A New Game-Changing Social Network from Google WAIT, WHAT— ANOTHER SOCIAL NETWORK?!? You may be saying to yourself: “I’m barely able to deal with Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter… why should I learn another?” Google+ truly is a game-changing social network that makes sharing on the web far easier with much less noise. How is it
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Fret not… for below are Plain English Explanations that may ease your mind. Or perhaps make you even more creeped out, depending on what you think about all of it. =) The Takeaway: It’s pretty clear… Facebook users are all here mainly because their friends are here. OR they want to market their company to
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Know someone who is looking for work or maybe their business is suffering? I think we all do Times are obviously tough, but do you realize the you have the power to absolutely help others find work and/or potential customers on Facebook? If you’re efficient you can do all 3 within 60 seconds. (and seriously…
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Does your Facebook Business Page automatically redirect to Facebook’s Homepage? Or can you only see your page when you’re logged in? This question has popped up many times from clients in the past few months so I decided to write about it. If this is happening to your business page, this is obviously bad for
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About a week ago, Facebook apparently disabled the “Suggest to Friends” link on pages you don’t administer. Wondering if this is a temporary thing… Hmmm, my suspicion is that too many folks were, (pardon the phrase) “pimping” it. Once again I’m sure there were the industrious a-holes who went too far and sold names/lists of
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Not a really well known tool, but *may* be handy for some folks… If you want a copy of essentially everything your ever done, Facebook gives you the ability to download a browseable zip file. This tool lets you download a copy of your information, including your: Photos Videos Posts on your wall All of
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Say Wha?? The Message: Don’t Use Fake or Multiple Logins Why even mention this? Because it would be a shame to lose all the work you’ve put into your Facebook presence thus far. FACEBOOK IS DEFINITELY DELETING ACCOUNTS OF THOSE USERS WHO HAVE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS – (yes, I’m yelling) This is strictly forbidden within Facebook’s
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Just thought I’d send a quick post about this subject… in short don’t approve comments without reading each one thoroughly. Even though comments can give you more content and make you look popular, they can also adversely affect your search engine rankings among other things.

This is NOT an upsell nor do we have any affiliation with the following organization) Who is Code for America and What do they do? Code for America was founded to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 generation transform city governments. Cities are under greater pressure than ever, struggling with budget cuts and
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Download the Social Networking and Commerce in Plain English Presentation When: Thursday, September 9th, 2010 Where: Placer High School 120 Grass Valley Highway Auburn, CA View Larger Map Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm Cost: FREE What you will learn at this workshop: Using Social Media Correctly and Effectively to Get Paid or Make the Phone Ring!
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Every so often I write about topics to help the small business owners of the US understand this crazy biz known as the web. Why? Because they represent the backbone of our nation. (and not just economically) So I try to do my part to help. Most importantly, small biz owners, don’t be embarrassed for
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Why does Facebook insist that you sign up under a personal profile? Why is it against Facebook terms to have 2 accounts? (buiness/personal) Simply put: People are Social, Businesses are NOT. If Facebook allows anything otherwise, it will cease to be useful and will die a quick death. Keep the “social” in social networking… it’s
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Another short and sweet post about a great time saving tool for social networking. TweetDeck is a very cool app to manage your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace accounts all at once, saving time and resources… and they continue to add great features all the time! TweetDeck shows you everything in your Social Networking Space
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Since this article was first written, Facebook made a few changes… so we did too. So for Facebook pages with more than 100 connections, the short answer is… you can’t. =( The only work-around at this point is to delete the page and start over. (but build your new page first and invite your existing
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This is just a backup post to my earlier recommendation to “Clean your text” to get better search results AND keep the formatting of your pages/posts. Well the great news is that within WordPress there is a cool little button within the Visual tab named “Paste as Plain Text” It does the work for you.
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Download the Social Networking and Commerce in Plain English Presentation When: Friday, March 12, 2010 Where: Auburn Holiday Inn (Charbonneau Room) 120 Grass Valley Highway Auburn, CA *map (530) 887-8787 Time: 8:00am – 9:30am Cost: $20 Free for Auburn Chamber Members and members of the following business associations: Downtown Business Association Old Town Business Association
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Wondering what all of those # symbols are, floating around? They are called hashtags. Although they are used for different things in the geeky world of code, they are now most often used to notate (or “tag”) keywords or topics within Twitter. (i.e. if you use Twitter and put the # symbol in front of
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