Fellow blogger Israel from Fat Man Unleashed had the idea to launch a new social media site, especially focused on the Health niche. Israel realised there was no health related social media site available yet, so he said to himself, why not build one myself? The result after many hours of work: HealthRanker.com.
Is waterboarding a violation of the United Methodist Social Principles (http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?mid=1686)? The Social Community (http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?mid=1713) defines how we are to live within the family of people. The Basic Freedoms and Human Rights (http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?mid=1824) section under the Political Community (http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?mid=1823) includes the language "Furthermore, the mistreatment or torture of persons by governments for any purpose violates Christian teaching and must be condemned and/or opposed by Christians and churches wherever and whenever it occurs."So long as waterboarding = torture, see (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding), then it would be against the Social Principles in all cases, irrespective of the justification (The ends do not justify the means), consistent with the Social Principles language extracted above.If so, how should we respond to the fact of our country using that on a s
a social networking community that creates connections and relationships between business professionals from all over the world. To help facilitate your objectives you can find tools and services to assist you in becoming more effective.Select the best service to market your product. Aries Register can tailor a range of services and e-marketing solutions to suit your business needs now and into the future. Aries Sites various methods of market research are used to find out information about markets, target markets and their needs, competitors, market trends, customer satisfaction with products and services, etc. Examples of these tools are: video conferencing, webmeeting rooms, customized marketing pages, calendars, contact management systems, e-commerce store fronts and much more.
Last week Google introduced the Google Social Graph API, a new application programming interface to allow wed developers to make better use of relationship data for social networking sites.Check out this video introduction to Social Graph APIThe new API will have a number of practical applications, with one possibility being the integration of a button to allow users to easily add friends.Thomas Claburn at Information Week writes:"If Google's vision proves appealing and social data loses its linkage to a specific social site, Facebook and MySpace may find their ability to retain users substantially diminished. Without the added value of social graph exclusivity, Facebook and MySpace become merely providers of Web hosting for the HTML averse. It's doubtful Facebook could sustain a valuation of $15 billion were it pitched as 'Geocities, but with widgets.' "With the ever expanding social networking scene, it becomes more and more difficult to decide which websites to join, and where your
A big part of this Friday was spent writing, and conducting the report for Social Stats class, which a presentation along with the report is due Saturday morning. Well, it’s now almost midnight, and the Siamerican has completed everything. The report itself turned out to be 20 pages, which was mostly bar graphs and table [...]
While being hired on at StepForth Web Marketing our CEO, Ross Dunn, was interested in how someone with a background in sociology could benefit his company, specifically in understanding social media and how to market to it. Sociologists look at communities and try to dissect them as to what its participants have in common in addition to trends or commonalities within the communities.Sociologists study society and social action by examining the groups and social institutions people form, as well as various social, religious, political, and business organizations. In essence it is the study of social interactions of people and groups.They like to watch groups of people and see how they interact and function. Understanding the group’s values and ideas is the key because once you understand a group one can participate within it. Participation means that you have the ability to communicate to those within the groups and spread or gain information. The concept of a social media marketer is
By Esteban Panzera on the 05-02-2008
If you are looking to become a pro social media marketer or you are already one wanting to know more about it, I have compiled a list of 23 blogs that talk about social media marketing and are great places to learn. Of course mine is a must read [...]
Now a days many social networking site like orkut myspace ,facebook etc face many problems especially through script running in sraps and message infecting profiles etc But scrappur has solution for that and if any social networking sites is interested in solving this solution i will delevired this solution to that sites with some condition.Interested sites can contact me in My Mail id scrapur@gmail.com
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Online success depends on something very important - it requires a multi-tactic approach. I like to consider online strategies as a solution made up of three important Web marketing pillars that each work together to achieve strategic objectives, namely a corporate or brand website, ROI-driven Web marketing and influence-focused Social Media.
Before I explain, let’s [...]
Another social bookmarking site ??? RockYourVote.net has been launched by Chris Wong and Wayne Liew. Well nothing much differences with Digg and Propeller but you may find many issues, Internet, food and other social news from Malaysia. Unlike other sites always provide western culture news.
RockYourVote should be the second social bookmarking site in Malaysia after [...]
The way South African businesses use social media has to (and will) change. So much so that its impact on business will be the determining factor on whether social media really is a business tool or a “nice to have”. Here’s why.
To this date, while we understand what social media is and how it can [...]
Google has helped solved a problem that infects new social networks and applications–how to grow them, and fast.
Google on Friday released the Google Social Graph API, which will allows developers to write apps that can easily link up people on the Web. The API takes the publicly declared relationships about your accounts, on Twitter, MySpace.com, [...]
