Facebook Profile Reviews Predicting Your Career Success

The recent study released by "Journal of Applied Social Psychology” in February 2012 shows that Facebook can be used as a tool in defining a person’s potential career and academic success.

The study called “Social Networking Websites, Personality Ratings and the Organizational Context: More Than Meets the Eye?” released by Donald Kluemper, of Northern Illinois University, and Kevin Mossholder of Auburn University attempts to validate the utility of these screening methods, which can be considered a violation of personal privacy.

Forrester Research predicts Interactive Marketing spending will reach $76.6 billion by 2016

A new report by Forrester Research forecasts that U.S. interactive marketing spending will reach $76.6 billion by 2016, equal to TV spending this year and comprising 35% of all advertising. That's a huge jump since this year interactive will comprise 19% of all spending, according to Forrester.

According to the report, search and display will remain to be the biggest pieces of the interactive spending pie, comprising 44% and 36%, respectively, in 2016, though search will have lost share from 55% in 2011. Mobile paid advertising and search will experience astronomic development and are surpassing email and social this year.

Cityville Has Beaten Up Facebook’s Farmville By a Long Shot!!!

After Farmville was released, men and women were saying that it's difficult game as well as tough being surpassed by any other developer. Well, They had been proven wrong mainly because Farmville is now struggling to retain up with Cityville, an additional game that was released a few months back.

Based on statistics, Cityville pooled in 60 million users during the very first 24 days of its launch. A brief recap of this accomplishment was later on considered Cityville’s wide availability in 6 various languages. Facebook, on the other hand, realized this truth just recently and translated Farmville in Chinese language, to catch a wider population.

Perhaps Farmville have hit a few snags though it was rolling close to like a steam engine. Cityville, on the other hand, has not touted out any slow progress. They’re moving ahead at lightning pace just due to the fact the game during the production and development phase for over a year. Speaking of that, most from the online games are released just a few months following their development, which leaves plenty of empty room for improvements. 

Cityville may possibly have similar visuals as compared to Farmville, but the game is stated to be smooth and much more attractive.

Next Generation Messaging - Facebook Email Service

Facebook announced Monday that it is building a full-fledged e-mail system into its 500-million-member social network. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new e-mail offering will be introduced over the next couple of months to all FB users. 

As of now they began to offer a few thousands of e-mail addresses to U.S. members that consists of their user name followed by @facebook.com. It will take little time to make it available to all 500 million members.

FB founder and CEO Mark introduces a new Facebook E-mail Service.

"This is not an e-mail killer, It is a messaging system that includes e-mail. We don't expect anyone to totally switch from Yahoo or Gmail to Facebook." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a press conference in San Francisco.

Facebook is clearly trying to match all the services Google provides around its core search capability. Beyond its messaging capabilities, you share links, photos, instant chat and videos as well. A partnership with Skype allows you to make voice calls from the platform; Google only recently added this capability to Gmail. E-mail is the piece that has been obviously missing, and now it is here.

According to eMarketer, Facebook would collect $1.3 billion in worldwide ad revenue in this 2010, Which is twice that what FB did in 2009.

Getting the Most from your Online Marketing Budget

SEO or search engine optimization has become the heart and soul of the Internet marketing industry and many Canadian MSPs and VARs are looking at Search Optimization as part of their overall online marketing strategy.

Each and every reseller or service provider wants to be on the top of search engine results page (SERP). This has created a need for search engine optimizers who alter and optimize the Web sites in such a manner that they become search engine friendly and bring in traffic and revenue to the organizations.

Like any competitive field of business, SEO hasn’t escaped from the hands of crooks and ne’er-do-wells who make tall claims on search engine optimization. It is important for you to detect such frauds before you assign them an optimization job. Here are a few tips which will help you in sorting a fraud SEO service provider from a real one:

