As a social media enthusiast and a 50-something (not much more than that, mind you!) woman who is on the tail end of the Boomer generation, a recent article I saw on ReadWriteWeb that interested me.  
Not because I’m a baby-boomer.  But because I have trouble understanding boomers who aren’t using social media.  As a mother [...]

Nearly 7 in 10 of American adults visit online blogs, communities or social networks, and one-third of those surveyed say they visit these sites to read up on product reviews to help them make purchasing decisions, according to a 2008 MarketTools report.
This statement comes from a post by Christopher Elliott on WorkSmart.com.  
More than half of all small-business [...]

If you do both and find yourself re-posting your blog posts in your Facebook, there’s a better way to do it.  Facebook can do it automatically for you everytime you post.  It goes into your FB Notes and shows up on your New Feed.
I used to do this and it WAS a great way to get [...]

Getting tired of the same old patter on your Facebook page?
I have four words for you.

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Have you tried it?
 
It’s a lot of fun for a day or two.  Check it out…
1. Go to the bottom of your Facebook Home page…to the bottom of your new feed.
2. In the left-hand corner you’ll see Facebook ©2009 and [...]

 
Some surprising facts about how we communicate.  These statistics are staggering.
 
 
 

By 2010, Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers
…96% of them have joined a social network  (96%!!!)
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Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
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Years to reach 50 million users:

Radio – 38 years
TV – 13 years
Internet – 4 years
iPod – 3 years
Facebook added 100 million (not 50 million) users in [...]

Perhaps you know exactly what an RSS Feed is and how to get them…you have a feed reader and have information you care about coming into your computer on a daily basis. 
If so, move along.  This post isn’t for you.
If RSS feeds are a mystery to you and seem like way too much trouble BUT, [...]

 
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…with a Gravatar.
 
What’s a Gravatar?  I’m glad you asked!!!
 
“Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?”
The image your choose for your [...]

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Google Wave is coming…
 
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 [...]

“Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on.”
Stan Schroeder recently wrote a post on this subject for Mashable.  He [...]