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Top 5 Tips to Increase your Social Capital on LinkedIn

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»

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LinkedIn Users Make More Money

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»

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Social Networks Are More Than Networking

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»

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New Studies Provide Insight Into Twitter Tweeters

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»

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Using Social Networking for Talent Recruitment and Training

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

How to Mobilize Your Social Media

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

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Social Networking Mentor Programs

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»

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Me 2.0-the personal branding playbook

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»

The Twitter Bug

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»

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

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 Marketing for Non-Profits

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»

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

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»

A Twitter Business Model?

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»

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Dealers Pushing Pot on Social Networks Create Legal Haze

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»

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The Big Pileup: Social Networking Sites

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»

Networking Overload

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

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Ning Revs-Up Its Social Network With Apps

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»

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Deja Vu All Over Again? III

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»

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Social Media: Does It Help or Hinder Productivity?

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»

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Are Connections or Followers more Important: LinkedIn or Twitter?

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»

Can WIkio Make Digg S*** Its Pants?

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»

Web Graffiti 2.0

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

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Map of social media recruiting

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»

Friendster Patents Social Networks

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»

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Log Into Fast Company With Facebook Connect

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»