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All I Need to Know About Social Media I Learned from Jason Alba

Robin Ferrier is the Communications Manager for Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County. As the Communications Manager, she oversees media relations, community outreach, marketing, publications, and special events, and manages the Campus’ web presence, including the web site and its presence in the social media realm. Robin also engages in limited legislative affairs activities and works [...]

Everything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You

It should hardly need repeating at this point: When you post stuff to the Internet, people will see it, and quite possibly use it in ways that you don’t intend. And yet, either people keep finding new ways to make the same mistakes, or other people keep finding ways to use that information.
Two recent cases [...]

5 Ways to Kick Off Your Social Media Outreach Activities

This blog covers many topics regarding running your business online and we talk about social media quite a bit. However, I don’t think we have really provided you with some basics to get started if you are trying to make sense of all the tools out there. Sure, we have covered Twitter and the Twitterverse [...]

Top 5 LinkedIn Lessons from Lewis Howes, author of LinkedWorking

A few weeks ago I was at SOBCon and one of the people I met was Lewis Howes. He was an arena football player, he is also an inventor and a sports networker. During some down time from recovering from an injury, he created a sports professionals group on LinkedIn and over time became a [...]

I don’t know you : LinkedIn Connections : Top benefits of Linkedin and tips on inviting more people

I have been a member of Linkedin since 2003 and that was my first foray into Social Networking. I have built up about 1.1k contacts and here are the top benefits.  Here are some interesting stats of my LinkedIn Usage:

Linkedin Answers
- Asked 13 questions and answered 45 questions
- 50% of my questions related to information [...]

You Need Social Networks

In this next video segment from the Solutions Stars Video series, we’ve got 10 social media luminaries in 5 minutes, telling you, the small business owner, some reasons why You Need Social Networks. Check out the video (and see the full series on available on Blip.tv):

Here are some recaps of what they said:
Guy Kawasaki, [...]

Event Review – Web Content Mavens on NOT Creating Communities

Last week, I went to the monthly meetup of the DC-based Web Content Mavens. It’s a good group, centered around people who work on all aspects of Web content. Members include people who deal with the nuts and bolts of Content Management Systems (applications for managing and publishing stuff to the Web — popular CMSes [...]

LinkedIn is for Connecting

LinkedIn is well known as a place for business professionals to network with like minded people. It’s easy to use and with a few extra steps beyond creating an account you can find new opportunities for your business.

Here are five steps to get you started after you create an account.

LinkedIn is where the customers are

I was fortunate enough to attend the Graphing Social East Conference organized by OReilley media last week. The keynote was by Adam Nash, Sr. Director, Product at LinkedIn. The key takeaway for me was that the Linkedin users are the right target for business tools. Some tidbits from the conference and a Business Week blog [...]