“The most powerful relationships between partners are when both parties have considerable power and there is low potential for conflict, which has certainly been the case with Facebook and Zynga so far," Rita McGrath, an associate professor at the Columbia Business SchooMcGrath told PCMag.com two months ago, while assessing Facebook’s IPO filing. One can’t help being biased, is it always [...]

Media has been defending free expression since its inception, and even now the battle ensues. Sometimes it’s the government, how many of you know that Facebook is non-existent in China. Sometimes it is in the name of attacking sentiments, personal, religion or any other that provokes entire groups of people to attack another. In the present case, it pertains to the employer demanding passwords [...]

As recruitment becomes more specialized, jobseekers are finding it increasingly challenging to find a suitable job that matches their skills. Companies, in their frustration with the innumerable number of irrelevant CVs, end up rejecting all of them in a single sweep. To keep away from the common fish, ensure you have a social network profile that shows up on search engines. Jobvite study shows [...]

“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.” – James Nathan Miller The whole concept behind the social media is to make your word go viral. Human interactions back your words up like no other medium. Pictorial definition of actions intertwined with proactive discussions and Q&A session [...]

With over 1,000 tweets now occurring every second, the phenomenon of Twitter seems to keep soaring right along. At the start of this year, Twitter’s volume was less than half of what it is today (roughly 40 million tweets per day compared to 90 million now). Take a quick look at a few interesting statistics, provided courtesy of Twitter and geek.com. At the present rate, Twitter fans are [...]

By now, most people who understand the changes the Information Age has brought to the world also understand that social media has become no small part of that change. The really smart ones among us have gone a step further, choosing to embrace social media not only as an agent of change – but also as a driving force in the quest for finding and maximizing opportunity. How so? Through social [...]

While most can agree that a social media presence is highly advantageous in today’s marketplace, one of the biggest mistakes a company can make is to assume that one social networking site or another is the ideal place to begin. The temptation is obvious – if everybody’s on Facebook and Twitter, why not dive in and start creating fan pages and Tweets right away? While an enormous number of [...]

To-date, there is numerous social networks to keep track of. Micro blogging network twitter to upbeat media like Facebook, Social bookmarkers like dig, delicious to social slides and video blogging networks like slide share and YouTube, are on fire these days. With all these social networks on our finger tips social media marketing if handled wisely can prove to be a sharpshooter to tackle all the [...]

Facebook is now arguably the most widely utilized social networking service in modern times. Not only is it the best place to stay connected with friends and family, it’s also a dynamic and powerful marketing tool that has leveraged the business on behalf of its clientele. A recent statistical analysis shows that more than 25% of US pages views are on Facebook, reflecting upon the vast reach that [...]