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9 LinkedIn Tactics For More Professional Connections

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site.   It was launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking and that’s where LinkedIn separates itself from the other social networking sites. LinkedIn is a social network site where people can find jobs by creating an interesting profile and companies can find employees scanning these profiles. [...]

Digg It – 8 Digg Tactics For More Traffic

Digg is an important social media site (http://www.digg.com). People visiting Digg can discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, submitted by other Internet users. They can even vote and comment on submitted links and stories. If you vote for a story, then that’s called a Digg. Voting against a story is a Bury. [...]

Social Networks: Can You Still Follow?

About two weeks ago, I signed up for Plurk (my profile). I liked it, since, in contrast to Twitter, it’s easy to follow conversations. Te-Ge just published a great intro to Plurk: 10 Minute Guide to Plurk. And only yesterday, Steven Humphrey invited me to a new social network called Fast Pitch. I signed up [...]

Why Twitter Is Not Stupid!

I just read Mark Butler’s post ‘Twitter is Stupid‘ on Courtney Tuttle’s blog. Woohoo, it’s creating dust already! I do not agree with Mark, but I certainly can relate to some of the objections he has about Twitter. Before going in to that, let me admit that I’ve managed to limit my time on social [...]

Spend Much Time On Social Networking?

Only recently I posted about how to use Facebook effectively. In that post I indicated that there are too many features that are distracting and take up too much of my time. The same applies to other social networking platforms. Mind you, they’re all great to build a network and I certainly recommend using them. [...]

How To Use Facebook Effectively

It’s been very busy at Facebook since John Reese sent out his requests to add him to your friend list. It seems as if suddenly everyone has discovered all the different applications that are available at Facebook and trying them out. At least, that’s how it looks to me. I’ve been added in Facebook Top [...]

No Need To Attract A-Bloggers Attention

Many bloggers try their utmost to attract attention from A-bloggers. No need for that. Some A-bloggers just come to you! Yesterday, Darren Rowse of Problogger conducted a nice experiment on Twitter. He asked his followers to nominate their best post from the last week with a URL and Title and promised to ‘Re-Tweet’ the best [...]

Twitter Thoughts And DoshDosh

I’ve been constantly lurking on Twitter for a couple of weeks now. Occasionally posting a message and interacting with some other Twitters. To follow what’s going on, I also installed Twhirl, a free software program that pops up at your desktop if tweets are issued by those persons you are following on Twitter. My experience [...]