Archives for April, 2010
How Many LinkedIn Connections Should You Have? My Advice May Surprise You! [VIDEO]
April 29th, 2010Image by annapmagistra via Flickr LinkedIn is a very interesting social networking site. Many users say they only want to connect with people in their closed network, but unless that network is big enough, the benefits of using LinkedIn to find and be found become minimal. On the other hand, I find many users who [...]
6 Great Reasons to Become a Business Exchange User
April 22nd, 2010Have you heard of Business Exchange? It is an information-centric social networking site that is run by Bloomberg and sits on the same URL together with Business Week magazine. As you can already guess, it is a site that is extremely focused on business and the news. After reading a great blog post on Business [...]
LinkedIn Network Statistics. Do You Believe Them?
April 19th, 2010How often do you look at your LinkedIn Network Statistics? You can access them directly from navigating over to “Contacts” and then selecting Network Statistics. Everybody loves to look at these statistics as this is where you start to see the power of your network. If you were curious as to what the numbers of [...]
Understanding Those Mysterious Facebook Spam Messages You May Be Receiving
April 14th, 2010Image via Wikipedia If you are one of the 400+ million people on Facebook, you have probably already figured out a way to deal with filtering out the many potential notifications that you could be receiving. Going to the “Account Settings” page under your personal profile leads you to a complex screen like the one [...]
Manners in the Digital Age : Use Old-School Etiquette to Rise Above the Social Media Mainstream
April 13th, 2010Today’s blog post is written by my guest Jennifer V. Miller. Jennifer is the founder and Managing Partner of SkillSource. She advises executives on how to improve workplace productivity via positive workplace dynamics. Jennifer blogs at The People Equation and considers her old-school professionalism a key to her personal brand. Follow her on Twitter: @JenniferVMiller . Where did [...]
10 Things You Must Do for LinkedIn Profile Completeness
April 9th, 2010If you looked at 10 different LinkedIn profiles, you might see 10 different ways in which people have entered their details. For a social networking platform that is trying to standardize the way people depict themselves with their “xxx% profile completeness” status that appears when you edit your profile, the results have been surprisingly across [...]
Twitter in Japan Update 2010 – Statistics, Video and Duck Mouth?
April 7th, 2010I just came back from a visit to Japan, where i was impressed with the growth of Twitter in the mainstream of Japanese society. No, not everyone is using the realtime social networking platform, but considering that Japan is a society that both does its social networking primarily on the cellphone and are avid readers [...]
Social Media Book Review : The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web by Tamar Weinberg
April 6th, 2010Following up on my “Top 15 Social Media Books of 2009” blog post as well as my recent review of “A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization by Deltina Hay,” I want to cover another book which I thought was one of the best social media-related books of 2009: “The New Community [...]
LinkedIn CRM: Using the New LinkedIn Tags to Better Browse Your LinkedIn Connections
April 1st, 2010LinkedIn is slowly evolving their functionality to become more like a true Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software package. While it will be hard for LinkedIn to compete with SalesForce.com, the recent addition of the Profile Organizer as well as the more recent My Connections (also called Connections Beta) have made it significantly easier for businesses [...]
Neal Schaffer is recognized as a leader in helping businesses and professionals embrace and strategically leverage the potential of social media. An award-winning published author, frequent speaker at social media events, and an avid blogger, Neal is President of 
