Google Experimental Labs has been testing its +1 feature, similar to a Facebook “Like” for a few months now. For those participating in the experiment, a +1 box at the end of each website’s title on a search engine query display allowed them to give their digital stamp of approval to sites they enjoy. So […]
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Social Media Trends in Europe and Russia
The use of social media is certainly not limited to the United States alone. In fact, for some internet users, social media networks may have been their first experience in connecting to someone outside of their own local, state, or even country. Russia has a significantly different social media audience in the simple fact that […]
Transparency & Social Media
Embracing social media 100% may be the best investment, you as a business owner, can make for your company and brand. However, businesses already renowned in the social media world, can also be considered pioneers of this method of advertising and marketing. Although many have heard of the benefits, fear of possible damage may have […]
Social Media For Recruiting
It wasn’t long ago that social media was defined solely as a way to learn how a friend just ate at a great restaurant or who was getting engaged. However, social media continued its evolution and became particularly useful for companies to locate, recruit, and learn about candidates for open positions. Using social media for […]
Social Media is Saving Lives & Raising Awareness
Has social media proved itself beneficial to your business? What if it actually saved your life or the lives of your children? Would you be a believer then? Haiti Earthquake We heard plenty of stories after the earthquake in Haiti last year of survivors under the rubble tweeting their locations, pleading for rescue. We may […]
Klout Measures Your Clout On LinkedIn Social Business Network
Have you ever wondered how your resume stacks up against others with much the same experience as you? Fortunately, Klout, the startup that previously only measured a person’s influence across the social media board, and LinkedIn, the business-related social networking site, has now partnered up to allow users to see their own influence when it […]
LinkedIn and Klout join the Social Button Revolution
There does seem to be a button for just about anything digital these days. The Google +1 button provides a promotional value similar to Facebook’s “Like” button, and savvy blog readers will realize right off the bat if they have come upon an outdated blog if they arrive to one that doesn’t provide buttons to […]
Crowdsourcing
Outsourcing is already an old word, and we all know what it means – sending jobs to countries where the labor is cheaper than in the US. The new worldwide pool of cheap labor, they say, is called Crowdsourcing.It means taking a task, especially in software design, and putting it out there to the world […]
New Creative Commons Option for YouTube Fans
YouTube recently released some new options in creative commons licensing for their uploading fans. Users will now be able to choose to license their videos under CC BY or to retain the default option of Standard YouTube Licensing. In human terms, CC BY is the ability to share, remix, or make commercial use of the […]
Tweet Tools: Increase Your Twitter Productivity with TweetSpinner
If your direct messages inbox is full of auto-follow spam messages or otherwise delayed or old information, you are probably like most other Twitter users that do not have TweetSpinner. Direct Messaging Inbox Archiving TweetSpinner provides more control over many important elements of managing your Twitter account fully, accurately, and lucratively. It will allow you […]