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A Properly Executed Facebook Fanpage Can Help Your Business

  • October 10th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Every business needs a social marketing plan. Social media has become as needed a tool as the telephone. Yes, if you are not using social media, you might as well not be using a telephone either. A properly executed Facebook Fanpage can make it much easier to grow your business and make more money. Social media is an important way… Read more

Social Media In The Car – The Pros And Cons

  • October 6th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
If you mention social media whilst driving you will often get strange looks and even the occasional “you are doing something illegal” but this isn’t always the case. You can stay logged on to both Twitter and Facebook all of the time if you are prepared to pay the right money and get the right vehicle and guess what? It’s… Read more

Facebook Privacy Blooper….Tracks Even the Logged-out Users

  • October 5th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Privacy hawks would be astonished to know that Facebook has the ability to track its users even after they logout from their Facebook profiles. The shocking revelation was made by the Australian blogger, Nik Cubrilovic. You can find more about the in depth study conducted by Nik at this link. On its part, Facebook has confirmed the finding and has… Read more

Facebook Glitch – Can People Now Tell If I Don’t Friend Them?

  • October 3rd, 2011 by SEM Contributor
People across the world love love using Facebook, and the sense of community it allows with everyone in your list of friends. Many times we build up a group of “Facebook friends”, people we’ve never met in real life and probably would not want to if we had the chance. One of the greatest features of Facebook is the ability… Read more

Facebook Faced with Lots of Unhappy Users

  • September 29th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Remember the old adage of “If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it” that many of us have known since early on in life? It appears Facebook missed the memo. The king of social media has rolled out a number of changes to user pages, leaving some of the site’s 750 million users screaming bloody murder.

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Facebook Subscribe – What Does it All Mean?

  • September 26th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Facebook have launched a new function that allows you to follow the status updates of others, regardless of being their friend. This new subscription service is a part of Facebook’s on going effort to give their users more control over what they have in what is currently an already cluttered news feed. Facebooks attempt to allow subscribing to celebrity accounts… Read more

The World’s Top Ten Social Networks

  • September 21st, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Social Networking has become a global phenomenon over the past 8 years and continues to grow year on year. So we’ve all heard of the big players like Twitter and Facebook, but there are thousands of Social Networking sites out there, many of which have been left by the wayside since the introduction of Facebook. Let’s take a look at… Read more

Facebook Translate Button will Improve Online Communication

  • September 8th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Microblogging site Twitter made headlines this month when a team of volunteer translators added two more languages – Filipino and Malay – to the site’s translation centre, meaning the site is now available in 13 different languages. Not to be outdone, rival social network Facebook is reportedly preparing a Facebook Translate feature that will break down linguistic barriers among the… Read more

Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus – Can We Really Compare Them?

  • August 30th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
This is clearly the age of being a netizen, so much so that you will find even your next door 12-year old being busy doing something with his keyboard. Take a closer look and I am sure you will find him doing what most grown-ups like doing. Social networking! There have been a host of social networking sites, like those… Read more

How to Build the Next Facebook

  • August 23rd, 2011 by SEM Contributor
I write this at a time where Facebook has decided to enter the stock market. Of course it would seem like a good idea to invest in it given it’s sheer popularity, but that is until something overtakes it, the same way Facebook has overtaken MySpace in recent years. Now what site is exactly going to overtake Facebook, well that… Read more