Social Networks Are Essential For Your Business

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New Way to Measure Social Media Effectiveness

Social media, which includes sites such as Facebook and Twitter, is a very effective way of building an online business. ShareThis has social media share buttons all over the web and located in many different kinds of content. Every month, 400 million people are reached through the ShareThis buttons.... More »

Free Analytics Tool for Business Twitterers

Soon, those who use Twitter to help their business will have access to a very valuable tool and flow of information. Sometime during the fourth quarter of this year, Twitter will be releasing a real-time analytics dashboard. This could be extremely useful for your online business. Amazingly the.... More »

Official "Tweet Button" Launched By Twitter

Attention web site owners! Sharing your content with the world just got a lot more simple. With Twitter's launch of the Tweet Button, users can now share links directly from the page they're on. Instead of copying and pasting the link into Twitter's website, or shortening links, users only have to.... More »

Assignment: No Social Media For One Week

Students in residence at Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg University of Science and Technology have an unusual assignment. They are banned from all social media for one week, outside of email. That means no Twitter updates from class and no Facebook status checks during lunch break. The university h.... More »

Chatter Goes Mobile

About 20,000 companies can't be wrong. Salesforce has created a mobile version of its popular enterprise social networking platform. Users with a Blackberry, Android, iPod Touch, iPhone, or Ipad will be able to take advantage of Chatter Mobile. Chatter Mobile is designed to allow you to be able.... More »

Nearly everyone who has heard about the Internet, or has a child proficient enough to educate them, has heard about social networks like MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. There are new ones springing up almost every day and there is some question as to which will be the most helpful for business development purposes. Time will only tell.

Many companies haven’t been persuaded on the legal marketing ROI relative to these sites generally, nor have they heard that they currently produce serious amounts of work for business. Yet, some are definitely coming around to the point of view that social networks will become one more important tool in the marketing toolbox.

Work on beefing up your LinkedIn biography. If you want to be the leader for your profession, it seems more businesses are joining it than other networks these days.

Evidence for the importance of social networks was reported in a survey by Universal McCann that shows the popularity of social networks, RSS feeds and blogs. It does seem clear that a web site is no longer enough of an Internet presence. And some say that if you’re not participating in social media, you’re business is not really online.