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  • 10 ways to get more out of LinkedIn

    By Kristin Burnham | 31 January, 2011 15:23

    With more than 80 million users worldwide, LinkedIn has established itself as the premier social networking site for professionals. If you're job searching, looking to broaden your network or hunting for new partnerships, these 10 tips and tricks will propel you toward success.

  • How Quora could help your business

    By Katherine Noyes | 21 January, 2011 12:00

    Question-and-answer sites like Yahoo Answers may offer a quick way to ask questions and get answers, but they tend to be plagued by wisecracks, poor spelling, and generally low quality. On the other hand, a new site targeting this niche, Quora, is going to great lengths to keep quality high.

  • How to clean up your online reputation

    By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 11 January, 2011 13:02

    If you own a small or medium business, a good reputation--online and offline--is clearly key to your success.

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  • The social business network

    By Darren Horrigan | 29 February, 2012 11:23

    You’ve gotta feel for the CIO who has to write a business case to convince his or her board to spend money on new technologies with names like Yammer, Mr Tweet, Pluck, Chatter or Jive. After all, whimsy is only so cool to the chequesigners in multi-billion dollar corporations who quickly follow their tacit approval of anything leading edge with that old-school refrain of “show me the money”. Look past the funky names of today’s social networking tools, however, and chances are there will be enough nifty features to justify the investment.

  • How to prepare your business for Google+

    By Angela West | 24 September, 2011 23:59

    Google+ just opened its doors to the world by enabling open signups and moving to the beta, testing phase. The nascent social network is still thin on features and ways for businesses to properly use it, but its minimalist approach has gained Google+ millions of users in a very short period.

  • Curtains for MySpace?

    By Ian Paul | 13 January, 2011 01:28

    Things just keep getting worse for MySpace. The former social networking hub recently announced it would cut nearly half of its global workforce as part of a restructuring effort.   As many as five hundred MySpace employees worldwide will soon be looking for work as the site continues to redefine itself from a social network to an entertainment content site with social networking features.

  • Who’s using Twitter? Some surprising answers

    By Katherine Noyes | 11 December, 2010 06:20

    Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small business should use the service in its marketing and communications efforts?

  • Could Wikileaks scandal lead to new virtual currency?

    By Keir Thomas | 11 December, 2010 11:35

    It's not an exaggeration to say that the recent Wikileaks scandal has shaken the Internet to its core. Regardless of where you stand on the debate, various services have simply refused to handle Wikileaks' business -- everything from domain-name providers to payment services -- and this has led to many questioning how robust the Internet actually is.

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