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If you want to make the most of social media marketing today, you better sign up with Facebook. According to a recent report from the Orlando Business Journal, Facebook has far outpaced its competitors in the first quarter of 2009, garnering 78 percent of US social network participants against MySpace’s 42 percent, LinkedIn’s 17 percent and Twitter’s 10 percent.
Worldwide, Facebook was reported to have 307.1 million unique visitors in May 2009 while MySpace had less than half with a mere 123.2 million unique visitors. According to Facebook, its members are sending each other one billion chat messages each day.
As early as 2008, a study done by Internet Retailer and Vovici showed that most online retailers in the US chose to use Facebook as a social media network to help boost sales. A separate study done by Rosetta among the top 100 US online retailers showed that 59% had set up a Facebook fan page. Among these retailers were Best Buy, Kohl’s, Wal-Mart and Toys “R” Us.
In order to make the most of your company’s Facebook fan page, though, you should familiarize yourself thoroughly with social media marketing as a whole, and with the way Facebook itself works in particular. It would be wholly counterproductive to make an online faux pas and earn ill will. Each social media network has its own temperament, after all, and its own set of rules and online etiquette. Members and users also have certain expectations from other members and users.
Perhaps it would be best for a company not to risk experimentation by assigning this task to a newbie. Learn from the mistake of the New York Times whose new social media editor had no extensive knowledge of Twitter before diving in. As a result, her repost meant to point other Tweeter users to an online article ended up taking them to Ebay instead. Do not make the same mistake in Facebook or you will get a lot of negative comments instead of the favorable ones you need. It would be best to leave the task of handling your company’s social media marketing efforts to the experts.
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Currently, Google is capturing almost every facet of internet marketing.Google has made entry in the field of social networking and is also creating a bench mark all over the internet.Soon, google social networking will be the standard for social networking, as Google has become the standard for many things, including searching through search engines, paid advertising, e-mail, calendar and even web applications and web documents.Social networking through online is becoming more popular all over the world.Through social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace you can get it touch with various people, build your contacts and gain potential customers. And now there are programs that get released like the Google Secret Loophole.
These social networking sites are not only utilized by the thousands of people but also now businesses have started using them too.Leveraging a social networking site to its fullest potential is a great way for a business to reach out to new target markets and garner larger customer bases.When you think nothing can be more beneficial then such kind of services, Google came up with new project and new idea for social networking.Google has shown up at the party with a social networking site of its very own, one that is known as Orkut.The name of the site that is Orkut may sound to be odd but it has given tough competition to the other social networking sites on internet today.In USA and Asia Orkut has already created bench mark and is now also capturing the market of United States.Google social networking is aiming to dominate social networking market by trying to do wonders in the field of social networking.
Google social networking actually wants to enjoy the space that Facebook and MySpace are enjoying from a very long time.Popularity of Orkut has increased thrice over last one year in China and Japan and counts over 11 million visitors in a single month.But whether Google‘s Orkut will enjoy the same position as other big social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace in the United States, will be known as the time unfolds.In online world Google is proving its presence in every field including social networking.If Google can figure out how to offer more than what the other social networking sites are offering, then they can certainly get in on the action that these other social networking sites are already capitalizing on.
If you are not already using Orkut by Google, log into your Google account today and check it out.Having a Gmail account can help you to complete the registration process quickly and then you can prepare your own profile for Google social networking.
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Is Obama making things safer? Did you see the recent post on CNN.com where Cheney is saying that Obama’s policies are actually making American’s less safe and more likely to invite terrorist attacks? The post is here: Cheney Interview
I do find it interesting that within less than 6 months in office, Obama will have actually created more of a deficit that the entire term of the Bush administration… Think about it, the deficit is said to be about 1 Trillion plus dollars when the Bush administration left. While the stimulus packages are going to amount to well over 1 Trillion dollars… and those Stimulus packages really weren’t about any kind of stimulation to the economy. It has just left the US in a worse jam than we were already in…
The bubble was sure to pop sometime, so why not let the markets take their course and let the irresponsible parties suffer… it might be hard for a while, but not nearly as bad as it will be…
As to the other parts of the article dealing with security.. it’s all a facade anyway… we’re aren’t any safer because of any policies… how stupid do they think we are? Do you honestly believe any of the things we have done have really made us any safer. Now I don’t think are response to the attacks was as harsh as it should have been… We did prosecute a war on Iraq, that while needed, because Saddam was an evil man, that needed to be stopped… it was surely done improperly and not like the Generals that knew what should be done, advised doing.
With Guatanamo Bay… well, the CIA should be following the rules set by the Army interrogation manual… We have a moral obligation to do it and as I myself have been through some advanced resistance training, I can tell you that information received through torture is usually unreliable and there are far better ways to get information. When I was in training, I used to wish the interrogator would beat me or do something stupid like that. Not that I like pain nor do I want to die, but it is far easier to deal with physical pain, than it is with mental or emotional pain or with someone that is too nice and acts like they want to be your friend.
I have a business partner that was very good at his job in the Army, which was an interrogator… he knows what works and what doesn’t. He even says, that there are things you do that are pretty extreme, but you can get into a suspects head without some of the severe treatments we have heard about. The whole situation was blown out of proportion though… it should have never cause or been part of the media frenzy that it was.
But truth be told, I don’t trust the CIA and they often do way more than is necessary to do a job, that most of the time, they aren’t very good at… That is an agency that I don’t have much respect for…
As to the Eavesdropping… well, that has been going on for a long time… but to think that we are stomping on our own Constitution in the name of security, that sickens me. It also angers me… the Patriot Act I and II were both a bunch of BS… they are not good for America. Yes, our legal system needs some work… but our Constitution is the most important governing document we have and it shouldn’t be stomped on every time we turn around.
Is terrorism really a military deal? Yes it is more military than it is a law enforcement and it should be treated as such. But when are we going to take care of our own problems at home? When are we going to not give so many people a reason to hate us…? The oath of every person that enters the military is to protect this country against enemies both foreign and domestic… We need to clean up or own streets. We should be declaring war on gangs and organized crime… This should be a priority. A strong America is a safe America… lets show the rest of the world that our system works and that our Constitution means something to us. Let’s provide hope…
Then and only then can we help anyone else… and not be hypocrites. Then when those who harbor terrorists and those that actually do attack this country and our people, we make the response swift and unproportional… By unproportional I mean, we use the full and unrestricted force of our military to reign down on those that attack us, we obliterate them with no mercy. We make it so that no other country will ever want to harbor a single terrorist ever again. We make it so that it is unsafe for anyone to terrorize us or anyone else… so they won’t attack us, out of that fear and no one else will protect them if they do.
If we are a moral country with ethics and we respect our own Constitution, then others will respect us and want to join us… because they will want that too…
I probably could go on and on, but I’ll save it for another post or perhaps another blog…