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I’ve often said that social networking can take up your entire day, if you allow it. You sit down at your desk in the morning, and you see several Facebook event invites and friend requests. As you log into your account, someone’s Facebook status update catches your eye, and before you know it, 3 hours have passed while you’re reading and responding to social networking messages. How can you possibly get any work done in your business or for your clients at this rate?

Facebook doesn’t have to be a time hog. As a matter of fact, you can actually handle most of your Facebook tasks in as little as 15 minutes per day. Here’s what I do when I log into my account each morning (thanks for wonderful training I’ve received from Facebook guru Mari Smith for these great tips):

1. Update your status. This is the first section that you’ll see on your homepage when you log into Facebook. While you can do this from your Facebook account, I prefer to update my status in Ping.fm, as this service will update my status in all of my social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and MySpace. However, if you’re using only Facebook for social networking, then go ahead and use the status update there.

2. Review your news feeds. This is the first tab on the right on your home page. In this review, you’re seeking stories on which you can share your expertise and on which you can comment. Some of your comments may be personal in nature, but this is a great opportunity to showcase your experience in your field and industry.

3. Review news feeds of your friends. This feature is available from the home page as the down arrow on the far right of the home page tabs and permits you to view the feeds of your Friends Lists. Friend Lists allow you to create private groupings of friends based on your personal preferences. I’ve got my lists created by industry, i.e. Coaches, Virtual Assistants, Marketing Professionals, People to Watch, etc. Pick one list and comment on those feeds just as you would your own.

If you have no Friends Lists, here’s how to create them: , Click Friends at the top of any Facebook page. From the following page, click “Make a new list” on the left. After typing in the title of your list, you can add friends to your list by typing your friend’s name into the “Add to List” field. You can also click “Select Multiple Friends” to the right of the field, which will allow you to select many friends from your entire list. After making your selections, click “Save List” to store your changes.

4. Review status updates. Take a quick moment to breeze through the status updates of your friends, and click on those on which you feel compelled to comment. Many people feed their blog posts into their status updates, so this is a great way to get out and comment on the blogs of others without having to search out relevant blog posts. In this case, I comment on the blog itself rather than the Facebook status update. I usually only go through one page of these to ensure I remain within my time constraints.

5. Acknowledge birthdays. These are listed under Events and Birthdays on the right side of your homepage. When you click on the birthday person’s name, you’ll be sent to their wall, where you can write your personalized birthday greeting (make more effort that just simply saying “Happy Birthday!”). I also take this opportunity to find out a bit more about the friends on my list by clicking the “Info” tab on their home page and quickly scanning their profile. This helps me start to put names and faces together and get better acquainted with my network of friends, And, I take this opportunity to add people to Friends List as appropriate.

6. Review friend requests. Add friends as you see fit, or according to any guidelines you have set for yourself. Facebook guru Mari Smith suggests setting up a “Friending Request Policy” in which you write down the conditions under which you’ll accept friends (i.e. picture must be on profile, have to have other friends in common, have to have submitted a personal note with the friend request, etc.) and to help you in your decision-making.

7. Respond to event invitations. Your friends will be sending a myriad of invites to various events (most of my invites are to teleclasses), so take a few moments to scroll through those and see if any are of interest to you, or if you have further questions about them.

8. Respond to group invitations. Most of these I ignore, but occasionally I’ll join a private group, usually related to a program in which I’m enrolled. Or, if it’s a group run by someone with whom I want to connect or from whom I want to learn, I’ll accept the invite to the group. If I have time, I’ll also visit one of the groups to see what’s going on and respond to any messages here.

9. Add friends. Facebook does an amazing job of suggesting people I actually know to add to my friends list in their “People You May Know” section on my home page. If I happen to see such a suggestion, I send out a request to add that person as a friend. When requesting to add a friend, I ALWAYS send a personalize request, letting them know how I know about them.

10. Review notifications. The notifications icon is on the lower right side of your home page and lists what’s going on in your account (friend requests accepted, notes on your wall, etc.). This is a good prompt for you to write on someone’s wall when they accept your friend request or to respond to posts on your own wall.

11. Eyeball your own profile. Make sure your profile appears as it should, and take the opportunity to catch up on anything you may have missed with your other steps.

12. Check your inbox. Many of the emails in your inbox are duplications of event and group invites or group emails. When I look at this, I’m seeking out any personal 1:1 emails that I might have received from someone on my list. I’ve discovered that many people I want to contact respond better to their Facebook emails that through emails sent to them (or an assistant) via their website, so I often email them through Facebook, instead.

If you devote 15 minutes per day, or at least 15 minutes 3 times a week, to updating Facebook, you’ll begin to see results from your social networking before you know it!



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Jonathan Haryanto asked:


 

By : Jonathan Haryanto

Social networking is increasingly popular, and have become wildly popular with a varied demographic. The birth of the social networking phenomenon has seen a shift in the way that many people browse the web, and especially in the way that people interact socially. Bebo, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter are among other plethora of social networking sites out there on the net. They seem to have become unavoidable, and spring up wherever you go.

