May 17, 2012

Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs: Get your business to the next stage

As social media gets integrated into our lifestyle, its significance as a platform and a tool for marketing has increased manyfold. Social media offers a cost effective mechanism for interaction with customers for the purpose of product and brand communication, product promotion or effective customer service management. The lack of a financial obligation adds to the appeal of this medium apart from the fact that it offers an opportunity to … [Read more...]

How To Get Started With Twitter In 2012 – A guide for Small Businesses ?

Twitter isn't losing any of its marketing power. Even though the service has been around for quite a number of years Twitter continues to grow. That growth should be a sign for you to either hop on board already, or improve your Twitter marketing campagins. If Twitter is a service you haven't been using to promote your small business, you are doing it wrong. 2012 is finally here and the world hasn't been destroyed (yet). So what is your small … [Read more...]

Impact of social media on non-profit organizations

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and other social media networks are rapidly changing almost everything about our society. They’re impacting politics, commerce, dating and relationships, and most other ways in which people interact with one another. The world of nonprofit corporations – charities, activist and advocacy groups, and others – is no exception. The most obvious and perhaps least important change brought about by social … [Read more...]

BATTLEFIELD 3 – Console Vs PC

Gear up for the latest installment of the Battlefield franchise as the amazing Frostbite 2 Engine has been introduced to Battlefield 3. Dice have announced that the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of Battlefield will be running at 30 fps which has caused a disturbance in the console community. This is because the high quality game footage from the trailers have been running on a PC at 60 fps. The graphics therefore will not be the same on the console … [Read more...]

See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

WhereMyFriends is an interesting mashup that will show the geographic location of your Facebook friends on a Google Map. You simply connect your Facebook Account with WhereMyFriends and the app, within a minute or two, will fetch the location of all your Facebook friends and puts them on a map. You can hover or click on any of the pins on the Google map to see the names of all friends who are in that particular location. There’s one … [Read more...]

John Boehner to Answer Budget, Spending Questions on YouTube

Speaker of the House John Boehner will be doing a YouTube interview on Sunday, February 27 at midnight ET. YouTube is calling for questions from users. YouTube will use Google Moderator to determine which questions get asked. The ones with the most votes will be selected. "With many U.S. states facing budget crises, and the President's recent budget proposal being met with skepticism by Republicans, the financial health of the U.S. is … [Read more...]

Does Web Conferencing Hurt Business?

I just saw a short online article summarizing results of a survey sponsored by CareerBuilder.com. The article had the provocative headline “Survey: Cutting business travel cuts business.” It opened with two bullet points in bold face on a highlighted background: Less business travel adversely impacts their business, say more than a third ‘Some companies are revisiting their policies’ Wow! Sounds pretty bad. Especially when … [Read more...]

Bahrain Protest Photos Flood Flickr

Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube often get a lot of the attention when it comes to social media spreading news of revolutions and uprisings in foreign nations, but Yahoo-owned Flickr is reminding everyone that it plays a significant role as well. Photos can say a lot, and Flickr has plenty of those. The company is highlighting user-submitted photos from the protests in Bahrain. Flickr has posted a few select images from the protests on … [Read more...]

Orkut Badges for Power Users

Google has introduced badges in Orkut profiles to help you easily flaunt how active you are and how much you know of the social site. For instance, if you have been on Orkut for more than 5 years, you get the “early user” badge while if you are active on Orkut forums, you are awarded with the “Super User” badge. Some Orkut users have already been assigned badges though the full rollout will happen only in the coming week … [Read more...]

Yahoo Introduces Its Contributor Network

Yahoo has launched the Yahoo Contributor Network, a new platform for people to publish their creative content. Yahoo says its Contributor Network will bring contributions from more than 400,000 writers, photographers and videographers to media destinations, including Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and the Yahoo homepage. "The launch of the Yahoo Contributor Network is a great example of how Yahoo! is executing against its content … [Read more...]