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Social Networking Abroad [INFOGRAPHIC]

by Stephanie Frost March 2, 2011

While Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and YouTube may reign supreme in the United States, around the world, there are local competitors cropping up to compete with these services. Check out this wonderful infographic from Ogilvy which shows sites like Renren and Douban competing with Facebook, Welink and Uchi.cn against LinkedIn, and Youku.com against YouTube.  Very [...]

Tagged as: china, Facebook, linkedin, social networking, Twitter, youtube

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Secrets to Using Facebook to Market Your Business

by Stephanie Frost December 6, 2010

Since I’ve been talking about Facebook a lot recently, I wanted to share this article I came across.  So today’s post comes from Tony Bradley at Entrepreneur.com. “Your business can’t afford to not have a Facebook presence. The social networking site now has more than half a billion users — despite users’ privacy concerns, and [...]

Tagged as: Facebook, small business, social media

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Facebook Pages vs Personal Profiles: Know the Difference

by Stephanie Frost November 30, 2010

Funny that I was just having a conversation with someone about this last night and then, today, I see a business that has set up a personal profile using their business name. I used to see this mistake more often than I do now but occasionally I’ll still stumble across a business that has set [...]

Tagged as: Facebook, Profiles vs Pages, small business

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Mashable: In Defense of Facebook

by Stephanie Frost May 16, 2010

In Defense of Facebook A great piece on privacy and Facebook.  I think it boils down to the fact that Facebook has done a terrible job of communicating to its users what the changes mean for them.  As I said in my previous post, I hate what they have done but it’s a great site [...]

Tagged as: communications, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy

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I Hate Facebook…but I’m Stuck With It For Now

by Stephanie Frost May 13, 2010

When I first signed up for Facebook, I had a very strict policy of not befriending people I didn’t know or hadn’t met in person. I viewed it as my inner circle and considered it a safe place to post more personal information. That said, I wasn’t so naive as to think that any of [...]

Tagged as: Diaspora, Facebook, Facebook Invades Privacy, I Hate Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Zucked

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A Word About Targeted Advertising

by Stephanie Frost January 19, 2010

Today, Facebook has decided to bombard me with ads mentioning my age–<cough> 41–at the top of each one.  Now, I’m not one of those crazy women who won’t tell you how old they are.  I don’t care.  As a matter of fact, I’ve decided I may start overstating my age so instead of people thinking [...]

Tagged as: Facebook, Gary Vaynerchuk, targeted advertising

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