Facebook has surpassed the expected revenue for the year—reaching up to $2 Billion dollars for 2010. Mark Zuckerberg, regarded as times person of the year is truly making history in the social media age.

Everyone knows Facebook and definitely, no one would question its popularity. Posting pictures, everyday status, and communication with relatives as well as loved ones are the forefront usage of the social media network. But now, Facebook has engaged into the business and advertising giants.

Virtual gaming is one of Facebook’s profitable services. Zynga and their other partners are actually earning millions with their addictive social media games via virtual products. The private company doesn’t disclose their earnings on public but looking at the outer details provided by other entities gives us the idea of how Zuckerberg is a full time millionaire.

The data center lease is said to be $50 million annually which excludes about $1 million per megawatt per year of electricity. Additional data centers were built in Prineville Oregon amounting to $215 million, while $450 million for newer centers in Forest City, Rutherford County, Western Carolina.

Employees have gone from 300 in 2007 to 2,000 in 2009. Facebook employs the top-notched software engineers in the land and paying a base salary of $110, 050 for new software engineers.

Zuckerberg has 90 % approval rating from his employees which means a nice working environment and probably a number of employee benefits as well. Advertisements are the other source of profit for Facebook. An estimated 1.3 billion is generated by display ads.

No wonder Zuckerberg deserves the title as Times Person of The Year. The man didn’t only revolutionized the way we look at social media but introduced the mutual link between business processing, marketing and consumers anchored through the ever powerful social media domain—Facebook.

Recently, stories about Delicious began appearing that Yahoo is downsizing and looking to either shut down or get rid of Delicious. The news comes one day after Yahoo slashed 4 percent of its workforce or roughly 600 employees. If this happens, I know a lot of delicious users will be in panic mode. But last Friday, Delicious denied that it was shutting down and made a statement that instead it will shop for a home outside of Yahoo. After news spread that Delicious was likely to shut down, Yahoo says the service live on, after all.

The company emphatically says Delicious isn’t closing as what they have posted in their blog.

Is Delicious being shut down? And should I be worried about my data?

- No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.

What is Yahoo! going to do with Delicious?

-          We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service and our users. We’re in the process of exploring a variety of options and talking to companies right now. And we’ll share our plans with you as soon as we can.

Well, we will just wait and see what will happen next. What will 2011 bring? Stay tuned. We’re almost there.

Recently Facebook have been experiencing many complains about their privacy policy. This raises concern of several business entities about the security of facebook. Since the number of entrepreneurs have created online stores and support on the social media site designed for their consumers.

Facebook is now at its peak and this also means more development for privacy options, additional applications, quick consumer-concern response and additional staff. Many concerns have been raised against facebook—especially in the user privacy options.

Lately, the Business Herald columnist Deborah Hill Cone’s identity was stolen was dreaded on the complex procedure of closing down an account. This was not new to the social media network and for some celebrities which experienced an identity theft.

Another major problem facebook is confronted with, is the cyber bullying issue which is prevalent in many university belts worldwide. Recently, a delinquent student made a pseudo-profile of a 12 year classmate and posted pornographic pictures, sexual references and racial discrimination.

But despite security issues, an Australian Bank owned by New Zealand, ASB Bank established the first virtual branch on Facebook. Which critics consider as not very pleasing to the image of ASB—concerning a social network with security breach.

But to what extent should Facebook imposed user privacy options? Social media is a broad field and regulations should be appropriate and suitable for every different user or else these could harm the progress of the entity. Experts’ advised that Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg should initialize regional managers.

Perhaps the future of Facebook relies on the ability of its captains in sailing against the stormy ocean. The business world specifically the internet has a changing nature. The previous years, Myspace was the hottest social media network until Facebook grabbed the spot with its unique applications and social media trends.

The question is? Can Facebook cope with the user privacy demands of its consumers? Or will it be superseded by a more secure social media site.

Information Technology is one of the trended industries existed today, don’t you agree? Particular here in the Philippines, business process outsourcing contributes to increase the employment rate in our country. And undeniably speaking, call center agencies make employment possible to those who seek for jobs.

Do you know that despite the economic crisis the Philippines is facing now, call center industry is continuously increasing?

Since 2009, this business process outsourcing company is predicted to grow, according to the the general consensus among members of the Contact Center Association of the Philippines or CCAP, “the country’s official trade group for outsource and in-house contact centers”, a report posted in the net.

