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Government Agencies Who Use Social Media

It’s a true fact that social networking media has shown remarkable performance in grabbing the attention of people. Through social networking, people are able to know about what they are and what types of opportunities they can obtain to promote their network. You would have seen several social media network where people like to know about each other and want to make longer relationships. In this manner, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are on top of list where people want to share their...

Why Should I Use Social Media?

I have been often hearing people asking this question, “Why should I use social media?” This reminded me the time, 5 years after the Internet boom, where everyone were asking “Why must I own a web site?” This also brought me back to an old question “Why should I email you when I could just affix a stamp and mail it out? OK, maybe no one remembers the old email address question, but I heard that when email was first introduced, most people were appalled with the idea of using email...

Ford’s Latest Social Media Strategy

Image via Wikipedia Ford has realized the power of connectivity that social media provides to people and its extension to the promotion of products and brands promotion. It is becoming easier and easier to interact with each other. As we all looking for human interaction, social networks help us satisfy this urge. The profile creation by Ford is a strategic move for promotion on popular social networks such as Twitter and  Facebook etc helps in two ways. It gives them a...

Dell Blogging: Idea Storm to Employee Storm

Dell targeted around 80,000 employees working with them. Their aims seemed to be the changing of the culture of work inside the company regarding ‘email’ and deal with the tools in social media which are generally popular. They aimed at reduction of the constant email traffic and make the discussions among employees transparent. The two parts to the plan included: 1) Blogs: The internal blog zones were created which were based on initial blogs situated externally of Dell. This...

The Power and Value of Social Networking

2009 had become an era where traditional marketing strategies had almost become absolute. Companies and consumers had stated using social networking as it allows users to reach anyone anytime with a specific and personalized message. From a marketer’s perspective, this is definitely more valuable than one strategy which constraints you by only sending a single message to the entire network. There are 3 value-governance laws that speak to the fundamental value of a network from the...

Facebook Users Get To Own Personalized Usernames

Facebook has finally decided to give its users an easier way to share their profiles. In about two days, the social network will let users chose an alias for their Facebook profile on a first-come, first-serve basis. On Saturday June 13 at 12.01 a.m. Eastern Time, you can grab a username of choice that will redirect to your Facebook profile. Anyone who joined Facebook before usernames were publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on June 9, 2009 will only be eligible to claim usernames on...

How Social Media Can Help Your Business?

Image by deanmeyersnet via Flickr The world as we know it has changed forever with the emergence of the Internet. We now have access to people, places, technologies and information through a single click. There's a whole new world out there to engage, interact with and inform using online social media tools. In today's business scenario, social media offers an easy, affordable and effective way to connect with your target audience and create brand awareness. Whether you run a large...

21 Popular Social Media Websites for Business

There are a great number of social media websites online, more than 500 websites. You want a community that gives you fresh news on topics you care about. You want something that sends prospects and traffic while branding your business. You want a social media website with a long term returns on investment. But most of the social media websites are dormant and are no longer active because they were poorly marketed and thus a limited community of users. Some of the websites are even riddled with...