Google launched a new application programming interface (API) to help developers make use of social networking relationship data.
The Google Social Graph API provides developers with a way to...
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Regardless of the sorry state of the economy, expenditures in the U.S. are expected to rise to a figure of $1.6 million in 2008, from a 2007 figure of $920 million. Based on an evaluation of the money expected to be spent on advertising, Web Pro News figured that MySpace and Facebook together garnered more than 70 percent of all the social network ad spending. Such is the hold that social networks have over the online community that almost all of the major search engines have jumped in the social networking bandwagon. Google acquired YouTube and now has plans on collaborating with MySpace. Yahoo! joined in with del.icio.us as a factor for social networking, and there are lots more that are expected to follow. Major business organizations realized the value of such networks and wasted no time in creating a space for business-social mingling on such sites. They make for a very vibrant platform as well, as in a way social networking communities have brought about an evolution of th
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.comThe social web is creating a reversal in the process of managing customers. People learn from people and subsequently are avoiding influence from institutions rather the conversations of people, one to one to millions, have become the power of influence.These conversations are creating “social markers” on brands. [...]
Massachusettsrealestate.gooruze.comGooruze is a social network site for on-line marketers. I find the site interesting because there is an abundance of articles related to SEO and social media marketing and networking.As a Realtor, I am interested in these topics. Anything that I can take away from an article to improve my on-line visibility and business skills is time well spent.The Gooruze team describes the service as dedicated, ranked, quality, information. The content is created by members who share real experiences and insights in the form of articles and news. The posts are tagged, rated, and commented on by the community to deliver quality articles and information. The concept is a lot like Active Rain only the focus is not on Real Estate but on the web 2.0 and internet marketing.Reasons why you may like the site:1.) Around 700 ranked news posts and articles.2.) A chance to get opinions and advice from industry leaders.3.) Connect with over 1000 other on-line marketer
dNeero offers you the opportunity to earn money for taking surveys. You can make more money by sharing your survey results on your blog or other places such as, myspace, live journal, friendster, yahoo 360, xanga, zimbio or other places by simple embedding a code on your page.Your survey opportunities will depend on your blogger profile when you register for your free account. Once you have accumulated $20.00 in your account, you can request payment. Current payout method is Paypal. You can also earn money by referring others to dNeero up to 5 levels.
Everyone uses facebook, myspace, digg, technorati and other social bookmarking and networking sites. We all run into problems setting up our profiles, or making changes to them. More often than not, support for these sites is completely inadequate. Social Sites Support is here to help!read more | digg storyComputer and technology tips, reviews and how-to's in a non technical language.
Savvy tech talk for the non-tech-savvy.
So, you've been staying up until 3:00am to touch base with all of your social networking contacts in your chosen networks. Feeling like you have a million login names and passwords to remember for each of your networks.You are so exhausted that your writing is severely suffering and your blogging isn't consistent.Feeling burnt out, you wonder what your options are. Which networks do you sacrifice?The answer?...None!Currently, the most efficient option for consolidating your networking is to choose one of a relatively new breed of applications called social network aggregators. These attempt to consolidate (with varying success) your variety of social networking profiles into one.Welcome to the biggest competitors in this field.8Hands "With 8hands, you can organize and optimize your different online profiles from one place, while receiving real time notifications of your events...IM and share online content with your friends: Just drag and drop your YouTube videos, Flickr pics and more
The Guardian and the London Telegraph reported earlier this month on a personality study of social network users (1000 people, aged 18-24), which was commissioned by MySpace.
The study identified six social network personality types, listed below. Can you identify which “social network type” you fall into?
Transumers: People who readily follow others’ suggestions and join groups [...]
Rumours are emerging that Nokia is in talks with Facebook to port the generally still-in-favour social network to its range of handsets. Sources have suggested that this could be as prominent a placement as the “YouTube” button is on Apple’s iPhone.
Facebook could benefit from Nokia’s advertising campaigns in retail outlets, and there’s even the possibility [...]
There is a social media platform that has been created specifically for Internet marketers. It is modeled after MySpace. There’s also an opportunity for AdSense revenue sharing by inserting your AdSense ID.
Come and join in!
This whole month of January I’m fully occupied promoting my sites and blogs through social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking is very essential now a day it’s an easy way to drive more traffic in your sites and get valuable backlinks. These bookmarking sites can be saved privately but mostly users set their sites in a public mode, to share their sites to other groups or members. In social bookmarking you can organize your sites tags and put it in subject folders you want. I found this very interesting site in terms of social bookmarking try to check it out the 125 Social Bookmarking Sites and start bookmarks you’re favorite sites and share it to others.
