Tag Archives: social networks
Tasty Bookmarks for your Friends
I have three computers: home, work and my laptop. While I prefer to use Safari, often I find myself in Firefox since it has broader support. And even worse, I find myself testing sites in Internet Explorer through virtual machines. And I browse sites through my iPhone. My website bookmarks were a mess and they [...]
The Long Tail of Blogging
From my post on the World Wide Web Communications blog… There are literally hundreds (well according to Technorati as of this post about 113 million) blogs out there. So How do you claw your way out of the Long Tail of blogging? From a recent Q&A… “I’ve had my blog on business and innovation for [...]
What is Open Networking?
Another interesting and somewhat heated debate from last night’s LinkedIn Live Philly event was about those people who are “open networkers.” You may see the term “LION” as part of their LinkedIn profile. Typically, open networkers have many thousands of connections. And their goal is probably to connect with everyone. Ed Callahan, one of the [...]
Add Old Email Addresses to your LinkedIn Profile
One of the interesting things about social networks is that often, you never socialize in real life. Tonight was a little bit different. There were probably over 100 people who came out to Rembrandt’s to actually see all of those people that they had connected to. A good suggestion that I learned from the event [...]
BrightKite.com Private Beta
BrightKite is a location-based social networking site that is currently in private beta. I’ve been playing with it for about a week and my initial reaction is that it is like Twitter with locations and pictures. I have a limited number of invitations to the party so please post a comment, email me or @hyermish [...]
DIGG for the DOGS
For those of you who just cannot get enough cute dog pictures, Purina has launched a targeted DIGG clone in Pet Charts. Find popular stories, photos and videos about pet related content. Woof. And if you are looking for more social networks just for pets: (post more of your favorites in the comments) Dogster Pawspot [...]
From @denthewise – Network is Power
And to follow-up from my earlier post about LinkedIn, here’s a good post by a friend from my Twitter network @denthewise: Network – not Knowledge – Is Power Dennis’ point is that with more people using social networks in both personal and business contexts, the network of connections and relationships is becoming an extremely powerful [...]
Boost Your Online Reputation with LinkedIn
LinkedIn has been around for a while now and recently they passed 20 million users. Unless you live under a rock, you probably have received at least one invitation to connect with someone on LinkedIn. That said, I frequently hear, “Okay, so I have an account and a couple of people have connected to me. [...]
Social Media in Plain English