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Top Social Media Sites for Students – For every purpose

By amitk On 2010/05/18 | No Comments

If you are a college student you must be having one or the other social media profile. It has been found by a recent study that 84% of university students have Facebook profiles. However, are you aware of the fact that there exist several other social media networks that cater specifically to students? They help you network, collaborate, communicate, and make your college tasks a bit easier. Most importantly, all of them offer free services also. Here are few sites that you must definitely try out.
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Top 7 social media guides to follow on twitter

By Jyoti Mali On 2010/05/11 | 3 Comments

Social Media Guides…there are plenty of them on web, but there are few worth to be followed. When we buzz around the social web, we all want to and need to keep ourselves updated. For this we all love to visit social media channels across the web, that’s why you too are here. We find social media magazines / guides / blogs, revisit them, bookmark or subscribe to them or simply follow those on our favorite media site, be it on twitter, facebook or any other social bookmarking site.

We wanted to make the research easier for you and thus created a list of the most influential Social Media Guides that you must follow on twitter and stay tuned for every update on social web. (more…)

How to Drive Traffic From Facebook on Your Website

By amitk On 2010/05/10 | 6 Comments

Facebook is yet another social network that has gained much popularity in recent years. There have been many other social networks before Facebook, but none could reach the popularity graph of Facebook in such a quick time. Today Facebook is not just about socializing, but even emerging as best social media to post information regarding company or service and can be used for business. You can use this social media to promote your products and services, to acquire new clients, or even get traffic to your website or blog. In case, if you still wondering about how to get target visitors from social media like Facebook on your website then here are few vital social media optimization tips that you can follow:
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M-Commerce Websites: An Important Business Aspect

By amitk On 2010/02/22 | 8 Comments

What is M-Commerce and why do we need it? This question is quite simple but the answer to it may differ depending upon your business needs. M-Commerce is the latest trend in which business firms looking out for online expansion choose to have a mobile website for faster business promotion. Some of the examples where M-Commerce website is presently being used are: iPhone, Nokia N-Series, Samsung Devices and Google’s T-Mobile G1 with Andriod OS.

What is M-Commerce?

M-Commerce is a term used for transactions conducted by mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) for promotional and financial activities using wireless internet connectivity. Mobile Commerce, commonly referred to as M-Commerce, brings the newest possibility for small business to sell and promote their products and services through the medium of mobile devices.
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Tips to Use Twitter for Business

By Jyoti Mali On 2010/02/2 | 1 Comment


Twitter was originally meant for communications between individuals, but with the growing popularity of twitter and as it has become a part of almost every internet surfers life, many organizations have started seeking participation on twitter for one or the other reason.

Twitter has now been used as a communication tool for consumers and businesses alike. Being a popular and easy to use platform, it is popular for sharing information quickly, event updates, relationship building, even for business promotions. Every business uses Twitter in a different way and for a different purpose.

Want to do a market research, communicate with your customers, get reviews from your consumers, build brand identity or want to provide selected highlights or invitations to a conference or event, there are 62 different ways to use Twitter for Business.

If you too want to promote your business with Twitter, Get started today, it can really help. Watch out the video below to have a quick overview of the best ways how you can use Twitter for Business.

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Bill Gates Twittering – Is Twitter looking Rich?

By Jyoti Mali On 2010/01/29 | 1 Comment

Bill Gates, the world’s richest man & the Microsoft co-founder will now be connected with the world through social media. Social media networks are becoming everyone’s part of life, be it rich or poor, famous or common, politician or a student. It’s the courtesy of especially Twitter & Facebook, that even a small query about define 2009 in a single word gets thousands of replies in just few hours on twitter.


Leading names like Barack Obama, Google, Microsoft etc. are few other examples.

Bill Gates along with setting up his twitter profile, has also set up a Facebook fan page, no doubt he must be getting the flood of followers & fans. I am his Fan too :)
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How to Get Thousands of Unique Visitors per day On Your Video

By Jennifer Clark On 2010/01/8 | No Comments

If you want unique traffic for your videos, which can be directed to your site, you should publish your videos at the right place and before the right set of audience. To achieve more targeted traffic and higher number of views and hits, you need to customize your video in an interesting manner.
Video promotion is a new and hugely influential phenomenon in the Search Engine Marketing domain. This kind of information representation is highly appealing and successful. Watching a video is always preferred over traditional media like newspapers. It also allows people to share their interesting videos with friends and family.
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Top 7 Social Bookmarking Tools

By Jennifer Clark On 2010/01/5 | 4 Comments

When you come across a website or resource that is new or exciting, it catches your attention and you would definitely want others to know about it. The best way for this is to send your friends an email or post a message on a forum containing a link to that website, so that your friends and colleagues can also get to know about it. However, in present scenario, things have changed drastically. These days, consumers are using social bookmarking to decide what products are worth investing in, where to shop, where to eat and other consumer decisions.

To aid in social bookmarking, bookmarking tools are used as online dashboard, which is a user interface and present information in a way that is easy to read and interactive at the same time. They represent a user’s own personal library placed on the public record. These when aggregated with other personal libraries, allow for rich social networking opportunities. Another important point that one need to understand is that these utilities are easily available to the user and also to others from all browsers. So, if you are looking to know more about some of the great social bookmarking tools then here is a list of some great social bookmarking tools that you can use-
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Most Important Google Wave Commands

By amitk On 2009/12/23 | 4 Comments

How can you work with Google wave? Well, in my Previous Post( How To use Google Wave?) I had discussed about Google Wave in much summarized way. To continue from there I am going to list out some important commands that can help you working with Google waves.

1) Search Commands:

This is a quick guide to the operators and restricts supported by wave search  Keywords.
1) about:[keyword] — To find waves which have [keyword] occurring anywhere.
2) title:[keyword] — To find waves which have [keyword] in the title.
3) caption:[keyword] —To find waves which have an attachment where [keyword] occurs in the Caption.

2) Status Commands:

1) is:read —To find all read waves.
2) is:unread —To find all unread waves.
Note: you cannot currently do a search like “-is:read” by itself and get reliable results due to an outstanding restriction on mega-store queries.
3) is:mute — To find all muted waves.
4) is:unmute — To find all waves not muted.
5) is:active — To Find Waves currently the same as is:unread.
6) is:note — To find all waves which have you as the only participant and contributor.
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How to use Google Wave?

By amitk On 2009/12/21 | 4 Comments

How you can use Google wave and how it can be useful for you in your daily life communicating with your friends, colleagues and family members. Google Wave is yet another innovation by Google to involve people with internet and revolutionized the social web in today’s date.
You may be wondering what exactly Google Wave is? And is it really easy and useful to the common users. Well I find it difficult to answer when I just started, but now I think it is one place where you can do many things like work, talk, communicate, find friends, make Friends etc what else I need. Nothing much I want in the cyber world of Social networking.

What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
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