The World Wide Web was born in 1995 and two years later, news websites followed suit. But it was not until the mid-2000s that social media sites such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg and a dozen others were the trend. These social media sites are not just source of get-togetherness and hangout pit stops but they are also one’s virtual connection to just about anything under the sun. Think of the tremendous application social media offer.

1. Source of News – In the past, we only regard sites such as CNN.com and usatoday.com as our source of online news. With social media sites such as twitter, we can now get our news all in one page. Just subscribe online news sites and link it to your twitter page and voila! You can have updates every time you click on your twitter page from all of these news sites that you had bookmarked.

2. Doing Business Online – Before 2005, business models were highly traditional. Then came Amazon.com, whose business pattern is imitated by hundreds of online business sites. Then came social media as a platform for businessmen. Simple yet cost-effective. If you don’t have that much capital, all you need to do is link your business site to other websites. You may employ various online methods too to promote your business site. What’s even better is that if you don’t want to buy your own domain, then you may use your blogger or Multiply account as a platform of your business on the Web.

3. Meeting Friends - It’s really a pleasure to meet new friends online, learn and chat with them. But the best and safer way to gain lots of friends online is through social media groups in which you can have access to their real profile. This is practically a group for everyone like for example Facebook; there is a group category for Catholics, Hippies, Russians, Naturist and even UFO existence theorist.

LINKEDIN is a social networking site that is especially geared for professionals. That is why LinkedIn is used by millions of professionals and businessmen around the globe. Companies usually direct their workers to create accounts over this free social networking site so they can immediately connect with prospective clients. But with so many professionals and entrepreneurs in the world competing for clients using the same platform (i.e. LinkedIn), one can feel clogged up if one joins LinkedIn for the first time. So here are a few tips on how to accelerate your business with the help of LinkedIn:

1. Find upcoming fund raising events in your area. The good news about LinkedIn is that it is localize. That means one can easily find out fundraising events in your area and immediately link your business page to the page set up by the fund raising organizers over LinkedIn. In that way, you can easily build your social network in the real world.

2. Use the groups feature to promote your cause. The good news is that despite it being a free website, LinkedIn spoonfeeds to its users. You can easily optimize your business site by using the groups feature in LinkedIn. You can either search for groups or create one so that prospective customers themselves will hunt down and search the products and services that you are offering.

3. Answer someone’s question. Don’t take it as spamming. And most importantly, don’t spam. Spam is a bad habit. Answer questions individually, not machine-generated ones. Obviously, the purpose of answering questions is to maximize your social network as more and more prospective customers can see the link of your website when you answer a particular question. And when you do answer a question, give your best shot and don’t blabber so that potential customers will be impressed.

Travel agents or anyone engage in associated industries, have lately been offered a present on a golden platter which is online social networking. The travel industries have been driven by kind utterance of mouth and comparable forms of personal communication. Twitter, Facebook, and other online social networking methods are good example for Internet Marketing in regards with travel and tourism.

Now a day Facebook is an outstanding example. You can create a Facebook Business Page or group that executes a variety of tasks for you. You have a possibility to “yielding sell”. Lucky for us, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, and all other online social networking make it simple to expand “them” to include millions.

When I take a research on Google I found that these days, traveling by air to other countries are easier than you can end your thoughts. Plus there are literally thousands of destinations in over a dozen countries to choose from. Some of the hottest destinations nowadays are Trinidad and Tobago, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Singapore and the United States.

There are many airlines available every day to go to these countries. Some of the airlines which offer real quality service yet have got the most reasonable air fares are Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Continental Airlines and Pegasus Airlines.
Some of these airlines only offer domestic flights within the United States but most of them offer inter-Atlantic flights such as the Southwest Airlines flights.

Lastly, I can really recommend online social networking sites for further information and ideas to make your travel light and easy.

SOCIAL media is slowly gaining trend in the Philippines. In fact, it is being used as a marketing tool. The biggest industry which now uses the web as a marketing tool in the country is the real estate industry. Slowly, the biggest real estate companies in the country – from Ayala Land to Crown Communities and even A Brown – are now using the world wide web to their advantage. They are marketing subdivisions and villages here in Cagayan de Oro City to potential buyers abroad which are foreign retirees from such countries as the United States, Canada and all nations across Western Europe such as Spain , Portugal and Switzerland .

