Archive for Social Networking

The categories of online communities. Which one is for me?

Did you know that while 67 percent of women under 40 feel as strongly about their Internet communities as those in the physical world, only 38 percent of men said the same, according to a recent report by the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California.  Apparently, men are manifesting [...]

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Google Buzz: Generating Word of Mouth

Google launched its new social media experiment: Google Buzz, a new service that is tied to your browser, Gmail allows users to share links, photos, videos and status updates that are shown up along-side your e-mails. Have you tried it yet?  Check it out! The company aims to battle with other powerful real-time platforms such [...]

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Facebook redesign: Celebrating its 400 million active users!

Facebook has gone through a few designs, but just a few since it’s launch. It begins a new year breaking a new record: 400 million active users worldwide. WOW! That truly is a Happy Anniversary! Did you know that more than 35 million users update their status each day? You can also check out some interesting statistics about [...]

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Are customers tweeting about your business?

Using Twitter for positive Word of Mouth can be effective. But, sometimes businessmen and marketers are afraid of what customers could say about their companies on Twitter! Monitoring Twitter for mentions and comments on your brand could be challenging, but exciting. What are customers saying now? Are they more likely to give or seek information? [...]

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Launching a new business & social media

Nowadays, starting a new business is much easier than ever. The majority of the information the world is digital—we have e-mail, digital photos from camera phones, PowerPoint presentations, digital phone messages and social media with tweets, blogs, social networks, etc. So, why not start here? Why? Thanks to social media is much easier to promote [...]

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Powerful Web 2.0 Sites of 2010

Which web 2.0 site will succeed in 2010? Well… just take a look at the key elements that you have to keep in mind if you want to make it! In this article, we are going to see what some creative sites are doing to learn some stuff from them. Note that most of these [...]

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Social media and the future of news

The way we get the news is changing. Nowadays, social media has given you control over the news you consume to stay up-to-date. And here, your social media friends are becoming the most trusted sources of information. In this sense, when you want to get the news… the first thing you do now is to [...]

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Launching a new business & Social Media

Nowadays, starting a new business is much easier than ever. The majority of the information the world is digital—we have e-mail, digital photos from camera phones, PowerPoint presentations, digital phone messages and social media with tweets, blogs, social networks, etc. So, why not start here? Why? Thanks to social media is much easier to promote [...]

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Review and rating Web sites

People and small business owners are always rating something or reviewing it! Actually, it was found that the majority of small business owners (90%) and consumers (80%) are active users in some kind of review and ratings Web sites, according to the 2009 Online Ratings Survey commissioned by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell and conducted by Lightspeed Research. [...]

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