Conquer Social Media Fears with New Internet Radio Show
In the world of online business marketing, social media is one of the most critical keys to success.... Read More »
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New Website Combines Social Networking with Career Search
SocialCareer.com allows users to refer their friends for open positions and rewards them with cash if the referral... Read More »
MyHeritage.com Reaches One Billion Profiles
MyHeritage.com, the popular family network on the web, announced on June 11 that it has reached the milestone... Read More »
Chicago’s Home Run Inn Takes to Klout
Social Media has always been about forming connections, whether you’re representing a company, you’re a member of the press, or you’re just a social media minded individual. Now there is a new tool for gauging and expanding your social media influence: Klout. Users can connect their various networks (including FourSquare, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, and Flickr to name a few) to come up with a number between 1-100 that evaluates their level of engagement and influence in the social media sphere. Home Run Inn Pizza is one of the companies on the site that uses it to expand their social media reach by participating in the Klout “perks” program, which allows for people to earn exclusive products and offers based on their influence. Read More »
Social Media for Small Businesses
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn all offer unique advantages, but sorting through the differences and benefits can become difficult for small businesses unfamiliar with the social networking sphere. Eric Yaverbam (Associate Publisher and Co-Founder of social media online magazines FB & Business, Tweeting & Business, LI & Business, Big G & Business) agreed to answer a few question for SocialTechPop about how to choose which network to use and why they’re important. Read More »
Social Media Monday: Your News Rundown
Big news in the social media sphere today as Microsoft accidentally let the cat out of the bag on its new "social search" service Tulalip, thanks to some top-notch reporting by Fusible, vigilante hacking group Anonymous begins work on its own social media website, and the Women's World Cup breaks a Twitter record. Read More »
Facebook Announces Video Chat with Skype
Facebook announced a new video chatting service with Skype on July 6, looking to compete with Google+'s highly-hyped Hangouts feature. Read More »
The Deals on the Bus Go Round and Round
Newsflash people: daily deal sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, and Tippr are here to stay. Think of them as the first wave of the second generation of the social media tsunami. Fortunately for daily deal sites, many internet shoppers buy on impulse, not giving a second thought to picking up half price yoga lessons from Henry the Sherpa. Read More »
First Growth Venture Network Is Nurturing Baby Entrepreneurs
First Growth Venture Network, a program based in New York City for high potential, seed and early stage start-up tech entrepreneurs, is pleased to announce that the application process for its third vintage is now open. Read More »
10 Ways Technology Would Change Fairy Tales
Everyone likes to look at technology in terms of how it will change the future. But I want to go one step further and ask, "how would it change the past?" Even more, how would some of our favorite fairy tales be different had they been written during the golden age of technology? Would Sleeping Beauty really lay in wait? or would the prince simply have seen that her status had gone to 'sleep'? I do wonder.... Read More »
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