If you want to be more effective with driving traffic to your website or blog with social media, here are five steps that are sure to improve your results.
1. Targeting the Right Sites
There are hundreds or maybe even thousands of social media sites that you could be using. Obviously no one has the time to [...]
Chris Winfield, President and Co-Founder of 10e20, put together for Search Engine Land a 10 step action plan to help people become more successful in social media, which relies on becoming “more connected and more plugged in,” something that is often forgotten when managing a social media campaign.
What are his steps to social media [...]
Social networking site Facebook has been judged to be the slowest and most inaccessible social networking site, according to a new report.
According to research conducted by website and application monitoring service WatchMouse, despite its popularity amongst users, the network took the longest to load up.
of 104 sites studied, 51 showed very slow loading times, achieving [...]
The Electrogarden Music & Social Network The Electrogarden Music Network is a complete multi-media Social Network offering hosting features to Artists, DJ’s, and Fans of any style including Indie music, Gothic music, Electronic music, and Industrial music. The site has many Articles, Reviews, daily Music Charts, and a vast list of Member features. On the Electrogarden Music Network artists can manage andcustomize profile pages where Music, Images, and Videos can be uploaded.Digital Sales are enabled for artists to sell products and songs individually. Profiles are personalized with complete CSS control.Members can create profile pages and everyone can network, Add Friends,Post Blogs, Comments, and Guestbooks. All profiles come with a completeand dedicated Forum. Music from the entire site can be setup inFavorites Lists and members can create Radio Stations. Features aremanaged through the advanced Admin interface which provides an easy wayto control the content of your persona
2007: The Year of Social Networking An article at PC World does a great job of summarizing the major developments in social networking space in 2007 and ponders over the prospects and uncertainties for 2008.One insightful point mentioned in the...
Exista un plugin care ne poate usura viata de blogger. Acesta a fost modificat de krakuin si s-a numit initial SOCIABLE. Lui krakuin i-a venit ideea sa modifice un plugin wordpress de social bookmarking in care sa adaug principalele siteuri romanesti in domeniu. Acest plugin modificat se cheama “Romanian Social Bookmarking”.
Cu ajutorul acestui plugin se [...]
David Delgado imparte dos conferencias en el Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa de la Universidad Pública de Navarra.Ya habíamos hablado de David Delgado en este blog el sábado 8 de septiembre de 2007 en Mapa Conceptual "My Personal Learning Environment (PLE)" ( Mi entorno personal de aprendizaje) de David Delgado.Un post tremendamente interesante en el que nos presenta un mapa conceptual, mapa mental o cuadro sinóptico (de cuya conceptualización habría mucho que discutir) sobre PLE, entornos personales de aprendizaje. Lo que más me llama la atención del cuadro es la doble centralidad de Elgg y Moodle; aunque Moodle, y eso puede ser sintomático, queda esquinao más que como un punto de conexión, como un punto de finalización, de acabamiento, como un mundo aparte.También podéis encontrar el blog de David Delgado en la red social "Sociedad y Tecnología" del que este humilde bloguero forma parte.En fin, al anuncio de hoy "e-l
Women are slowing the pace of men’s growth on the social ladder in Britain, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Oxford University researchers, revealed that ascendant social moving has come to a halt despite government’s assistance to tackle class inequality and offer opportunity for all, and reveals that the reasons for the reversal was greater competition from women, and a slower rate of growth for top jobs. The authorities’ aim to promote ‘equality of opportunity’ failed to mention that any increase in social mobility was likely to create as many losers as winners, with men losing out to the increasing number of women pursuing careers. Co-authors John Goldthorpe and Michelle Jackson studied a social class of 8,000 men and 3,000 women born in 1958 and 1970. The researchers said that the prospects for men were "not as good as they once were". At the end of the study, three quarters of total
There are a great deal of social news sites on the internet, sometimes too many. Most of them are dormant and are no longer active, largely because they were poorly marketed and hence, never had an active community of users in the first place.For instance, this webpage has a list of over 380 social news sites. Most of them are a waste of your time: they are riddled with spam or are so ill-promoted that they’ll never attract a critical mass of viewers or social news participants.You don’t have a lot of time on your hands. You want a community that gives you fresh news on topics you care about. You want something that sends prospects and traffic while branding your website or business. You want a social news site with a long term returns on investment. Here’s a list of some of them.This list is not meant to be comprehensive. It doesn’t include every social news website out there but only the ones which I think has potential for providing you with relevant/fresh news while giving
There are a great deal of social news sites on the internet, sometimes too many. Most of them are dormant and are no longer active, largely because they were poorly marketed and hence, never had an active community of users in the first place.For instance, this webpage has a list of over 380 social news sites. Most of them are a waste of your time: they are riddled with spam or are so ill-promoted that they’ll never attract a critical mass of viewers or social news participants.You don’t have a lot of time on your hands. You want a community that gives you fresh news on topics you care about. You want something that sends prospects and traffic while branding your website or business. You want a social news site with a long term returns on investment. Here’s a list of some of them.This list is not meant to be comprehensive. It doesn’t include every social news website out there but only the ones which I think has potential for providing you with relevant/fresh news while giving
The current proliferation of social media sites is the most pervasive phenomenon on the Internet today. Not since the dot.com explosion has the there been an Internet trend that is so widespread in its popularity. The comparison with the dot.com growth is in fact one that is made by many industry observers, and while there [...]