Foreigners would love to stay here in the Philippines because of the tropical climate here. And the world wide web is such an easy tool to use to market upland subdivisions here in Cagayan de Oro such as Teakwood, Alegria and Gran Europa because it is just a click away in your computer. All a potential buyer (i.e. a foreign retiree) would do is type in the keywords Philippines and real estate and voila! – there will literally be hundreds of websites advertising various real estate offerings here in the Philippines .

If you are a real estate firm located here in the country, how do you ensure that your firm’s website is maintained at the top rank of Google search. This is where social media comes in.

The most essential content in an optimized site are the keywords. If you are advertising a subdivision that is located in Cagayan de Oro for instance, make sure your site always has the words Cagayan de Oro and Mindanao . Don’t be too redundant in the keywords though, this is tantamount to spamming.

Next, avoid too much text. Optimize your site through videos and pictures and make sure that your website is updated almost everyday. Websites that are not updated are automatically deleted from the Google list. To do that, you must have a separate blog which complements your main site. Be sure that your blog is linked to your main site. Don’t forget to include testimonials too.

DO you know that you – yes you – are only one of about 11 million all over the world who are crazy over Farm Town and Farm Ville? Yes, Farm Town and Farm Ville – that game application at Facebook – are the latest craze to hit town. That means if you’re not playing either of the two, you’re not in. Farm Town and Farm Ville are played by people across the ages and breaking race barriers. In a sense, it is a world of its own. This is where people gather together for one purpose and living harmoniously. This is a remarkable example of having world peace.

And the stats are even remarkable that Farm Ville considering that it was launched only last June 9. This new trend is called social gaming. I bet this ain’t just a fad. This will surely become a trend for the years to come. And Facebook is reaping humongous amounts of income for the adverts created at the Farm Ville home page alone. Man, this is how an innovative business works! Farm Ville has lots of features which will blow the users’ mind away as one can buy any farm good that is harvested.

DEFINITELY, Twitter is not a fad. Twitter is the medium for individual persons to express their thoughts – whether happy or sad, to relieve them of their angst and anxiety. In any way, Twitter has definitely helped ease emotional burdens of many people the world over. That and Twitter has likewise been the source of instant news (just one phrase at that) for millions the globe over.

1. Consistent Growth – Just look at the figures. Since its inception in July 2008, readers and users alike of Twitter have steadily grown and the company has not looked backward since. Growth of any website is obviously translated to growth in revenue likewise. The advantage of Twitter is that there are other social networking platform-links which one can use to update his or her Twitter account.

2. Gaining Approval from Big Companies – Please remember that it is not just individuals using Twitter nowadays. Fortune 100 companies use Twitter to update the happenings in their respective firms on a daily basis.

3. Twitter is the number one most social brand – Why? Simply because Twitter is user-friendly and you can update your account within less than a minute because they are just bit-sized texts.

Social media can be an amazing instrument for your business, giving you with more client insight, direct interaction channels and the aptitude to gauge the efficacy of these discussions very closely.

Here are some steps of developing social media plan for your business:

1. Listen. Listen to any byword either from the Internet or word of mouth. In any endeavor, whether business-related or not, the key to innovation is always listening. It’s like eavesdropping. As you listen to various ideas, you can modify those ideas into one big concept and create your own. Evolutionizing an idea is one step closer to success. To assist you in listening and scouting for better keywords in your online business, you may use Social Media Firehose, Latest Blog Mentions Pipe and Alltop.

2. Prepare. There are three substeps to prepare for optimizing your online business. The first substep is to find the proper people who have the best skills to optimize your online business. The second substep is to set the rules in optimizing your site whether in chat or forum threads. There are templates on this available online. The most reliable of them all is Channel 9 Doctrine built by Microsoft. The third substep in preparing the optimization of your online business is to define your strategy. Multiple strategies disseminated at the same time is always the best – whether chat, forum thread, comments posting, linking of your online business and establishing a couple of blogs to co-exist with your main site.

3. Engage. This is the actual action of optimizing your online business. Aside from chats and forum threads, there are several ingenious ways in promoting your site like establishing your own YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal or Plurk accounts. If you do these for fun, why not do these for your business?