• Guaranteed Ranking: The only people who can guarantee you a ranking are search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing but the fact is none of them do SEO! Not even the top ten optimizers in the world in the world can guarantee you a ranking so never fall for such tall claims.
• Quick results: Good SEO is a time-consuming process. It takes time to organically rank a Web site high. It takes at least a month to effectively reflect growth after optimization. So stay away from catchy claims like ‘First page ranking in 15 days’. ‘Guaranteed results in 7 days.’
• Too-Good-To-Be-True Rates: ‘Quality never comes cheap.’ If you choose the wrong SEO service provider, it can be an exercise in futility costing you time and money. The Internet is a great tool to search for market-standard rates. Do not go to optimizers who quote unbelievably low rates.
• Black Hat Techniques: There are lot of unethical techniques for getting your Web site higher ranking on the Web. The down side of this is such practices might invite permanent penalty from the search engines and prove detrimental for your Web site. Make sure your optimizer doesn’t use black hat techniques for optimization.
• Secret and Proprietary: As the owner of the Web site, you are entitled to know what are the exact optimization techniques that your Web site is going through. In case any service provider denies you the information citing secrecy and proprietary information, it is advisable to stay away from them.
• Technical Brainstorming: If your SEO service provider is bombarding you with technological terms and high end techniques it is most likely that he/she is poor with the application of what business is looking for. Good optimizers seldom talk in technical language with their clients and fake optimizers might want to hide their lack of knowledge with such terminology.  The old ‘dazzle them with BS’ truism comes to mind.

Keeping these things in mind will help you in choosing the perfect SEO optimizer for your job.  It is critical that you find a SEO provider who also understands your target market and the industry that you are in.  Search Engine Optimization is not guaranteed, involves hundreds of variables and is a continual process of adjustments and building authority over time. It is a fine mixture of art, science, and research and never comes cheap. And the most important thing – there are no guaranteed results is SEO.

By Stuart Crawford

Source: ChannelBuzz.CA

Facebook Do's and Don'ts

Tips for Using Facebook

Facebook is a fun and easy way to stay connected to friends and family but it can be a bit confusing at first. Here are some tips to help you make the most of your Facebook experience.

Facebook Dos

Do use your real name. The idea behind these sites is for friends to stay in touch and reconnect. If you use a fake name people you knew in elementary school, from summer vacations, from real-life social groups you have left and friends who moved away, will not be able to find you.

Do use a real picture of you in your profile. For the same reasons you should use your real name, a real picture of you is a must. People can’t tell if you’re you from your name alone. That being said, keep the picture you post modest, provocative pictures send the wrong message.

Do look at the pictures of people who send you friend requests. Even if you don’t recognize them from the photo currently on display you may recognize the person from a different picture.

Do create your photo albums with privacy settings so only your friends can see them. You can change the settings in the future if you want but it is always best to limit who can see the more intimate moments of your life.

Do tag the pictures you post so that friends know when you have put their picture online. It is just common courtesy to let people know when you have put their likeness on the internet.

Do be tolerant when you get friend requests from strangers, especially if your photo is not of you. You may not be the only person on the planet with your name. Just hit reject and don’t worry about it. People are not notified when you reject their friend request.

Do use the Facebook privacy settings to limit who can see your full profile. Set it so that only friends can see things like your pictures, your wall, and your personal and contact information.

Do create a private group for you and your close friends. Make the group administrated and by invite only and only allow friends to join if you know them in real life.

Do limit the type of email notifications that come to you from Facebook. If you don’t you could find your email bombarded by Facebook messages.

Do report any threats of violence or other inappropriate posts or images to Facebook and to the proper real world authorities like school officials, parents and police. 

Facebook Don’ts

Don’t leave the default Facebook privacy settings as set. Go in and customize your privacy. Of particular importance, limit what people can see when you poke or message them before you have added them as a friend. The default setting allows people who are not friends yet and whom you poke or message to see your entire profile.

Don’t be afraid to allow some people to only see a limited version of your profile. Limited profiles show things like your profile picture, your name, and your basic info but do not show things like your wall, your interests, your contact info and any images of you that are not used as in your profile..

Don’t ever announce on your wall, or on any public wall, where you plan to go or who you plan to go with. Cyber stalkers are a real threat and if you have one this tells them where to find you in real life.

Don’t be afraid to join public groups about interests you share. Just be careful what you post on the walls of these groups.

Don’t accept Facebook invites to events. If you plan to attend send your acceptance using a private message or tell the host when you see them in person.

Don’t use Facebook to bully, harass, spread rumors, challenge fights or otherwise incite violence. Facebook is a social utility, not an anti-social utility.

Happy & Enjoy Surfing!!!!