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Mark your calendar for our very first FREE monthly teleseminar. This month’s call is “Twitter 101: Getting Started With Twitter”. We will cover the basics of using Twitter and answer such questions as, “How do I reply to someone?” or “How do I know what someone is talking about when there are so many people [...]

One of the biggest time sucker-uppers on Facebook is the myriad of apps that people send. You’ll get little green plants, good karma, invitations to fight strippers, snowballs and midgets thrown at you all disguised as gifts that you have to accept. It’s nice when your friends think about you but for a busy professional [...]

Mari Smith, Relationship and Buzz Marketing Specialist, asked on her Facebook discussion board, “What’s your Twitter username? Share here and we’ll all follow!” She received 7 pages of replies. Yet, they were all so different. How cool! The reason I am mentioning this is because I believe that there’s a lesson in that post. Mari gave [...]

Have you heard of the 30-day challenge yet? I had, twice. Both times I meant to check it out but I got busy doing other things. Well today I signed up for it. I wasn’t quite sure what it was about, but I knew it was something that I should check out. Here’s one of [...]

I read something that really put social networking into perspective. In her newsletter Coach Cristina Favreau said, “You’ve heard me work my magic in a group. Imagine what we can achieve, just the two of us…”. That’s really what social networking is all about. Working your magic for the room and enticing people to want [...]

Some people like to network face to face, others do it online. By network, I mean, getting known to people who may one day use what you have to sell or may know someone else who needs what you sell. I have heard people say they feel more productive if they get dressed in the [...]

The last post I wrote about social networking was quite a while ago. Since then I think I’ve settled into a groove with it. I found a really cool gadget called Digsby (www.digsby.com) that puts the three main ones into one place. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter now sit in my desktop tray. What’s cool is [...]

Have you ever wondered what social networking sites you should be on? There are a few main ones that you must be on – MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. You may also want to join the social networking sites that are specific to your industry. You can see in my list on the left that [...]

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