Leveraging Social Media You've taken the beginning steps to creating an online social presence. You've started "tweeting" a bit on Twitter, you have a page set up on Facebook and your business profile is on LinkedIn. You've even added your colleagues and friends to some of these sites as contacts. But there is new information and Web 2.0 applications for online networking daily, it seems, and you don't know if you should spend the time...more
How Can You Use Social Media to Grow Wealth? Everyone is touting the benefits of social media these days it seems. They are suggesting to others that they move away from "traditional media". What both have in common is the ability to reach audiences, both small and large. The difference is that in order to reach these potential customers and clients through traditional practices, one must incur the cost of advertising through print, radio...more
Social Media in the Workplace - Harnessing Its Power, Avoiding the Pitfalls Depending on your perspective, social media may be either the biggest productivity drain or the greatest promotional opportunity since the Internet found its way to the workplace a decade ago.The pitfalls? Recent studies confirm that sites like Facebook and YouTube are responsible for stealing hundreds of hours from employers every year. Nucleus Research, a Boston-based IT research and consulting firm, for example, released a study this year that found companies that allow employees to access Facebook lose an average of 1.5 percent of total employee productivity during the workday.Its power? Some companies use social media as a business promotion tool and additional studies indicate that the collaboration and knowledge-sharing benefits of social media may far outweigh the risks of lost productivity. PennEnergy and the Oil & Gas Research Center explored this issue and found that more than 40 percent of engineering professionals believed they could save at least one hour per day using information-sharing technologies, and the real obstacle was company management not seeing that potential.Whatever the...more
Is Email Losing the Race to Social Media? Email has been around for close to three decades now. Though it was not available to the masses for long, ever since email became a rage with the launch of Hotmail in the mid 1990s, it is has transformed into the revolutionary new way to communicate. Written communication that used to take days was...more
Jim Rohn and Other Inspirations - 10 Tips to Genuinely Engage in Social Media - Part 1 of 2 "Hello Jim Rohn, today I want to talk to you in person.... I know you passed away some days ago, but you are immortal and well alive forever."Let me tell you the story you allowed me to start living (I will give you some useful personal branding and...more
Colorful Selection of Christmas Wreaths to Choose From Christmas is the time of the year when everyone is busy decorating their homes with colorful and beautiful ornaments. When we talk about Yuletide accessories, some of the most popular things we fill our home are Christmas wreaths. I mean, it has been a tradition for so many years even at the time of the Persian empire and it has been carried on to the modern time. Today, Christmas wreaths are available in different types including door wreaths, dried wreaths, artificial and fresh Christmas wreaths.Door WreathsDoor wreaths are perhaps the most inviting decor any home can have this coming Christmas. They can give a cheerful greeting to anyone visiting the house and all the passerby. And since we are now officially celebrating the Yuletide season, door wreaths are very much in demand because of its wonderful design and reasonable price.Dried wreathsDried wreaths capture the essence of Christmas by using mossy twigs, dried evergreen plants and fruits. They add a unique twist to the conventional holiday wreaths by preserving its materials which greatly boost the lifespan of the accessory. Some of the most commonly used...more
When it Comes to Personal Branding With Social Media, Packaging Counts With Web 2.0 dominating the Internet these days, everyone must pay attention to the way they package their personal brand online. It does not matter whether you are a high...more
The world of social media can be completely overwhelming. In addition to knowing and understanding the various networks and social media sites, you need to spend time managing your presence on each one. For most of us, managing social media is...more
5 CONTROVERSIAL DIFFERENCES SEEN AS SIMILARITIES BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM Christians never view Muslims as enemies. And let's leave the Muslims to speak for themselves. But some people are beginning to absorb some misleading issues about...more
Why Social Media Has Gone Mainstream The hype around social media just keeps getting louder. Every week a new campaign and a new platform is released. So why has social media gone mainstream?Online networks, including social ones, evolve and...more
Social Media Changed Partner Portal Strategies Social Media or the so-called Web 2.0 applications are undoubtedly changing the consumer's behavior. Channel strategies have to adapt to the dynamic environment created by the Internet's presence....more
Social Media Software Purpose:The purpose of Unilyzer Social Media Software is to provide perspective and insight about social media campaigns.Background:Unilyzer was developed in 2009 by Eman Bass, llc, a boutique business intelligence...more