By Rich L Kaye

Considering that today’s students were born wired, and live and play in the world of the Web, the challenge for many teachers and administrators is meeting students on their own turf and adapting to the students’ medium of choice.  Specifically, the emergence of social networks has created a technical gap between teachers, students, and parents unlike any that has previously existed.  The need to use technology in the classroom is becoming more important every day.  Clearly, social networking will be at the core of any technology that is to succeed in the classroom. Read the full story

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By Steven Cancel

An online community is a social network with common interests and goals that people from across the globe can join to share their feelings and views.  There are a variety of different types of communities you can join and many ways to participate and interact within the community. Read the full story

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By Don Suseelan

“Hey listen - I’ve got 3,985 friends!”

A couple of years ago if your friend said this you would have laughed. But now you have got to believe him/her because you are living in the age of Orkut and MySpace and other such online communities - commonly called Social Networking Sites (SNS) Read the full story

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By David Skul

Unethical marketing practices on social media websites has backfired…badly. As in all marketing situations, it pays to have integrity. While much of social networking is out of your hands, there are many factors that you can control that will keep you out of the hot seat.

The first thing that you must always keep in mind when you embark on a social network marketing campaign is that you are joining a community. As with any community, business has its rightful place, but it does not have the right to invade people’s privacy. In your face, non-targeted, spam marketing will get you nowhere in a hurry. Read the full story

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By Andy Goodrich

Marketing through blogs is simple, but can take some real creativity. This is because you have to get on a subject, or topic that will really interest people and make them want to comment. This can mean starting a controversial topic that will encourage their opinion, or talking about a recent event that is still fresh. This can be particularly hard to relate with your website hence the creativity need. Read the full story

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By Robert Speyer

Facebook is becoming one of the most important social networks on the web. The company stated that it has now chosen Microsoft over Google to give a $240 million minority stake in a deal to expand advertising services on the network. This will ideally boost revenue for Facebook and increase Microsoft’s online advertising position. The Facebook-Microsoft deal will even further expand the business, which will help online businesses to reach more people and promote themselves through new forms of media.

It was founded in 2004 as a college student network and has grown into an international network for all people. Read the full story

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By Robert Lavoie

Have you ever wondered if what you know about marketing on Facebook is accurate? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest info on marketing on Facebook.

Using Facebook as an Online Marketing Tool

Social networking websites are becoming more and more popular each day. Websites like these are primarily used as a social utility that will enable people to connect with other people. With Read the full story

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By Steve Chang

If you want to market your business or your products and services effectively, internet marketing is the answer. First of all, you don’t need to be an internet marketing expert in order to promote your products efficiently over the internet. What you just need is to know where to market it on the internet.

Try to think of a website that generates a lot of traffic and one that divides people according to their interests and hobbies. This way, you will be able to know where you should advertise your products and services and you will also be Read the full story

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By Andy Eliason

Facebook.  All the cool kids are doing it.  Are you?

For advertisers, it’s a hard market to pass up.  So many people in one place at one time.  Marketers see something like this and it’s as if their dreams have come true.  It’s got that glowing, shiny exterior that seems to say: come to us.  We have numbers.

Numbers are important in a marketing campaign.  You can’t manage what  you can’t measure.  However, in the Facebook world some of those numbers have gotten them in trouble.  The reason being that in recent times Facebook introduced a new advertising platform.  A platform that gathered numbers that not everyone was comfortable parting with.

Numbers and demographics.  Demographics tell advertisers who and where their potential customers are.  When millions upon millions of users register their personal information on a social site, all of the sudden demographic research becomes far easier than it has ever been before.

But fail to notify your users or give them an opportunity to completely opt out of the platform, and there will be a huge backlash of opinion.  In the space of a month the site can go from “have you tried that out yet” to “remember when everyone liked it?”.

Online advertising propels online development.  We all understand this, and, to a point, we all we’ve come to accept this.  So much so that we barely even notice it anymore.

Here’s a quick thought experiment.  Did you check your email this morning?  Do you check it everyday?  It’s a fairly common practice.  Were you aware that there were advertisements all around your message?  We all know they’re there.  Flashing, pretty colors or creative titles in bold text.  They’re always nearby… just in the periphery of our vision.

Now, do you remember a single one?  Do you even remember what they were selling?

My guess is that you probably don’t.

Online advertising is the epitome of the in-the-moment selling.  If the pretty colors or particular text catch your eye then and there, you might just click on it.  But that means the truth is there’s as much reliance on pure impulse as there is on demographics.

Facebook is the latest in a line of platforms that are trying to deliver the opportunity to receive targeted advertising.  Isn’t that nice of them?  We’re going to use your personal information to deliver targeted advertising, because we have to advertise, so it might as well be for things you’ve given us hints that you actually like.  Oh, and we might sell your information to others, so they can share in this opportunity.

But at least we’ve been given the opportunity to receive ads we want to see.

Wait.  Ads we want to see?

Personal information being used to determine out likes and dislikes?

Let’s face it.  No one wants advertisements.  And rolling out an advertising platform and touting it as something beneficial to a user base isn’t fooling anyone.  And in the wake of the backlash from this platform, Facebook has changed some of its policies and made it easier to opt in or out of the program.

So what about regular online advertising in social mediums like this?  Is it effective?  Do the demographics reduce the dependence on impulse?  Or are the users of social sites so intent on the content that advertising doesn’t even register with them?

Studies have shown that the tendencies of the common user lean toward that last option.  Click rates per page views on Facebook (and other social sites) are extremely low.

It seems people are too busy with socializing to even give into impulse clicks.

Does that mean you don’t need to consider social media in your online advertising campaign?

Not at all.  While there are arguments flying around about the staying power of Web 2.0 applications and whether we’re on the verge of another bubble bursting, that is irrelevant to the current discussion.

In the here and now community works.  Advertisements may not, but advertising isn’t your only option on these networks.

Community works because users feel like you have their interests in mind, rather than just your own.  Community is about communication, and that might be the best advertising you could hope for.

Andy Eliason is a writer at [http://www.main10.com/]Main10, an Internet marketing and [http://www.main10.com/development.php]development firm.  His company works with [http://www.main10.com/advertising/online_advertising.php]online advertising to develop strategic marketing solutions.

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By Lennie Appelquist

There are a ton of social media websites that you can participate in today like Linked In and Friendster, and they all have their good and bad. The best way to choose a community to participate in is to look at  the people who have already joined. For me, Facebook is quite possibly the best sites for networking personally and professionally. I also use Linked In and Myspace.  Of all the social networks, Facebook is the best place when it comes to all around marketing and Read the full story

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