by David Hakala

Recent press reports indicate that people are deserting Twitter in droves. The short-message social network that captured headlines for weeks is suffering from information overload. You sign up with Twitter, follow a few people, activate the RSS feed, and instantly you are flooded with dozens of messages like this:

“Just ate a baloney sammich.”

“Look at the cute thing my baby did…”

“Taking out the trash.”

Who cares, right? The problem is that question on Twitter.com’s home page, the one that text-messaging teens constantly send to each other: “What are you doing right now?” If I want to know, or just open a more meaningful conversation, I’ll ask you. But I don’t want 50 trivial updates per day!
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Even if you think only your immediate circle of friends is interested in what you’re posting online, you could still be opening yourself up to trouble. Unless your account is set to “private,” Twitter posts come up in search engines, while Facebook privacy settings for status updates, photos and so on range from relatively private to open to everyone.

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There are several Twitter clients available for Mac OS X that will organize your Twitter feeds into manageable columns or categories. Besides making Twitter more user friendly, these clients may allow users to Tweet and reply, mark messages, shorten URLs and create groups.

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LinkedIn 102: What’s Next After Signing Up?

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Once you’ve signed up for LinkedIn, there are more steps you can take to make sure you’re getting all you can out of this business networking tool. Be prudent in making connections and recommendations as you build your profile.

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Depending on your objective, social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace can help you make the connections you want or need.

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LinkedIn and Twitter, social networking or business networking communities, have become increasingly popular ways to make powerful connections in the business world.

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by Tina Gasperson Your friends finally talked you into getting a Myspace account, and you dutifully learned how to “pimp your page,” posed for Myspace photos with puckered grins, and checked in each day to see who left you a comment. Just when you felt like you had it all down, now your friends are […]

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Once you’ve found your blogging niche, drive traffic to your blog with keywords, tags, and well-placed links to your blog on social networking sites, forums and email.

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LinkedIn is a social networking site on which people can promote their businesses and themselves by creating a profile and connecting with other LinkedIn members.

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Twitter is a social network that provides business networking opportunities along with purely social “gab.”

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