The Pentagon announced today that it increased military access to social network sites.
SRINAGAR: Mainstream politics is showing its ugly face in Jammu and Kashmir as the ruling National Conference and the opposition People’s Democratic Party are embroiled in a fresh controversy over a caricature of ministers on the social networking website, Facebook.
Citibank is seeking to counter a “homophobic” image in the wake of having frozen the account of an Internet startup, a gay social networking site, for its “objectionable content.” The content in question, Citibank informed startup site fabulis , was “not in compliance with Citibank’s standard policies.” Fabulis fired back by posting a Feb.
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Facebook this week was awarded a patent pertaining to streaming “feed” technology — more specifically, “dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network,” complementing another patent filing that has been published but not yet approved.
How do you build a personal brand around yourself? Can one really create a business online simply by sharing her knowledge online?
Photo credit: Robin Good
A couple months ago I was invited by Nokia to join, together with Teemu Arina, a discussion and review session with their online publishing and social media teams focusing on how to improve and steer the future strategy and direction of Nokia online communication strategy.
This one-day long event that took place at Nokia’s headquarters, just outside of Helsinki, remains a pretty memorable day for me, not only because it was my very first time in Finland and because of the prestige of the invitation received, but also because, it preceded another, even more remarkable day, in which I was invited to deliver an exclusive presentation to a unique audience of technologists, media scholars, artists and intellectuals within an exclusive party setting: Dicole OZ.
My good friend Teemu organizes periodically a knowledge-party in which the appetizer dish is some special guest (this time it was me) followed by more drinks and snacks and, hard to believe for Finland, but definitely true for that night, lots of music, dancing and fun games.
As a kind of eccentric proof of the fun level we reached, there are actually no records, pics, videos or anything to review and testify the overwhelming amount of fun we had that night… we were just too busy having fun… but I am sure that for everyone who was there that night (and I hope some will testify this in the comments at the end of this article), that will remain a pretty memorable event.
But back to my short speech.
Since Teemu had given me maximum freedom in the choice of the topics I could have covered, I decided to throw in everything that interests me the most:
Online communication strategy, personal growth, being independent, learning and education, entrepreneurship, scaling yourself… and a lot more.
Thanks to Teemu’s support I have now been able to edit and split this long and varied speech in a few short bursts of inspiration and personal story telling on a few themes, and in this first article I bring you a four-video set focusing only on my personal branding ideas.
Enjoy.
Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites.
As more people reveal their whereabouts on social networks, a new site has sprung up to remind you that letting everyone know where you are - and, by extension, where you’re not - could leave you vulnerable to those with less-than-friendly intentions.
Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com . It’s almost hard to believe, but MySpace used to be the most popular social networking site in the world.
Seniors get lesson in social networking.
And then there were three Twitter search customers. Yahoo has agreed to purchase access to the Twitter firehose, adding real-time Twitter content to both search results and Yahoo profiles.
Potential dangers, copyright, and privacy issues covered by conference.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday it will buy broadband entertainment provider Vudu, a deal that gives the world’s biggest retailer the ability to sell movies directly through TVs and Blu-ray players over the Internet.
A colleague I just met at work has invited me to be their friend on Facebook. I don’t want to offend them, but nor do I want to share my candid photos and lousy Scrabble scores with someone I hardly know.
Although many web publishers consider email newsletters an old-fashioned way to update their readers and customers, in my opinion, email messages remain THE most familiar, intimate, direct and effective way to communicate with anyone you know. As such they represent one of the most powerful means to create and share value online and one of the few effective methods to start the “conversations” we keep hearing more and more about when it comes to marketing and community building.
Photo credit: mipan
But, how do you create, design and deliver an effective email newsletter?
Is it better to use plain text or take advantage of the cool formatting options available with HTML? How do you get readers to subscribe? What is the best writing style and format to use? How do you avoid having your newsletter trapped into a spam filter or your email added to a public mailing blacklist?
In this MasterNewMedia guide I am going to introduce you to the whole process of starting, designing and delivering an effective email newsletter.
Whether you want to keep up with your online community, promote your sales or increase your brand awareness, these guide will help you learn how to get started and how to avoid the most common pitfalls.
In this guide you will find everything about:
As a special bonus, I have also added at the end of this guide a selected list of free, quality newsletter templates that can be immediately downloaded and put to use to format your newsletter.
But before getting into all these details, let me share here with you first what I think are the key items you should be paying attention to, if you are serious about immediately starting an email newsletter.
If you want to dig deeper, and learn more about how to build and successfully distribute your email newsletter, here is the cream of the best tutorials, guides and resources you can find on the Internet:
Intro by Robin Good
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