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How to Use Social Networking Sites for Marketing and PR

New York Times - Tue Dec 2, 5:05 pm EST

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace can be powerful communication tools for your business, as long as you learn how to use them wisely.

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SNAP Interactive Expects Fourth Quarter Revenue to Exceed $900,000
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 3, 12:46 pm EST
SNAP Interactive, Inc., a leading provider of online dating applications for social networking websites, today announced that it anticipates revenue for the quarter ending December 31, 2008 to exceed $900,000, yielding the Company's 6th consecutive quarter of revenue growth.
Facebook Gets A Browser
Digital Trends - Tue Dec 2, 8:37 am EST
The social networking site is rolling out a system that allows users to browse other sites, turning it slowly into a Web portal.
MeetingWave Files Geo-Location Social Networking Patent Application
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 2, 3:00 pm EST
RIDGEFIELD, Conn.----TTB Technologies, LLC, the owner of the online tool for offline networking www.MeetingWave.com, announced that it has filed a patent application entitled “Computer-Based Networking Service and Method and System for Performing the Same” with claims covering methods for facilitating face-to-face meetings comprising determining the location of one or more users and sending ...
It's Prop 8, the Musical
NBC4 Los Angeles - Wed Dec 3, 6:29 pm EST
The Controversal Proposition has sparked a tongue and cheek musical circulating the web and social networking websites.
Brands Discuss the Value and Impact of Social Media at the Social Networking World Forum
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Mon Dec 1, 11:40 am EST
LONDON----Brands such as GM, Coca-Cola, Cadburys and P&G have been invited to discuss incorporating social media into existing and traditional marketing plans, analysing new methods of measuring and monitoring and examining to how to control and respond to social media.
Nombray lets you cybersquat your online identity
CNET - Tue Dec 2, 3:37 pm EST
Want a personal page on the Net? Check out Nombray, a service that lets you find and claim potential domain names, then coordinate them with your social-networking profiles or blogs.
Microsoft releases next wave of Windows Live services
InfoWorld - Tue Dec 2, 3:53 pm EST
Microsoft has released a new wave of Windows Live services that adds more social-networking qualities to its set of online services. The company unveiled last month a plan to add Facebook-like qualities to its set of online services , which include e-mail, calendaring, instant-messaging, photo-storage, and sharing and collaboration services, among others. At the time, the company said ...
Windows Live gets its social makeover
CNET - Tue Dec 2, 3:22 pm EST
Microsoft's social networking-infused makeover of Windows Live, detailed last month, begins to show itself publicly.
Canada Emerging as a Haven for Spammers
CircleID - Tue Dec 2, 12:27 pm EST
Last month, a California court awarded social networking giant Facebook $873 million (U.S.) in damages arising from the activities of a single spamming organization.
Minneapolis Adds Snow Emergency Info to Facebook, MySpace
FOX 9 News Twin Cities - Wed Dec 3, 3:26 pm EST
The city of Minneapolis is now offering snow emergency updates on Facebook and MySpace, plugging into an audience that was hard to reach in the past.
DailyStrength Acquired By HSW International
socalTech.com - Wed Dec 3, 12:28 pm EST
Los Angeles-based DailyStrength, an online health-related social networking site, has been acquired by HSW International, Inc., a developer of Internet businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to HSW, DailyStrength has 700,000 unique visitors a month, generating 20 million monthly page views. Doug Hirsch, CEO of the firm, joins HSW International as Senior Vice ...
Strategy Analytics Digital Consumer Group Expansion Continues With New Analyst Appointment
Centre Daily Times - Wed Dec 3, 4:47 pm EST
Following record growth in its Digital Consumer Practice, Strategy Analytics is delighted to announce the addition of Jia Wu to its global team of industry experts. Mr. Wu will focus his research on emerging trends, business models and leading players in digital media, online entertainment and social networking.
Illinois takes to MySpace to discourage drunken driving
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - Mon Dec 1, 2:04 am EST
SPRINGFIELD — The state is taking an upcoming advertising campaign to discourage drunken driving to the popular social networking Web site MySpace.
Maybe Canadians Have More Friends
The Hendersonville Times-News - Wed Dec 3, 7:04 am EST
Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to a new report.
Internet sites don't dampen reunion enthusiasm
The Country Gazette - Tue Dec 2, 1:46 pm EST
For hundreds of local people who attended class reunions the weekend after Thanksgiving, Facebook and other social networking sites have yet to kill the spirit of that time-honored tradition.
Toys for Toys Collection at Ice Rink
East Aurora Advertiser - Wed Dec 3, 3:23 am EST
BuffaloME (www.buffalome.com), a social networking website for Buffalo residents and fans of the city, will host an open skate at the new Winter Classic Rink in East Aurora to benefit Toys for Tots on Nov. 29. The skate will be held from noon to 1 p.m. at the rink on Riley Street. Admission is free, but BuffaloME asks that visitors bring a new, unwrapped toy to be donated to Toys for Tots this ...
Nokia's New N97 Aims for the Super-Connected
InternetNews.com - Tue Dec 2, 4:03 pm EST
With a touchscreen and advanced social networking and Net-connected features, the world's largest phone vendor may be poised to mount a new threat to the iPhone.
Social networking finds acceptance in office as new business tool
BizJournals - Mon Dec 1, 1:41 am EST
What are you doing? Tweet.
Colibria Gateway Gets Social
Unstrung.com - Tue Dec 2, 12:20 pm EST
OSLO, Norway -- Colibria, the leading global provider of new generation messaging and social networking solutions, today announced availability of a new, innovative Social Network Gateway, to support the growing consumer demand to be constantly connected to their social networks whilst on the move.
Beware an Orkut Trojan
PC World - Sun Nov 30, 11:46 am EST
Users of Google's Orkut social networking site are cautioned against answering a hoax message that is instead malware.

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