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There are a lot of programs out there that monitor your financial and personal accounts for suspicious activity. Some of them work better than others, and most are based around things like your credit report in order to find out if someone has been using your identity without your knowledge. As well as some programs that let you know if there has been unusual spending in any particular branch of…

Social media is more than just a lot of fun. It has literally changed the way we communicate, giving us a new platform with its own set of etiquette, limitations and overall conduct. We can meet people we never would have known, speak to friends and family in an instant from anywhere in the world and even connect to entertainment or commercial brands we would not have known about. The…

There’s an interesting and smart thread at SEOchat forums discussing social media signals and their effect on SEO The fact is, we don’t know much about that and there are too many variables to be able to test this properly. What we know for sure: Social media mentions (i.e. links in them) are used for URL discovery. I’ve seen it millions of times. You create a new website and a…

Of all of the social media sites, I think my favorite has to be Twitter. There are many reasons for this, though the biggest is that it is made for equally for personal and professional use. The features allow you to easily optimize your social media presence, and it is the simplest method I have found for reputation management. One of the most famous features within Twitter is their “real-time”…

Last year, Israel based company Smoyz worked on behalf of Kotex to come up with an innovative form of social media marketing. They went to the latest (and fastest growing) social media site on the web – Pinterest – and sought out the most influential female pinners. Namely those who they knew would be most likely to post photos of their product. Going to 50 women, they took elements of…

There are a couple of websites that are so intensely connected to the overall image of the Internet today that they come to mind the moment you think of the web. Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube…these are all examples. Highly used, very popular and increasingly relevant to how we interact in even the real world, our lives have become totally ingrained with their services. But if you keep going, there is…

Social media is a helpful tool (some would say a crucial one), but getting a handle on its use can be tricky. We all know how to use it in a social context, but what about in a professional one? Where do you draw the line between social and inappropriate? How do you find the correct tone for your own page? How do you hook followers? All of these are…

Ah, the internet troll. A new breed of annoyance – and often hilarity – you have many different types. The opportunistic prankster who has only began to troll because the situation was too perfect not to. Many people I know have been building their whole careers in the Internet marketing by trolling… some were really good at that, others are mostly annoying… There have been endless examples of trolling, since…

Everyone is using social media these days, and that isn’t exactly a surprise. It is the number one way to increase visibility and engage with a target base. Especially as people from all over the world, of all ages, genders, income levels and other demographics are equally likely to have at least one profile. In many cases, they have a profile on all of the major social media sites, connecting…

Who uses the internet, and for what? At what point does the age barrier begin to be clearly seen, and how can we use that to out advantage? It is an issue addressed in this interesting infographic from Business Week. The main positive of knowing the statistics of such questions is being armed with information, which can be applied to any number of areas. Such as understanding the etiquette of…

As the social media user you are likely to have noticed that there are several ways to send an update to your social media stream: you can send an update, comment on your friend’s update, like your friend’s update and share your friend’s update. So what’s the difference? What happens when? The Differences To make it even more difficult, things are called a bit differently on various social media networks….