According to Jobstreet.com, “the last year’s CCAP Annual Call Center Conference and Expo 2009 was “he flagship event of the contact center industry, which attracts around 6,000 executives, managers, supervisors and agents of outsource and in-house contact centers.

“Now on its fifth run, the convention, exhibit and job fair features more panel discussions with CEOs, analysts, economists, support sectors and call center agents; 32 new conference topics on operations, HR, technology and career development; a new conference track for call center start-ups called Call Center 101 Plus; more booths at the expo with the latest products and services and a bigger job fair with more job openings.”

Business process outsourcing jobs like the call center agents and SEO man power are alike being an outsource company here in the Philippines. Basically, Call Center Agents interact with clients from overseas to provide costumer service and sales. They will either do this through the phone, through email, or through chat.

As a Call Center Agent, one must possess good written and verbal communication skills, and should be versatile to work on graveyard and shifting schedules. These qualities are not hard to find as long as the applicants are willing and enjoyable with such nature of work.

Not only does call centers innovate the kind of employment we have as of today, but they really help the Filipinos to have a standard job. No wonder people are so into call centers nowadays. They know they can have a better job in this kind of industry. As a result? This kind of industry increases in rate, regardless of the present case of our economy.

Sept 21, 2010—“the world throws up their arms into the sky”, unity, peace and harmony for a day; 24 hours of pure silence and ceasefire.

To make such day written on history, several organizations, foundations and active citizens organized their respective goal for World Day of Peace 2010. And to realize their aspirations for that day, many of them conquered the social media domain to deliver, invite and gather all savvy citizens all over the world.

Peace One Day—the leading team of peace aspirants convey their invitation to rest of the population of—“total surrender to peace’’—“uniting for one purpose”— and virally tapping one member to another Facebook user with their goals for 09/21/2010.

Peace One day first existed in 1999 bring forth by Jeremy Gilley aiming to put into realization—one day of peace, unity, and multicultural cooperation—of which the world will come to know. On 2001, Jeremy and his team’s effort were rewarded when the member states of the United Nations adopted the first day of total ceasefire on September 21.

The non-profit organization organized its fan page gathering up to 42,987 (as of 09/17/2010) committed supporters and concerned citizens. Their main social media network—Facebook—exhibits different comments from Facebook users usually putting into detail the activities they will work on World Peace Day.

Their Facebook site features the activities the organization to-be-realized plans and events composed of:

• A Peace Day Concert, Le Zenith, Paris
• “ A Day After Peace” Film Showing
• Worldwide PUMA Football Competitions including 192 member states of the United Nations.

Their Facebook page also links the organization’s multi-lingual websites and video documentaries in connection with the world celebration. They also have a Twitter page where supporters can make commitments on the World Day of Peace 2010.

August 23, 2010 –when catastrophe hit the highways of Quirino Grandstand in the city of Manila, Philippines; an event that broke the Chinese families heart into pieces.

Hopeful and adventurous faces of Chinese nationals have been smothered with shadows of anxiety and grief as they take their last trip –for 8 unlucky travelers –fortunate for some who made it through the valley of death.

Two days had passed after the bloody hostage taking yet comments from Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks were just spicing up casting blame and condemnation from different sides; Chinese and Filipinos.

Facebook page of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III shows different emotions of lost, grief, anger and pain; profanity and hatred occupied mostly of the comment bars. Furious users blew out their disgrace on the president and his Law and Enforcement units; labeling them as despicable, unworthy and lacks proper training.

While angry Chinese citizens on Facebook expressed their hatred by organizing Facebook Fan pages condemning the President. However, few have shown understanding of the bitter event and chose to comment guaranteeing words of mutual relationship between Chinese and Filipino people.

On Twitter, action movie superstar –Jackie Chan reach out a friendly hand on the Filipino community. The action star had just arrived from South Korea when confronted with the sad event. The movie star tweeted this on his official Twitter account:

“I remember the day before in Korea we talked about how people should love each other. We already have so many natural disasters..typhoon, tsunami, everything. Humans should be united and not kill or hate each other”

Despite the ill-fated event his people experienced, Jackie never showed any grudge on the Filipinos; he even offered friendship in a gentle manner.

Overall, the social media served as the last outlet for confused, angry and concerned citizens for self expression and information as the current issue lags out of the online reality and leave scars in the real society.

Lately, the Aquino government utilized social media networks for reaching out to the Filipino community. As an easy access, concerned citizens may now post comments and suggestions for the government issues. Social media will provide a place for mutual understanding between the government and the people with one cause –Unity.

Social media with its multi-faceted usage pour down to the peace and order keepers of the Philippine country –the Philippine National Police (PNP).