Everything about social networking is based on the profile. People spend hours updating their profiles just to let the world know whatever they happen to be doing. It seems that everyone is trying to live as their own mini celebrity, and suddenly everyone want to know your intimate details on everything from your address and date of birth to your musical tastes. The desire to have the most friends, or the most hits, makes people scramble to get as many friends as they can, even if they’ve never met the person. They add a vast swathe of plugins while bloggers and YouTube video makers are all trying to score as many hits as possible.

Each month there are billions of page views of ‘Web 2.0′ websites as people return time and time again to Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook and MySpace, Social Media sites like YouTube and Blogger and Social Information sites like Wikipedia and Delicious. Cagora has recently launched the first Global Community Network consisting of more than 20,000 local and special interest communities that appeal to all generations. Cagora goes beyond Social Networking, Social Media and Social Information to provide Community Networking, Community Media and Community Information where Individuals , Businesses and Community Groups are all part of the same network.

The popularity of social networks has spurred many website owners to develop their own social networking website or to integrate social networking into their existing website. There are many reasons why you would want to build a social networking website or add one to your existing website. You may want to integrate social networking into your existing website to drive more traffic and expand your user base. Or if you have a company or group, you may want to benefit from a virtual pace to hangout, communicate, and share ideas, content, and files.

Whatever your reason, there are many social networking software platforms that offer distinct features to create your own social networking website, either independently or in conjunction with an existing website. Some are incredibly easy to use but offer limited customization while others require extensive technical knowledge but can run seamlessly with your website. With a little technical knowledge it is relatively easy to fully customize your own social network and even integrate it into your existing website. You also have the option to pay designers to create the perfect social networking add-on for your website. Most will also offer just about every imaginable feature you could want for your social network, making sure you do not loose out on functionality.

Some remotely hosted solutions give you the ability to customize your network’s URL so visitors to your existing site get a sense of congruence as they navigate from your main site to your social networking platform. They give webmasters more intricate control over layout by allowing webmasters to manipulate HTML headers, footers, and CSS styling. Although they take more skill to use, once developed they give your social networking site a more seamless and professional look. Some also offer unlimited storage for pictures, videos, audio, and videos for free. With this, your members will not have to worry about running out of space when sharing content. Others, however, have limits on storage capacity depending on the plan you purchase.

GoingOn is one such social networking software platform that webmasters who are looking for an innovative solution to their social networking needs can use. GoingOn is relatively new, and still in BETA status, which means that not all the modules are currently performing to their potential, but it will be the most feature rich platform among its competitors. GoingOn is easy to set up and requires little technical knowledge. It is also built using open source software which means that it will have even more potential for features and add-ons over time. Like its competitors GoingOn offers a selection of membership options. The paid packages allow webmasters to control advertising while the free packages are controlled by GoingOn.

However, if you need a perfectly functioning platform now, Ning or Kickapps are better options. They are also easier to set up than GoingOn and offer different pricing plans, and have more advanced functionality that can be used as an add on to an existing website.

Advertising on a social networking website created with a remotely hosted platform can very easy to set up and use, while some require more technological skill to set up but the results are worth it if you have the skill or can afford a web designer that does. Some platforms offer innovative advertising programs, while others don’t offer much advertising flexibility. Creators can get total control over advertising including collecting revenue, wile some platforms offer no control at all. Some offer innovative widgets that make promoting your social network easy even on a viral level, others are limited in functionality. So be sure to compare features.

With this free willed disclosure of all kinds of personal information and the ability to so easily carve out your own webspace has really opened up the Internet to the masses and released it from the grip of the computer geek, thus become a hacker’s paradise. Your name, address, date of birth and in fact just about everything about you could become available to hackers to use as they please. Sites such as Facebook and MySpace could become platforms for more serious Trojan attacks. So far social network sites have been hit by relatively harmless worms, adware and phishing attacks. However, with the amount of personal data so readily available it is certainly feasible that online banking data and other sensitive information could become compromised.

 



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Shant asked:


With Myspace, the social networking sites were revolutionized on the Internet. This was because for one, everyone flocked to this site and next, the number is growing every day. This is truly amazing for a social networking site, as not every sit gets such a large number of users. There are various reasons for the popularity of the site to grow to such a large extent.

This is because of the various features that are offered for the site. One such feature is the layouts, and these are available in plenty. There are various sites on the web that offer Myspace layouts completely free of cost. There are various designers too that keep updating these sites, and this is always a pleasant experience. This allows a lot of variety for the users.

If users want to keep changing their Myspace layouts too, they can do so as often as they can. The layouts will make a difference because there are millions of users on this site. As these users are always on the lookout for new friends and associates, they might just hit upon a certain profile. And if the Myspace layouts are used very well, then they will take an interest in the profile.

This may also open doors for various opportunities. With social networking sites, there is always the chance that people are on the lookout for various new friends groups or other interests. They might have not even seen this particular Myspace layout. This is what will make it more interesting, as there are so many of them, and one user might have not seen the other.

