Topic: Social Software and Tagging

Top 5 Tips to Increase your Social Capital on LinkedIn

BY David Capece
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 7:23 AM

LinkedIn is a turning into a social media heavyweight — with just over 50 million users, the social networking site is turning into a must-have for professionals. Developing your social capital on LinkedIn is increasing in importance as more job-seekers flood the market. Getting a leg-up on your competition is crucial if you’re going to compete. We’ll discuss how to build your social capital by carrying on the...READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

LinkedIn Users Make More Money

BY Shelley Moore
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Nov 5, 2008 at 6:41 PM

Social networking has become an invaluable tool for businesses and individuals alike. Anderson Analytics recently confirmed that members of the business focused social networking site, LinkedIn, are likely to have a high personal ...READ»

LON SAFKO | 3 comments

Social Networks Are More Than Networking

BY Lon Safko
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jun 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM

Social networks, there's a lot of them out there and you're being invited to participate in new ones every day. There's MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn. There's eCademy, Plaxo, Ning, Bebo, Friendster. Jaiku, Orkut, Tumblr, and moore ...READ»

CHERYL CONTEE | Comment

New Studies Provide Insight Into Twitter Tweeters

BY Cheryl Contee
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 4:51 PM

Recently a couple of studies all about Twitter usage were released. This is great news to all of us working in the social media field who previously had mostly case studies and empirical experience to guide organizations in best ...READ»

CAREERS | Comment

Using Social Networking for Talent Recruitment and Training

BY Ray Williams
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM

Social networking such as Facebook, LinkedIn and others are now being used by recruiters to recruit talent and implement training.READ»

SOCIAL MEDIA | Comment

How to Mobilize Your Social Media

BY Dilithium VideoSpace
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Your Entire Social-Network Audience Is Not on a ComputerREAD»

CAREER | Comment

Social Networking Mentor Programs

BY Rachelle Handley
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 7, 2008 at 1:39 AM

Social Networking Mentor Programs Benefits A Social Networking Mentor Program (SNMP) is a Mentor Program that is hosted on a Social Networking website, such as Facebook or LinkedIn. There are 2 common ways organizations can ...READ»

DAN SCHAWBEL | 2 comments

Me 2.0-the personal branding playbook

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 9:20 AM

Whether you’re looking for your next job, positioning yourself for a promotion, or hoping to start your own business, your ultimate success will begin or end with personal branding. Targeted at college students and young ...READ»

ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 1 comment

The Twitter Bug

BY Beth Lisogorsky
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM

Recently, BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy wrote about using Facebook to "fire up" your career and employing social networking tools as a means to build out your professional network. She mentions Facebook, MySpace, and ...READ»

STEPHANIE SCHOMER | 6 comments

Women Flock to Social Networks: Will They Dump Dating Sites to "Make Friends" Safely?

BY Stephanie Schomer
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Oct 5, 2009 at 11:02 AM

Recent data shows that the number of women logging on to social-networking sites far exceeds the number of men. Information is Beautiful recently presented the information, as gathered by Google Ad Planner. LinkedIn and YouTube ...READ»

SOCIAL MEDIA | 3 comments

Social Media Marketing for Non-Profits

BY david heitman
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 6:38 PM

Chances are, you—or certainly your kids—have a Facebook profile. Perhaps you’re one of millions of Twitter users, following or being followed by others on this fast-growing micro-blogging site. Once the provenance of college ...READ»

SOCIAL NETWORKING | 16 comments

If You're Applying for a Job, Censor Your Facebook Page

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM

A new CareerBuilder survey reveals that prospective employers use social networks more than ever to check out job applicants--45% of them--and they use Facebook more than LinkedIn. What's even more interesting is how they're using ...READ»

ENTREPRENEUR | Comment

A Twitter Business Model?

BY David Mullings
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 12:03 PM

BusinessWeek has a great article that is bound to be very popular - The Trouble With Twitter. The article points out real issues with the service which doesn't seem to have a business model (GigaOm posited that maybe they ...READ»

TWITTER | 5 comments

Dealers Pushing Pot on Social Networks Create Legal Haze

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jul 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM

Who knew Twitter, Facebook and MySpace were gateway drugs? It started off as something social, but now some California medical marijuana dispensaries are using the popular social networks to update their clientele, and anyone else ...READ»

CAREERS | Comment

The Big Pileup: Social Networking Sites

BY Tom Musbach
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Nov 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM

Metaphors abound in descriptions of social media sites today. They are "exploding," the "next big thing," the "new media revolution." Here's another that will be familiar to anybody who watches football: They're the center of a big ...READ»

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT | 2 comments

Networking Overload

BY Scott Kirsner
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:48 AM

Meet "snam," the junk email generated by social networking.READ»

SOCIAL NETWORKING | Comment

Ning Revs-Up Its Social Network With Apps

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu May 7, 2009 at 11:51 AM

For a little over three years, Ning has offered its platform for users to create their own online social networking sites. Now the company is adding a serious upgrade: Developers of each social network site will gain access to new ...READ»

NETWORKING | Comment

Deja Vu All Over Again? III

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 30, 2003 at 1:45 PM

More fodder for FC Now readers' consideration of social software and its potential business benefits: BusinessWeek recently took a look at Friendster's success.READ»

CAREERS | Comment

Social Media: Does It Help or Hinder Productivity?

BY Ray Williams
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 5:53 PM

Does the use of social media in the workplace benefit organizations and educational institutions and help productivity or hamper productivity? That's a question many leaders and educators are debating in organizations, even while students and employees immerse themselves in social media for both personal and business purposes. This article will examine both sides of the question, and show how it's clearly connected to a much bigger question of organizational change.READ»

BLOGGING | Comment

Are Connections or Followers more Important: LinkedIn or Twitter?

BY David Capece
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 7:25 AM

In early April 2009, we witnessed a social media milestone: Ashton Kutcher collected 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. Since then, Oprah has begun tweeting and the microblogging site has been the social network darling of the mainstream media. What does it mean to have a network on Twitter? Could Ashton Kutcher ever collect 1,000,000 connections on LinkedIn? Probably not. But why?READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 6 comments

Can WIkio Make Digg S*** Its Pants?

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Mar 2, 2007 at 12:50 PM

Wikio is the next well-financed social media tool that relies on the wisdom of the crowd to generate content in similar fashion as both Digg and Netscape. The Luxembourg-based media search company, recently secured $5.3 million in ...READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING | 1 comment

Web Graffiti 2.0

BY Lucas Conley
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:59 AM

A new application based on social bookmarking lets humans, as opposed to algorithms, index the Web.READ»

CAREERS | 1 comment

Map of social media recruiting

BY Chris Russell
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 9:44 AM

In honor of Robert Scoble's social media starfish, I created a recruiting version called the social media recruiting starfish. These are tools any employer can use to promote themselves and attract candidates. READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 5 comments

Friendster Patents Social Networks

Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jul 7, 2006 at 4:10 PM

Struggling website Friendster recently managed to patent a general form of online social networking. The patent, which Friendster initially filed when the site still had a respectable following three years ago, covers an online ...READ»

FACEBOOK CONNECT | 35 comments

Log Into Fast Company With Facebook Connect

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Feb 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Not a member of Fast Company, but want to connect and share with other members on the site without setting up yet another social profile? Well, we've got a solution, and it's called Facebook Connect. We've hooked it up so that you can ...READ»

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