A little while back, we spoke about how businesses are turning to new technologies to promote their businesses and personal branding through electronic business cards and the like. There are already dozens of job seeker websites where companies can advertise and applicants can easily respond to job ads onlines. Job seekers can upload their resumes [...]
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Posted in Around the Web on Jan 23rd, 2012
iMark Business Card. Image Credit: Joanne Dang. Mashable and American Express OPEN Forum have been debating the merits of traditional business cards. After all, in today’s day and age, after receiving such a card, it is still a necessity to transfer the names, phone numbers and email addresses into one’s phone or contact database. Business [...]
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Posted in Social Media on Jan 20th, 2012
Social media is so prevalent these days that it would be strange not to incorporate it into everyday life. For more social media funnies, check out Geek and Poke Cartoons.
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This map depicts the physical movement of and movements of tweets. Created by Social Media cartographer Eric Fischer, this tracks the physical movement (in green) and @ replies from someone in one location to someone in another (in purple) and a combination of the two (in white). Fischer has also created maps on the use [...]
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Posted in Social Media on Dec 1st, 2011
When you need to rename your Twitter account for whatever reason, it can be done without losing your loyal followers. You may need to make the switch due to a business name change, rebranding, merger, or for personal reasons, and in the past, the fact that was nearly impossible to change any social media username. [...]
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Customers are increasing going online to find the best deals. According to the National Retail Federation, last year a total of $45 billion dollars were spent on the United State’s biggest shopping day of the year. Social media is not playing a bigger role that ever before with the marketing of this year’s Black Friday, [...]
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The creator of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, tells the tale of a whale’s rise to Web stardom. Well, not really. He talks about the rise of social media in the story of Mister Splashy pants. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conferences, where leading thinkers from around [...]
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To see more social media funnies, visit Mildly Hot Peppers.
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Posted in Social Media on Nov 3rd, 2011
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Social media can do a lot for small businesses. It is a cost-effective way to reach a wider audience and present new ways of interacting with clients, suppliers and investors. While it takes initial investments to begin social media campaigns, one of the biggest issues that companies have is to sustain or increase momentum. Here [...]
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