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 their day. Savvy small business owners can also exploit these tools to create a greater following with their customers while also appealing to new customers who are already spending time online being social. Why shouldn’t people be more social with your business and share your products and services with their friends?

Gravatar Becomes a Social Network of 22 Million In a Day « Black Web 2.0.

If you have a WordPress blog or have commented on anybody else’s blog, chancers are that you know what a Gravatar is. Now you can use that Gravatar as a way of aggregating your web presence and connecting with others. Thanks to Rasheen at Black Web 2.0 for this story.

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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 within and outside the country are fully utilizing to make and maintain contact. If you ever had any doubts about the power of personal media as a legitimate informational source, doubt no more.

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