I was asked if I thought it was worth spending time and trying to "crack" social media. The simple answer is hell yes. Many bloggers have received social media 'stardome' and constant diggs, stumbles and votes. They never looked back and earn thousands of dollars a month.
Reasons and examples to use social media sites like blogging zoom...6 Zoom(s)
The problem for the next President are going to include Social Security and Medicare. Robert Samuelson has another great column on the problem. He writes,"But facing these facts would expose candidates to three daunting problems.
There are many different ways that you can promote your business by using social marketing. It is one of the latest and most popular ways to market your business. You must be sure that your products, services and market will lend themselves to this form of marketing, because it does take a little time to do and you want to attract the right market.1. Myspace: Myspace has become increasingly popular, and is now one of the most trafficked sites on the Internet. There are many tools you can use here. There is a classified advertisement center, where you can place ads. But the biggest way to advertise your business is not to advertise as such but to talk to contacts and mention products and services that can be useful to them on Myspace itself. This is a fun way to market and works well if you are not looking for a very tight niche market. You can specialise a little but this form of social marketing is better for a more general market.2. Forums: Forums are a good form of social marketing,
Social networks are huge, and Yahoo knows this, that's why they have been working hard to develop the next level of social networks, KickStart.Yahoo! KickStart is aimed at matching college students with relevant employers. This new service will give users a profile page where they can post a resume similar in style to LinkedIn. The companies listed in the service can then start up groups which users can join, start a discussion and hopefully get hired. The service is still in a concept only phase, and might never make it to launch. Sounds like it could defiantly be a good way for students to enter the job market, we hope something comes out of this study .Read more here click Me
Social networks are huge, and Yahoo knows this, that's why they have been working hard to develop the next level of social networks, KickStart.Yahoo! KickStart is aimed at matching college students with relevant employers. This new service will give users a profile page where they can post a resume similar in style to LinkedIn. The companies listed in the service can then start up groups which users can join, start a discussion and hopefully get hired. The service is still in a concept only phase, and might never make it to launch. Sounds like it could defiantly be a good way for students to enter the job market, we hope something comes out of this study .Read more here click Me
Here is a little tool to get you not to buy music and get it all for free online, Free music zilla, allows you to download free music from various social music services such as imeem,last.fm,pandora,myspace etc.
Social Networking Articles BlogHere is a place on the Internet where you can read about Social Networking strategies.Free Social Networking Articles, Reviews And TutorialsSocial Networking Articles BlogThe Social Networking Articles Blog has Social Networking and Social Bookmarking articles, reviews and tutorials. The blog has blog posts and articles about social networking and social bookmarking strategies including SEO and web promotion.www.SocialNetworkingArticles.com/
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If you’ve ever developed websites, then you are aware that having a nice template is important to improve your visitor’s experience and to stand out of the crowd.
This is exactly what J.P. Schoeffel’s customers reported when they tried out his latest site-building software, the Niche Video Site Builder.
They also raved about how simple it is [...]
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
Many of the conversations in 2007 were about whether social networks will become centric to conducting commerce, B2B, B2C and P2P.While social networks continue to grow exponentially the next growth curve will be driven by the holy grail of economics“, social commerce. Social commerce may actually become the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Online social networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar this year as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mate-seeking seniors joined online communities.
Google’s freshly released “Zeitgeist 2007″ reveals that seven out of the 10 hottest topics which triggered Internet queries during the year involved social networking.
A Top [...]
KOAM TV — Dec 28 — Personalized lending has taken off as the phenomenon of microfinance has grown in scope and stature. With microfinance, a funding organization teams up with local partners to capitalize tiny businesses, often with just a few or no employees. For Ms. Reese, an IBM engineer, the revenue stream from loans [...]
“Some people think that the physical things define what’s within… So full of the superficial…”
We could not deny the fact that in this world of beauty magazines, you would always feel that there is a need to look good. What would you feel when there are red oily humps on your face? Of course, this [...]
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