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Jan/12

FREE LIVE WEBINAR: 9 Small Businesses Doing Social Media Right and What You Need to Know

by Belkis Cardona-Rivera under Social Media Events

Michael Stelzner, founder, Social Media Examiner (one of my favorite resource sites), will be hosting a live webinar on Tuesday, January 17th, in a FREE event called “9 Small Businesses Doing Social Media Right and What You Need to Know.”

See http://viafb.com/smmfreewebinar

Michael will show you what smart small businesses are doing right with social media and what you need to know.

By attending this free online event you’ll discover innovative ways your peers are using social media (and leave with ton’s of ideas).

The free seats are limited to the first 1000 people (and the event takes place in just a few days). Be sure to go here and secure your seat now before they’re gone. (continue reading…)

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Dec/11

5 Things I Learned from the Regretsy – PayPal Issue

by Belkis Cardona-Rivera under Social Media News

Yesterday I learned about Regretsy, a fail blog about handcrafts. It basically takes items (mostly from Etsy.com) that are considered art failures and features them on the site. Regretsy also maintains a fund for charitable donations. Last month, April Winchell, founder of the site, wanted to raise money for children who weren’t expecting gifts this holiday season. So she made the announcement of her fundraiser on the site and in a few hours they had enough money to make gifts for 200 families. Unfortunately, she ran into a bit of a problem with PayPal and all hell broke loose.

On Monday, PayPal froze her account because she had used a “Donate” button that she learned is only for nonprofit groups. In her blog post, “Cats 1, Kids 0” she discusses about her “very long and jaw-dropping conversation” with a customer service rep. She writes: (continue reading…)

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Dec/11

Where Should You Post Your Status?

by Belkis Cardona-Rivera under Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media Tips, Twitter

One of my Facebook friends posted this up and I thought it was a great road map to that question people have once in a while – “Where Should I Post My Status?” With all the different social networks and different groups of people, you may have trouble trying to figure out who wants to know what. Well here’s a little chart and it goes something like this:

Google + – For post that you really don’t want people to see
Foursquare – For telling people where you are
LinkedIn – For boring business stuff
Facebook – For personal statuses that is ok to share with even your parents
Twitter – For those not addicted to “likes”
Don’t post it – For anything that would be awkward to explain to your boss or parents

Click the image below for larger version

Do you agree with this chart? What do you think is missing?

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Nov/11

Social Job Seeker Survey 2011

by Belkis Cardona-Rivera under Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media Survey, Twitter

Jobvite, a leading recruiting platform for the social web, recently conducted the Social Job Seeker Survey 2011, which reveals more than 22 million Americans used social networks to find their most recent job opportunity — up 7.7 million from last year’s survey. One in six members of the workforce say an online social network was one of the sources they used to find a job, and those with more contacts get better results.

The Polling Company, Inc. on behalf of Jobvite conducted a nationwide online omnibus survey of 1,205 adults (age 18+) and was fielded on October 24-27, 2011; it included questions on current employment status and the use of social networks to find job opportunities. Respondents for this survey were selected from an opt-in panel and had expressed prior consent to participate in online surveys such as this. (continue reading…)

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Nov/11

How to Preserve Your Facebook Discussions

by Belkis Cardona-Rivera under Facebook, Social Media Tips

Last month, I wrote about Facebook’s announcement to disable the reviews and discussion tabs. October 31^st was said to be the deadline to disable these functions. Today is November 8^th and it’s unclear when exactly Facebook will move forward with their commitment to get rid of these tabs.

Many fan pages use this feature to conduct customer service or engage with their fans so it would be a great loss to have these discussions go away. Today I will show you how you can preserve your discussions. (continue reading…)

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