Facebook's Latest Design Update Helps Businesses

Facebook continues to evolve as it strives to master its own business model. With the latest evolution, Facebook makes its service more valuable to businesses. With the updated Fan Page, businesses now have the ability to send updates straight to the news feed of any person who has chosen to be a fan of that business.This will help companies make their online marketing strategies more viral.

Additionally, Facebook is adding an analytics tool called Insight so you can better understand the demographic of your fans. If your business currently does not have a Facebook fan page, now is the time to jump on the opportunity for maximum early exposure.

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Twitter . It's not about you.

Philadelphia, PA, ---The African American United Fund, a 501(c)3 welcomes all to attend the non-exclusive Revive Your Business...Be Social! workshop, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the African American United Fund Conference Room, 2227 N Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19132, RSVP: http://social-networking-phila.eventbrite.com/ Free will donations to The Fund may be made online, mailed to the African American United Fund, 2227 N Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19132 or presented at the workshop. This workshop will provide easy step-by-step instructions and give real-life scenarios especially for skilled laborers who are interesting in reaching customers online. If you can read, write and click, you should attend this workshop.

Twitter's online traffic, excluding cellphones, surged to nearly 9.8 million unique visitors in February from 6.1 million in January 2009. 1

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Getting PR for a Small Business - Tweet Chat Summary

As some of you know, I have been participating in organized events over at Twitter.com called tweetchats (read my backgrounder on Tweetchats).

Last week I was the featured speaker in the @Sbbuzz tweetchat, about getting press coverage for a small business on a tight budget. The summary for “How to Get Good Press” is now posted, in case you missed it.

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Can Twitter Really Help Your Small Business?

You've probably heard of Twitter, even if you aren't sure what it is. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service--think public instant messenger stream. From your mobile device or computer you send updates called tweets, which are text posts of up to 140 characters. Your tweets can be read by others, and you can sign up to follow the messages others write so that you can get short, quick updates from them.

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MySpacing your business

So the beta version of MySpace Local, a directory of local businesses, may be helpful for entrepreneurs who want to tap into the wealth of social networking opportunities online. It utilizes the CitySearch database of businesses, with three categories right now: restaurants, bars, and nightlife.

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Are you LinkedIn? How to make LinkedIn work for your business.

LinkedIn is equivalent to the Facebook of professionals. It is a business oriented social network that was launched in May 2003. As of this month there is more then 35 million registered users across 170 industries. The site allows you to maintain a list of contact details that you know and trust in business. Creating a connection is similar to friending someone on Facebook.

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Protect your online information - Social Networking

With more and more social networking sites springing up, becoming popular, focusing on specific niche audiences or interests or sites simply fading away. You leave personal information on many of these sites, that’s ok…….. right?

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Social Networking Helps Small Businesses Turn A Profit

Call me a twit, but at a recent staff meeting, I mentioned I had signed up for Tweeter, and what I really meant to say was that I had signed up with Twitter. If you have no understanding about what I just wrote, read on, because, for entrepreneurs, the social networking scene is rapidly becoming the best place for personal branding, web marketing and business promotion. It is one key to success for your small business.

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Twitter Tools

Twitter not only helps you connect with millions of people it is a phenomenal research tool. Businesses and organizations collectively pay millions of dollars for case studies, reports, white papers, think tanks, and focus groups in the hopes of obtain business building information on their industry and target market.

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Social Networking - As a Business Tool?

Welcome to the inaugural post of the new Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives blog. As an organization that connects experienced women with unique points of view, what better way of creating a forum for dialogue than through the vehicle of social media.

Our organization is all about connecting experienced women leaders to peers, mentors and resources to deliver a deeper understanding of business in the context of a larger perspective. So, why are we not using technology as a means of supporting this powerful network?

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Can Facebook Replace A Traditional Web Site?

He argues that you don't need a web site because With Facebook Fan pages you can build your own website on the Facebook "Platform". A website that is totally FREE of hosting and server costs, public and indexable on all search engines, with unique URL's for individual landing pages that you can tune based on if they are Fans or Non Fans, where you can host all your video (so long as it is under 10mb) and upload your product catalog with detailed descriptions (and get feedback from Fans), where you can throw an event or show presentations on a Slideshare ap, run a contest or a survey, host your blog or retweet your status updates (or better yet - just use Facebook instead of Twitter). Oh don't forget send emails to your Fans for FREE and if you want to buy targeted ads you can do that too.

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Should your business be on Facebook?

Ask FSB's experts help small business owners cut through the social-networking thicket.

By Kathleen Ryan O'Connor

(FORTUNE Small Business) -- Dear FSB: Is it wise for a small business to have a corporate homepage on Facebook? One of our employees mentioned it. Some say it's good marketing; others say it's not. What are the pros and cons of doing it?

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10 Reasons To Use Facebook for Business

Social networking sites, especially Facebook, have significant implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs around the world. To keep your business current, you should at least be familiar with the latest social media marketing techniques and viral technologies, including Facebook and its array of powerful features.

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The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World

By SALVATORE PARISE , PATRICIA J. GUINAN and BRUCE D. WEINBERG

For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage consumers. If only they knew how to do it.

That's where this article aims to help. We interviewed more than 30 executives and managers in both large and small organizations that are at the forefront of experimenting with Web 2.0 tools. From those conversations and further research, we identified a set of emerging principles for marketing.

But first, a more basic question: What is Web 2.0, anyway? Essentially, it encompasses the set of tools that allow people to build social and business connections, share information and collaborate on projects online. That includes blogs, wikis, social-networking sites and other online communities, and virtual worlds.

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Building an Online Community Of Loyal and Vocal Users

By RAYMUND FLANDEZ

Etsy Inc., an online marketplace for handmade goods, offers a host of ways for its customers to connect with the company and each other.

These include user profiles, forums, blogs and a rating-and-feedback system for the site's 800,000 registered users, including crafters and artisans who sell their wares on the site.

But Etsy also has embraced ways that its customers interact with one another outside of the company's domain -- mainly a handful of social-networking sites created by Etsy.com fans.

Among them is We Love Etsy, a site created by Lis Kidder, a 28-year-old lawyer and glass-jewelry designer in Fairfax, Va. We Love Etsy has 2,780 members who build their own profile pages, interact with each other and post reviews of handicrafts among other things.

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Are You Tweeting? If Not, Maybe You Should Be!

The idea of social networking has really taken flight, and these days the use of certain sites to promote small businesses have become quite popular.

Twitter is one of these sites. If you haven't heard of it and you own a small company or provide a service to others, you might want to take a look.

On twitter you set up an account using your profile, a photograph, your business or personal site, and some information about yourself. You then search for followers - people with whom you feel you may have a connection and who might be interested in reading what you write and share with your followers.

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