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I’d find it hard to believe that anyone hasn’t heard about Facebook’s new bag of tricks popping up all throughout the internet like a wildfire through the California hills. That said, here is why you should care about Facebook’s new “Like” button. The Like button is a great feature to offer your website visitors as it allows everyone who visits your site a one click opportunity to promote your site to their ...

So Google has finally decided to merge their mail service with user profile pages in a way that allows content to be fed in and named this Google Buzz. I’ve probably over simplified it, but essentially you now have the option on your Google Profile of sharing information from your other websites with people you frequently email. This allows your Google Profile to work much like FriendFeed in that you can ...

SM for Business Whether you’ve mastered your social media outlets and are conversing with thousands or not interested in checking out Facebook and Twitter just yet, you’ll want to take a look at these three sites. More importantly, you’ll want to make sure your customers are looking at these sites: Yelp.com Yelp is currently the most popular online review site, from restaurants, to convention center facilities and everything else. If a business or facility ...

From LinkedIn this evening...A user asked is 2010 the tipping point for social media?? Here's my take. I think with so many social networking sites available, we'll start to see a lot more web applications that allow users to "consolidate" their online worlds. Examples would be FriendFeed or Fluid App. That said, many new sites still continue to pop up on my radar, each offering something unique such as FourSquare.com which has ...

In the past I’ve talked often about Twitter and its usefulness as both a marketing resource as well as sales tool for online businesses. While I still feel that Twitter is suitable for both of these, I want to make it a point to say, like many online tools, it has its flaws, a serious one at that, and should not be the only form of social media involvement you ...

You may have no idea what heading means, and that’s probably ok if you’re in the Real Estate industry. If you’re in to SEO/SEM or are looking for an easy way to increase traffic to your website a quick Google search will lead you to all three of these sites: Stumbleupon, Delicious and Digg – but are they worthwhile for the Real Estate Community? These three sites are considered, Social Bookmarking ...

If you’re in commercial real estate this is something you have probably started to ask yourself. Do you immerse yourself and join every possible site out there, automate all your postings with Ping.FM and run the chance of not having the time to manage responses to all these sites or do you select a couple key places to better manage your ability to interact with potential clients on a more ...

With so many applications available to automate Twitter, does it run the risk of losing its social edge? Let’s look at a brief run down of what one could do with a Twitter account and an Affiliate Program that is capable of providing RSS feeds. Once your Twitter account is created, you swing by TwitterFeed.com and plug in your RSS feeds to automatically post each hour (or however often you want ...

Can real estate be sold on Twitter? Whether you’ve been a fan of Twitter for some time now or if you just happened to start using it recently because you read it’s a great social media tool that is becoming popular, you probably have asked yourself at some point – is it possible to make money with Twitter? A quick Google search of this topic will lead you to find many ...