Conclusion:

The possible payoff for corporate social media involvement is huge. These firms will have a better sense of how they are professed by their goal spectators, they will found a two method dialog with main stakeholders and they will authorize their clients to talk with them.

MAKING your website search and social media-friendly is so simple that it doesn’t entail any tech geekie to do that. The first factor is so obvious that you may have missed it a hundred times – fresh content! Why yes! Obviously, your website ranks higher in search engines if it is refreshed every now and then.

If you want your website to be always number one in search engine rankings, then you update every day if possible. Don’t just blabber about anything though, make it senseful. Fresh content doesn’t mean that you bombard your website with text. Fresh content may also mean audio or video.

The next factor for a searchable website would be the sense of the content of the website. And that would include inputting in interaction with website viewers such as forum threads as well as allowing even anonymous viewers to comment. If numerous comments enter into your website, the more probability that this trending would be picked up by search engines.

The third factor would be to add a supplemental webpage or two to your main website. This may come in the form of a blog. You can even use Wordpress or Blogger for that. And you can also utilize popular social networking sites to promote your webpage because membership for these is free. Examples are Plurk, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace or in case of the Philippines , Friendster.

And the last factor that would affect the searchability of your site is its ability to be easily linked or embedded to other sites. Don’t forget this factor as well.

TWITTER is one of the most popular networking sites in the world today. It combines the social networking of Facebook and the blogging feature of Blogspot yet Twitter’s tweets are just one phrase long – needed for people in this modern world who are on the go.

1. Twitter Grader – for me, this is the most reliable Twitter tool for you to discern which Twitter accounts to follow. Some people do have 2,000 twitters following them. You can easily distinguish these Twitters through Twitter Grader.
2. Twinfluence – Following the Twitter bandwagon, Twinfluence uses a more mathematical approach in computing which Twitter deserves to be followed.
3. Tweetcloud – if you have a Tweetcloud application installed in your Twitter, you will immediately know what this guy you’re following is blabbering. If the guy you’re following is blabbering nothing, then he doesn’t deserve to be followed.
4. Twitter Karma – can know which person doesn’t follow you at all. You can have the choice not to follow him or her through.
5. Friend or Follow – has the same objective as Twitter Karma but this application is more user-friendly.
6. Qwitter – lets you know every time a guy stops tweeting you.
7. Nest.Unclutterer – this particular tool allows you to monitor which of your Twitter friends you really want to associate with.
8. Twittoria – digs out all the people who have stopped following you or you have stopped following. You can monitor their current posts by simply installing this application.
9. Tweetsum – simply organizes neatly your Twitter account and all the people who have twitted you.
10. Tweepler – for people who are really on the go. This tool manages your Twitter account and trashes what are so-called Twitter spams.

Most users choose to get Digg and value the everyday stream of information. Others, like me who desire to discover the internal works of this seems that arbitrary.

To recall the early days, the only way to find out how Digg works was to monitor. Fortunately, nowadays, Digg analysts have a huge number of tools; here are some tools that everybody wants to discover the nuts and bolts of Digg.

• SocialBlade – this new tool works great on huge resolutions. It digs up the stories that strike Digg’s front stories and shows the number of digs as well as remarks for each story – including the person’s name of the submitter, profile and submission numbers.
• Digg Explorer – is an interactive visualization in which circles are fluidly positioned in various ways to emphasize patterns of interest. For instance, you can see the numerals of most frequently used proper nouns on Digg and the stories that contain them.
• Digg Trends – this is an interactive instrument that demonstrates trends in words usage over time and word associations for stories that reached popular status on Digg. This tool has also been created by Jeff Clark, the guy who brought us Digg Explorer.
• Digg Comment Viewer – a web based application focuses on following you or your friends’ comments on Digg, it actually reveals some data. Each user you type in it makes a free view of all the user’s friends, their friends. Moreover, you can see how many up and down votes each comment had received, as well as the net result. Lastly, it provides some general comment-related statistics.
• DigChart - possibly the most looking application in the group, DigCharts takes 10 well-liked Digg stories and compares their popularity in pie chart format. It also gives a chart that demonstrates the history of a Digg; it’s appealing to see how some stories rapidly become popular and fast fade away, while others retain their popularity over a longer period.

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