If you’re on twitter, then you are more than likely aware of a little weekly twitter habit that people take part in on the network. Each Friday, people share and recommend other twitter users to people and take the recommendations as #followfriday or #ff

I’ve found quite a few great people to follow through this weekly twitter ritual. It’s an interesting phenomenon because the recommendations are usually right on. My own preferences and twitter habits mean that I pretty much only follow someone that I’m truly interested in hearing from and trust for a variety of reasons.
The challenge for me …read more

I’m pretty public on my use of social media applications like Facebook, twitter and my own personal blogging. Normally I’m not too worried about what I share on these sites or who reads. I’ve not got much of anything to hide so I don’t think about it what people may think or see when they read something of mine.
 
Speaking with a friend of mine though and they were amazed at how easy it was for someone to find everything they’d said on twitter. Now, let’s clarify, unless you specifically have all of your updates protected, everything you tweet is …read more

I read an article recently about how the use of social networks is really starting to impact people’s professional lives. There’s the challenge of your boss or employer in general being on the same network you are, whether it be twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or a host of others. Most large companies are using online services to monitor and watch what’s being said about them and their brand. Most of us should assume that there are people listening, regardless of whether we think they care of not.

Spending time in the recruiting business and as a manage for other offices, reviewing applications …read more

Screen savers on your computer used to be more popular and important than they are now. I remember when the flying Toasters were the coolest screen savers. Then I’ve seen the Matrix falling icons screen saver and a variety of others.

Sprint has released a new screen saver for their Now network that takes advantage of our quest for information and data. You can pull in your favorite sources of information you want to know about and see them presented on your screen when you’re not busy working. The service also pulls in data from many of the most popular …read more

The big deal the last few days has been Facebook offering users the opportunity to get their own unique “vanity” names for their Facebook profile URL. Granted a short, meaningful URL is a better way to go, but is this really that big of a deal?

I guess I’m just not sure what the big deal is at this point. Yes obviously there’s an advantage for me to have www.facebook.com/jasonlbean instead of http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502473549. But, awhile back I setup www.bnpositive.com/facebook that automatically redirects to my Facebook URL. I think this method is better than the other to because I can also now …read more

I’ve been playing with a new service the last few days called Aardvark. The service combines the idea of social networking with search to create a social search application. This is something I’ve been wishing for for quite some time. There’s a big difference in my opinion in doing a search and considering the results of a million 10yr olds thinking something is cool in Google’s algorithms and getting qualified, expert results instead.

What happens is that you register for the site and as part of completing your profile you provide areas in which you consider yourself having some expertise. …read more

I was recently talking with a friend of mine about how they’re using some social media websites and tools to help them with their small business. They have their own website, are active on Facebook and twitter.

As I was visiting through their site and tools, I noticed that the link to their website in their Facebook profile had been tagged as "abusive" by other Facebook users. This was a surprise to the business owner as they’d never spammed anyone using Facebook or repeatedly posted the link to their site in their own updates or messages.
Normally when you see alerts like …read more