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Quick Tips for Avoiding Twitter Burnout

  • April 21st, 2010 by SEM Contributor
Twitter never stops. All day long, people are Tweeting their hearts out. Keeping up with it all while making sure you’re maintaining the interest of your followers can be overwhelming. If you let it get to you, you’ll get burnt out quickly. Thankfully, there are some things you can do to avoid Twitter burnout. Start by following these tips, and… Read more

Twitter Users Don’t Like the New Advertising Plan

  • April 15th, 2010 by Bethany North
If you have been wondering how Twitter is going to make money from being such a popular website, here is your basic answer. Of course, we all recognize that many of the other large social media websites, like MySpace and Facebook, make serious money off of advertising.… Read more

The Best Business Strategies for Social Media

  • April 12th, 2010 by Bethany North
As a small or large business online, social media should be one of your main focuses. You can start out by creating several social media profiles, which will allow you the perfect platform to expand your brand and increase traffic to your website.… Read more

How Many Followers Do You Really Need on Twitter?

  • April 7th, 2010 by Bethany North
Anyone out there with an online business has probably discovered by now that Twitter is the place to be. If you are just getting started, it may seem confusing about following and getting followed, especially in how many followers you may need overall.… Read more

10 Coolest Offline Twitter’s Fail Whales

  • March 1st, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Internet realia gets more and more visibility in the “offline” (“real”) world. Here’s one genius example: awesome offline interpretations of Twitter’s fail whale: 1. Sand fail whale… Read more

Google’s Getting All Up in Your Face(book)

  • February 25th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
If you haven’t already seen it, your Facebook posts might be showing up in Google search results around the web. The search engine honcho has indeed begun to index Facebook content and has already been indexing information from MySpace and Twitter.… Read more

A ‘Buzz’ Kill For Google?

  • February 24th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
There’s not much of a buzz for Buzz, Google’s latest foray into social networking.  Some technology experts are calling it “social networking for the anti-social”, others are calling it a “social networking aggregator” that does little more than funnel information from similar sites through it, and yet others say that it’s not quite different enough from its competitors Twitter and… Read more

Social Networking Sites Lifeline For Haitian Earthquake Relief

  • January 26th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Social networking is proving to be the fastest and best means of communication between earthquake-ravaged Haiti and the rest of the world.  Both Facebook and Twitter have launched campaigns to help the relief efforts in the devastated country following the massive January 12 quake. … Read more

Whatever You Do, Don’t Tweet in Anger

  • January 12th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
I find it to be quite interesting the amount of people who have gotten in trouble over simple things like MySpace Bulletins, Facebook status updates and most recently Tweets. Venting online seems to be the fad of the day as it requires no specific audience and even after everything is over, people can still find out what got the individual… Read more

A ‘Refreshing’ Look at Social Media

  • January 4th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
The Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in America.  Fans pay almost as much attention to the commercials as they do the game.  Companies spend millions of dollars for a 30 second spot during the game, but this year, for the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not run a Super Bowl ad.… Read more