Social Networking

How To Edit Your Company Profile on LinkedIn

At the beginning of November LinkedIn released some new features for their Company Profile section. Linkedin now allows businesses to add services and products to their company profiles, solicit customer endorsements for company products and services, as well as the ability to "follow" companies. There is now a "Follow Company" button displayed on the company profile page. Selecting to "follow" a company allows you to keep up to date on when employees of this company leave, join, or get promoted...

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Brent Nau 12/1/2010 12:00:00 AM Comments(0)

Get Social With Ecommerce Receipts

The integration between social networks and search engines is going to start to impact traditional search engine optimization techniques. There has been more and more social influence being built into the search algorithms in order to present better search results to the end user. Just take a look at Bing's Instant Personalization program . Businesses of all sizes need to become aware of these impacts and understand how being a part of social networks can help their business succeed online. Besi...

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Brent Nau 11/16/2010 12:00:00 AM Comments(0)

Twitter URL Wrapper

Twitter has hinted at releasing their own URL shortener for sometime and they now have done so. Twitter recently implemented the t.co URL shortener...err URL wrapper. The t.co is not really a URL shortening service, but an URL wrapper. So what is an URL wrapper and how does it differ from an URL shortener? The Twitter URL wrapper will sometimes convert the link to a t.co link or it may just shorten the actual link length. Twitter uses this example: Original URL http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-H...

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Brent Nau 10/5/2010 12:00:00 AM Comments(0)

Few People Using Location-Based Social Networks

Forrester Research recently released a report, Location-Based Social Networks: A Hint Of Mobile Engagement Emerges , that noted there were only a few million consumers using geolocation apps on a monthly basis. Location-based Social Networks include such sites like Foursquare, Gowalla, BrightKite, and Dopplr. The report states that only 4% of adults have used a location-based social network and only 1% haved used it more then once. The profile of a location-based social network users: Male 19-35...

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Brent Nau 7/27/2010 12:00:00 AM Comments(0)

What Google Social Search Means For Companies

Google has just launched Google Social Search . Google Social Search is a new feature that will pull in relevant information from people within your online "social circle". Google is going to display this information within the organic search results under a new section called "Results from people in your social circle." For this to work the user needs to be logged into their Google account. Google will then use the Gmail address book, articles from your Google Reader subscriptions, data from Go...

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Brent Nau 10/27/2009 8:47:00 AM Comments(0)

Bing Strikes a deal to include facebook updates in its search results.

To update your privacy settings, click on Privacy settings and adjust these options:...

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Ken Moody 10/21/2009 3:02:00 PM Comments(1)

Advertise on Twitter - What You Need to Know

The topic of advertisements on Twitter is one that is controversial. Some users hate the idea, others think it is the natural evolution of Twitter. While Twitter does not have any official means to allow companies to advertise on Twitter, there are several third-party companies that do. Currently Twitter is really trying to educate companies about how to effectively use Twitter. There has been some speculation that Twitter is going to try to generate money through various add-on tools and servic...

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Brent Nau 7/27/2009 4:27:00 PM Comments(0)

Twitter Contributes to Globalization

If you are asking yourself, What exactly is globalization? -- Well, here is my understanding of it… globalization has been and most likely will always be an ongoing process that eliminates borders between nations and allows an interconnectedness between nations. For example, 20 years ago it would have been very difficult for me to speak with someone from across the nation. Now with the internet, I am able to speak instantly with others around the globe. There are many factors that contribu...

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Jonathan Crowe 2/27/2009 4:24:00 PM Comments(0)

Is MySpace going to speed up adoption of IE7 and Firefox?

It looks as if Myspace is strongly encouraging people to upgrade their browsers to either Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox. Now I must admit I'm not a huge MySpace user also I use primarily IE6 for my work from home and save IE7 and Firefox for my time in the office where I would lean more to being an early adopter than at home. When you log into MySpace with IE6 you get the following "MySpace recommends upgrading to IE7" screen shot: MySpace hits you again if you attempt to use their ...

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Dennis Dornon 12/7/2008 10:07:00 PM Comments(1)

Using LinkedIn for Introductions

Dave's Network Status Report: 56 direct connections, 1000+ friends of friends, 210,200+ total network Dave's Quick LinkedIn Tip: Be sure to add your photo on LinkedIn. You want people attempting to contact you to know they have the right person. After sending out the invitations, I heard from some old friends. It was great catching up. In the pile was a very large business opportunity. It was so large we couldn't even attempt it. What can you say, you can't get them all. It was an honor to...

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Dave 11/7/2007 12:17:00 AM Comments(0)

Social Networking And Your Business

Social networking sites have become big business because of the sheer traffic volume many of the larger sites are bringing in, including MySpace.com , FaceBook.com , LinkedIn.com , WetPaint.com , MerchantCircle.com , and YouTube.com . What is very appealing to many businesses is the typical demographics of these sites; young with lots of disposable income. So how, or can, your business take advantage of these social type site? First, know your target market, which you probably already do. Not ...

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James 4/27/2007 8:13:00 PM Comments(1)

Top Social Bookmark Sites List

I was curious as to which social bookmarking sites were the most popular. I took the list of social bookmark sites from TopRank Social Bookmark Link Creator and plug them into Alexa Traffic Rank to see. Digg - 100 Del.icio.us - 147 Technorati - 247 Reddit - 1411 Furl - 2357 BlinkList - 4002 Spurl - 9870 Magnolia - 11536 Blogmarks - 12538 Shadows - 15021 Simpy - 16669 Rawsugar - 22406 Onlywire - 23680 Wink - 29121 Connetea - 29538 Blinkbits - 30773 Netvouz - 30958 Gravee - 39647 Citeulike - 41924...

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Brent 8/5/2006 12:00:00 AM Comments(0)

LinkedIn Experiment Update

Just the quick update on the LinkedIn Experiment. I am now up to 89 1st Tier direct connections, 15,100+ 2nd Tier connections and a total network of 1,483,300. Not bad for someone not very active. LinkedIn has added some new features to their service. You can do Twitter-like updates and they now have an iPhone app for Mobile updates. I guess the folks at LinkedIn realized they needed to do something to make it more interactive. Otherwise, people have no real reason to return except to update the...

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Dave Larson 1/1/1980 12:00:00 AM Comments(1)

Getting Connections on LinkedIn (Continued)

I sent out 89 invitations in the first shot. The LinkedIn system is very nice. It shows you if the invitation is undeliverable. A great way to clean up your list. I had to follow up on a few and get updated email addresses. After scaring up a few more email addresses, the total was up to 95 invitations out. The next day, I got a bunch of calls and emails asking... "What is this?" and "Did you really send this to me?" I think after I explained all but one did set up a LinkedIn account. Here is wh...