Why Small Businesses Shouldn’t Take Social Media for Granted. There is a way to do social media right if you’re a small business owner. Most people spend a lot of time on Twitter, Facebook, and other sites keeping up with friends and sharing links and pictures from everyday things that happen in the course of [...]
According to a recent article by The Network Journal, U.S. law enforcement agents are using popular social-networking services according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a perspective of future issues related to law and rights. The document, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, makes clear that U.S. agents are exchanging messages [...]
Most Innovative Companies | The Fast Company Blog | Fast Company. As you build your business and benchmark your brand, products, and processes against the best of the best, consider a recent article by Fast Company on the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Some of the usual suspects are present–Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google–but there are some [...]
While the networking potential of Facebook is unparalleled, a consistent drawback for users of this and other social networking sites are lackluster messaging components. Facebook’s current version does not allow users to organize messages in any meaningful way. There are now rumors that the site plans to launch full webmail tools in the near future. [...]
As Facebook continues to dominate social networking, entrepreneurs are relying more and more heavily on Fan Pages to promote their business. According to Entrepreneur columnist Mikal Belicove, it may not be time to drop your blog just yet. Branding. A Facebook Page poses limitations to attaching your company logo throughout, while a blog gives you [...]
New technology trends continue to evolve the way we do business in the information age. Does your corporation frown on the use of IM, or encourage Tweets to monitor productivity and group collaboration? Is it good etiquette to conduct business over Facebook instead of via email? (Does anyone remember BlackPlanet?) Today’s entrepreneur must often spend [...]
Image of Black Twitterati Black Twitterati posted this entry on their blog about Social Media @ Work: Crisis in Haiti. Donations via text messages, twitter updates and pictures and websites are reaching out and providing assistance where the damaged infrastructure is simply unavailable. Facebook and YouTube are becoming media outlets that family and friends both [...]
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