Social networking for business — it WORKS! Why am I waving my fist in the air?  You will just have to click on the video to see! I’m just not much of a video guy but hey, I’m trying!  Here’s a little story about a wide web of social connections coming together over a period of two years to create extraordinary new economic value for me, a university, a client, and several valued business partners. What is your best social networking story? Would you share an experience in the comment section? MORE >>

One tip I got from my friend Nate Riggs is to use Socialflow to work out the best times to send out a tweet. By {grow} Community Member Ian Cleary. Being organized with your social media efforts is essential because it can be so time consuming. It’s easy to spend many hours on social media but are you using that time effectively? Here are 8 tools that I use on a regular basis that helped me be more effective and efficient on social media and hopefully it will help you too! Monitor and Build Relationships on Twitter with Commun.it. Commun.it Suggested people to follow. my company name. MORE >>

They do great work! I’m especially interested in any small businesses that are effectively working the blogging channel. My reaction to most company blogs: “Blah, Blah and Double Blah!&#. recently taught a class on corporate blogging at the amazing social media marketing graduate program at Rutgers University.  In my research for the class, I pored through hundreds of websites looking for examples of the best company blogs in the world. In fact, they are so far ahead of the rest of the corporate world that I found it unfair to rank the professionals with the amateurs!  MORE >>

Your content keeps working for you month after month! .  . Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Look at companies like General Electric who do an amazing job with their blog and yet have almost no “community&# or comments at all. There must be some good business reason they do it, right? . There better be. Every corporate marketing activity must somehow be tied to creating shareholder value and blogging is no different. Search engines give preference to websites that have fresh, relevant content. Tweet This! MORE >>

Which students had higher scores became a friendly competition causing students to work even harder at engaging others. Imagine that: students wanting to work more to develop skills that current marketing employers are searching for! By Todd Bacile, Florida State University. Thirty-five” was the answer to the following question posed to a marketing agency’s hiring manager: “ What is the minimum Klout score a college student can have and still be considered for an internship at your firm ?”. Klout matters to employers. And here is an inescapable fact. The average Klout score of 16.7 MORE >>