Passions That Pay

I have been twittering now for about a month and so decided to write a post about what I really appreciate about the tweets I read, what I could do without and one sure fire way to make sure I won’t follow you.
3 things I love to read about:
1. Great resources and links to interesting [...]

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Twitter is now all the rage. My Passions Skype room has been doing in en masse (yet another great reason for support rooms - learning new technology together is so much easier!).
Twitter is referred to as microblogging and it exists to answer one simple question -”What are you doing?”. So how can it possibly help [...]

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C/net reports that Facebook are making sure that applications are giving you a way to skip the step of inviting friends to be informed of the application you are downloading. If, like me, you cringe at having to spam your friends when you want a particular app or you are tired of scrolling through [...]

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There is constant buzz about Web 2.0 and social marketing and new terms fly thick and fast. It can be hard to keep up. I have been hearing the term social bookmarking over and over but didn’t feel I properly understood it so I have researched it and wanted to share my findings with my [...]

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One of the stronger features in Facebook to my mind is the groups and networks feature. You can join networks based on geographical location, your workplace or where you went to high school or college. Groups on the other hand can be based upon anything at all that you feel you may have in common [...]

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This week I will be concentrating on Facebook. Built initially as a way to connect students at Harvard University, Facebook still has a very studenty and fun feel to it. Now it has become one of the most popular of the social networking groups and more and more entreprenuers are looking very seriously at Facebook [...]

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I have started with LinkedIn as I hear so many great things about them. My friend and networking expert Carol Deckert highly recommends LinkedIn and attributes client acquisition to having her profile there.
Setting up a profile is a piece of cake as it steps you through the various parts.
For me though the trouble is [...]

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Networking has a long history in the offline world. It can be informal - mentioning what you do for a living at a party is networking and considered vital in certain industries such as entertainment. Or you can attend more formalized situations specifically set up to network for business.Most chambers of commerce organize mixers for [...]

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I have always believed in the power of networking but have been lax lately on following up on it. I have a profile with most of the networking sites but haven’t worked them effectively. So I am setting myself a target to spend a week at each of the major networking sites (and a couple [...]

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