The PNP recently announced to the public through several news networks that crime fighting will now virtual with the use of Social media; Facebook and Twitter. The PNP maintains a fully operated 24 hour monitoring through the PNP Directorate for Information Technology and Management System.

The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Deputy Regional Director for Operations Chief Superintendent George Regis reaches out to the public for assistance in capturing most wanted criminals of the nation.

Recently, social media networks aided in capture of computer Mark Dizon which is responsible for the death of six Filipinos, an American, a Briton, and a Canadian in series of attacks last month. The relayed messages of Dizon from one friend to another made possible his capture when the PNP got hold of the message.

Ivan Padilla, a big time car theft boss was caught through disseminated personal photo and a modus-operandi report which gave the PNP an idea of their movements and the Facebook account of one member led to the capture of the rest of the culprits.

But PNP admits social media has limits. The statements and evidence coming from social media cannot be considered as hard evidence in Philippine court hearings. Others posted comments expressing that as desperate act by authorities and it will be hard to bypass privacy options. Some thought of the possibility of security breach due to hackers.

However, there are those who found such initiative to be relevant and necessary. Some lauded and even encouraged the PNP to dig further improvements regarding cyber fighting of crime.

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In Sacramento California, there are about 100 guests joining the session about the social media.  The event was hosted by the Sacramento Social Media Club.  The mission of the event is to help the local artist familiarize on how to use social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more to build their businesses and stay competitive despite the economic problem that we have now.

But generally, the event is not only ideal for the local artists in California but all over the world.  It is a reminder that it is not yet the end of the world and there are ways how to make your skills talents renowned not only locally but internationally.  Since we are now in the high-tech and innovative ways of life through the use of the internet, it is not only common businessmen who can use the internet for their businesses but as well as artists all over the world.

Painters, bloggers, web comic creator, web photographers and more can use the advantage of the internet to show the world that they have these special skills and talents that everybody can be proud of.

During the event in Sacramento, Veronica Delgado who is the owner of the Vera Icon PR begins the discussion by reminding the attendees who were all artists that “the more the art collector loves the artist, the more they will love their art’.  Therefore, with the help of the social media it would be easy to build great relationship with people all over the world.  In order to succeed in your business, building a relationship with your targeted customers is necessary.

The best social networking sites to go nowadays are Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and more.  But when making a relationship, do not immediately market your business with them, because they might find you as a spammer and would not come back to your page anymore.  The most important thing that you can do as of now is to give them the trust they were looking.

As we can see, social media nowadays became a trend of our life and it is as well the easiest way to promote whatever business that we have, making friends and building relationship with people only we know online.

Comparing the status of social media five years ago and social media of today makes a vast difference. Famous present social media communities like Facebook and Twitter leveled up to a higher rank these past days, and they have developed a creative way to empower common users by expressing themselves in blogs, forums, videos, photos, files and more.

However, social media development has come to a different approach in today’s times. It is not just a simple medium for expressing insights online, but it has even the source to find potential clients for business promotion. YouTube alone even reached a number 24, 17,800 visitors already, and so does Facebook with 33, 12, 600 visitors. Businessmen analyzed how social media boost their marketing strategy, that’s why it is being used for product promotion and advertisements already; particular on Facebook wherein users can like a product’s Facebook link. With this, promoters understand the current pulse of costumers and they know how dominant their product’s current status is.

What is the function of social media in the field of marketing? Well, Social Media does change the way people find out about new products and services. In fact, social media services guarantee maximum endorsements corresponded with strategic goals and objectives. Media Master PR and Advertising illustrates how social media plays a vital role in social networking, blog marketing, reputation networking, social bookmarking, and viral marketing. With these strategies, advertisers stay competitive and updated with the latest trends onto what how they’re going to make their products inviting.

Among the numerous social sites scattered in the web, MySpace and Facebook are two of the competing social sites used for social media marketing, since these two are close to 200 million registered subscribers. Both sites have their own advantages, especially to MySpace which “doesn’t place any artificial limit on the number of friends that [subscribers] are allowed to have, so if [they] can attract thousands of followers, this won’t present [them] a problem,” a written statement from Social Media News and Trends. Apparently, Facebook can also be extremely effective as it forces you to build your relationships and to add value. With this, it builds trust and ultimately makes contacts more likely to buy.

Are you planning to make your marketing strategic and innovative? The social media community guarantees to make the most of your product. Social media will develop your brands in the most comprehensive and advanced method ever known to technology today.