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Get an Adventurous Job with EscapeTheCity.org

  • June 21st, 2011 by Damian Davila

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going” is a popular English language proverb.
What about when the going gets boring?
British entrepreneurs Howe, Symington, and Jackman have the answer for that with their startup, Escape the City.

According to its founders, Escape the City is a community for corporate… Read more

Looking For a New Job in the Professional Sector? The Privacy Settings You Should Set on your Facebook

  • June 20th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Nowadays everyone has a Facebook account, from celebrities to politicians to probably even your grandmother. Social media sites are becoming more and more popular as people continue to look for new ways to connect, interact and share pictures with each other. Although Facebook might seem harmless, this is not always the… Read more

Facebook Marketing: Tips you Must Master to Make Money

  • June 16th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

It is no secret.  Facebook is everywhere.  You can’t pull up a newspaper (or an RSS feed, depending on your fancy) without finding something new about Facebook.  Many use Facebook for fun, and many use it for money.  What most people don’t know is that there are clear rules in play… Read more

Facebook Smear Campaign Against Google Is a Sign of Power Struggle

  • June 16th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

The backyard brawl that is the tech industry just got a little dirtier. On Tuesday it was confirmed that Facebook engineered a behind-the-scenes smear campaign against its competitor Google. The Daily Beast reports that Facebook hired public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller to spread anti-Google stories to news outlets. The goal of the stories… Read more

Twitter, Facebook or RSS Updates: Which One Is Better for Your Blog?

  • June 15th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Social networking websites are gaining much popularity in recent days for their outstanding features that are beneficial to the bloggers, especially. For those who want to update blogs for their business, social networking websites functions as an excellent marketing tool. But to get benefited majorly from the social networks, it is… Read more

Does B2B Really Need to Worry about Social Marketing?

  • June 14th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

If you’re involved in any kind of online marketing, or if you just happen to be aged 14, then the chances are you will have active Facebook profiles, Gmail accounts and you are constantly Tweeting your thoughts to the world. It’s only natural for those whose lives are absorbed by climbing… Read more

Career Opportunity and Facebook

  • June 13th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

If you’re in the market to find a new job in the current financial wake – it might be worth taking a peek at Facebook to help you successfully get a new job? Social media is getting more and more popular and many of my friends have actually used websites like… Read more

FaceBook’s Latest PR Problem

  • June 10th, 2011 by Annie Wallace

Facebook recently expanded its facial recognition abilities to include users throughout the world, where it previously (as of December 2010) was only available in the United States. There’s been a bit of an uproar for two main reasons:

    Facebook failed to properly prepare users by not explaining exactly what the… Read more

    Social Companies Digging Deeper into Data Analysis

    • June 9th, 2011 by Damian Davila

    Given the recent performance from the LinkedIn IPO, there is now an ever-growing concern on whether the social media industry is not the newest market bubble (anybody remember the dot-com bust?). While Facebook is the leader in the ad-centric tech that focuses on pouring through volumes of data to learn about… Read more

    Why Social Media Isn’t Going to be Powering Search Engines

    • June 7th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

    Since Google announced that they had been using social signals from sites like Twitter and Facebook as a ranking factor, there has been a lot of buzz involving using social media to improve ranking positions. Some blogs even tested this and proved that social signals (tweets in this case) can influence… Read more