While we hear a lot about Facebook and Twitter for lead generation, LinkedIn can be just as good, if not better, if you spend a little bit of time optimizing your profile. 
The Social Media Examiner has distilled five ways businesses have hit the ground running on Facebook Timeline. You can use these examples to help make your Facebook Timeline richer for storytelling and more actionable for sales. 
Facebook just released new posting functionality for offers that will help businesses post deals to their Timeline for fans to redeem. Currently the functionality being released is to a limited number of Facebook Business Pages, but will eventually... 
I selected this piece by Michael Poh for Hongkiat.com
I found some of his suggestions helpful, things I know I should do but now I'm going to take his advice. I hope there's something here for you too!
Excerpt:
"In a time when the world is connected to the Internet 24/7, it’s hard to imagine how we can survive a day without it".
Here's what caught my attention:
Unsubscribe From Email Lists
**We get subscribed to various email lists whenever we purchase or register products and services. That’s how they can market us their latest products or simply update us with what they’re up to
**If your inbox is often flooded with spam, you’ll be surprised at how good it feels when you only get emails that you want to read.
Clear your inbox
**It’s a kind of discipline that you should impose on yourself as you try to keep your Inbox clear.
**It means that once you receive an email that requires your action, you have to act – reply, forwards, follow up, double check, confirm etc – and be done with it ASAP - Yes!!
Have time-0uts or Days Off
**Everyone needs a breather, and enjoy quality time away from such tension. Take an hour or so of quality offline time each day, or a day during the weekends.
**Just switch off from the Net. You’ll realize that you feel much more energetic and alive when you’re moving around and talking to people.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/JLuu10] Via janlgordon 
All major social networks provide merchants with the capability to incorporate social sharing buttons that allow visitors to share content. 
Facebook has been giving developers plenty of warning about their plans to remove support for FBML. 
One of the most important habits everybody using Twitter needs to adopt as early as possible is the habit of consistency. 
Have you ever met someone and thought, déjà vu—I’ve met you before? That’s not just your lunch talking. 
Maybe it was inspired by the other app's most recent update, or perhaps by Zuck's newly-minted commitment to mobile applications. Regardless, Facebo. 
When it comes to social media, one group of users who are often courted by brands and businesses are mothers, given how much of the household purchasing power they actually control. 
What do you use as your daily Social Media dashboard every day?
Yet, in recent months, there were a great number of browser extensions released, specifically for Twitter.com. They help you create a much greater experience right inside Twitter.com.
What I like best about this is that you are in charge regarding how many bells and whistles you are adding. You can basically fully customize your own Social Media dashboard.
So here are my top 5 finds you can use to make Twitter.com a truly powerful Social Media tool for you:...
Read more: http://bit.ly/IjmxO3 Via Martin Gysler 
Is Tumblr right for your online business? Here's a list of pros and cons of the social media tool to help you make up your mind. 
For larger organisations, understanding the importance of Social Media for engaging with their customer has a simple response - employ a dedicated Social Media Officer! |
Have you ever seen racist tweets and thought to yourself, “Man, I wish someone would call them out for that!” Your prayers have been answered. 
After its successful IPO on Friday, Facebook was looking forward to its second day of trading, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg won't be too pleased to learn that his company took a big tumble on the stock exchange on Monday. 
LinkedIn networking: Learn key engagement strategies and activities to build and grow your LinkedIn network. 
As you work on LinkedIn recommendations there are a few things to consider. Here are some guidelines about what to do and what not to do. 
SoLoMo Marketing: how businesses are using social, local, and mobile marketing to drive more customers to their business. 
Twitter used to be one of my favorite web destinations but in recent months I’ve nearly walked away from it thanks to the overwhelming overflow of information. 
The Welsh town of Monmouth has been preparing for months to become a sort of living geographical encyclopedia. The concept combines free Wi-Fi with 'QRpedia' codes everywhere linked to multilingual articles in 'Monmouthpedia'. 
Microsoft Bing is revamping its search engine to include a sidebar to enable you to obtain recommendations from users of Facebook when making a search on Bing. It is not just Facebook but they are planning to include many other networks. 
It’s been less than a year since Twitter opened their London offices, but new data from the micro-blogging company has revealed how popular the network has become in the United Kingdom. 
Does your company have a FaceBook page, Twitter account, Google+, YouTube or even Pinterest boards but no one is hearing your message? 
Even if this list is from 2011, you'll find a lot of interesting tools for today. [note mg]
If you want to know what’s happening in the social web you need monitoring tools. Before you get out your credit card and start to spend money try out some of the free social media monitoring services. This way you get a taste of what is available and if you need paid services.
I have collected 48 free social media monitoring tools. In the Group A are the services that I use regularly or seem interesting to check out immediately. The Group B is an alphabetical list of tools for you to play with. Here we go:...
Read more: http://bit.ly/IDzrqr Via Martin Gysler 
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