized the way at least three generations communicate, and, as an extension of that, consume. The typical FaceBook user stays in touch with peers of their own age, their parents, and exchanges news about the kids. The lines between friends ...

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URL Shortening Services

Url shortening is a technique in the web when a web page is made available by a provider under an extremely short url in addition to the address it had originally. There are many reasons to use url shortening. One reason is to avoid lengthy, hard to remember url’s for easy remembering. Copying an extremely ...

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Short and Simple: How to Make the Most Out of Your 140 Characters

What can you do with 140 characters? Obviously, not much, but using Twitter for the past few months has somehow given you the “talent” to think of the best 140-character phrases-- that is, if you want to broadcast your ideas to the world and yet, be understandable. If Twitter allowed more than 140 characters for ...

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How Can I Help?

Its a simple phrase really, "How Can I Help?" . Do you use it often and do you really have the intention behind asking the question of others? I hear it sometimes and its used passively by those in customer service jobs. Rarely, it seems, do those ...

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Where to Get Good Social Media Icons

The Twitter bird and the blue block for FaceBook—these are but common icons we usually see on blogs and websites, and these icons are basically telling you the same thing. The Twitter bird simply tweets, “If you’ve got Twitter, follow me,” or “if you have FaceBook, join my fan page or add me to your ...

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Publishing Success Cycle

I was reading a blog post today over at Grant Griffith's BlogforProfit.com. The post lends suggestions on creating a successful publishing cycle and takes you through the thought, planning, action and promotion stages to keep you on track. Earlier this week, ...

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Social Media Revolution

I attended a conference two weeks ago and watched this video that had I had seen before. I had the opportunity to absorb some of the 'stats' that you are about to see and was blown away at some of the numbers and facts that were shared in this video. Below the video are some ...

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