Myspace layouts will make a big difference to the profile. As the profile will consist of various divisions, layouts will make navigation very easy. The navigation then becomes very interesting if the layouts are of various kinds. Users will have the options of choosing these various layouts from various categories. There can be cartoons, there can be exciting graphics and there can be love themes.

Depending on what they are posting their profile on the social networking site, they may pick Myspace layouts. There could be people who are interested in entertainment and they would want to form groups of the same. They may then set the layouts to such an extent, and this will make the profile unique. If it is related to the theme of the profile, it is even better.

This allows for a very interesting reading for those who choose to visit the profile. They may even come across this by chance, and what better way to keep them interested than with the visual treat. Besides being interesting, it makes for a visual treat. This is enough to keep the reader occupied, and they will then take the time to read all the information on the profile.



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Shant asked:


Social networking sites have caught on big time in the last few years. The web has no doubt made communication a lot easier through e-mails and instant message. However, it was social networking sites that took convenience to a whole new level, helping you reunite with long lost friends and make new ones. These sites have also facilitated people to create their own personal space on the internet. This shot at extreme personalization is what draws so many people as it lets them stamp a personal statement of their taste and personality.

A good thing for MySpace users is that there is a plethora of sites that offer content to customize their page with MySpace profile backgrounds. With traffic to your page skyrocketing, it is important that your profile looks the way you like it. The MySpace profile backgrounds will be usually the first thing which people notice. . These special resource websites offer quite a lot of MySpace profile backgrounds styles that fit your preference. It does not matter if you a movie nut, a sponge bob lover or a hip hop fan. Maybe you like Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls? Whatever the case, there is a good chance you’ll find what you are looking for.

Even if it is your friend or a stranger, their opinion will be an informed one based on the creativity level of your MySpace profile background. If you are looking to customize your page and you have absolutely no clue how to code them using HTML, these pre-made layouts make for a great alternative. Since, not every one of the forty million plus members currently there on MySpace pages will be to coded using HTML, the readymade layout can be heaven sent to many. Add to that you can change the look of your pages quite frequently at your will. All you need is a follow a few simple instructions on how to go about using free HTML codes. This is normally accomplished by going through edit profile, where strangely you’ll find everything that you will need to edit, change and update your profile.

You will then be able to customize your MySpace profile background using not only the HTML codes and layouts but also HTML codes for MySpace page graphics, icons and even pictures. The code for the layout may be available everywhere, but the installation of the new layout is not going to be easy. Find a MySpace profile background that is a pre-coded, pre-designed layout of your profile with the holders of the designated place for your friends, contact, profile and advertisements. You can choose to display a single large background, if you are prepared to put up with the painful loading times. Browsing through a jumble of free layouts and getting lost because they are not categorized for ease is a common predicament which MySpace users face. The next factor that is stunning is its positioning. Tour codes are really to easy change, you just have to hit a few keys and you’re done. To spice up your MySpace profile backgrounds, do compromise a little on integrities and privacies as some of the free MySpace atrocious layout slips in spasm and codes which fires when your page loads.



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Shant asked:


With Myspace, the social networking sites were revolutionized on the Internet. This was because for one, everyone flocked to this site and next, the number is growing every day. This is truly amazing for a social networking site, as not every sit gets such a large number of users. There are various reasons for the popularity of the site to grow to such a large extent.

This is because of the various features that are offered for the site. One such feature is the layouts, and these are available in plenty. There are various sites on the web that offer Myspace layouts completely free of cost. There are various designers too that keep updating these sites, and this is always a pleasant experience. This allows a lot of variety for the users.

If users want to keep changing their Myspace layouts too, they can do so as often as they can. The layouts will make a difference because there are millions of users on this site. As these users are always on the lookout for new friends and associates, they might just hit upon a certain profile. And if the Myspace layouts are used very well, then they will take an interest in the profile.

This may also open doors for various opportunities. With social networking sites, there is always the chance that people are on the lookout for various new friends groups or other interests. They might have not even seen this particular Myspace layout. This is what will make it more interesting, as there are so many of them, and one user might have not seen the other.

Myspace layouts will make a big difference to the profile. As the profile will consist of various divisions, layouts will make navigation very easy. The navigation then becomes very interesting if the layouts are of various kinds. Users will have the options of choosing these various layouts from various categories. There can be cartoons, there can be exciting graphics and there can be love themes.

Depending on what they are posting their profile on the social networking site, they may pick Myspace layouts. There could be people who are interested in entertainment and they would want to form groups of the same. They may then set the layouts to such an extent, and this will make the profile unique. If it is related to the theme of the profile, it is even better.

This allows for a very interesting reading for those who choose to visit the profile. They may even come across this by chance, and what better way to keep them interested than with the visual treat. Besides being interesting, it makes for a visual treat. This is enough to keep the reader occupied, and they will then take the time to read all the information on the profile.



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