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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. This is a variation on Internet radio, named from iPods and broadcasting. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already. People simply log on and listen.

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50 Great Ways To Use QR Codes In The College Classroom

YoungUpstarts

Put a QR code on your office name plate to link to your online calendar for availability and contact information. Connect on social media. Add a QR code to your contact information, and you can make it easy for people to automatically connect with you on social networks. Office availability. Mobile class newsletters.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

Obviously it is build on a social network “follow people&# model that is asymmetric like Twitter. You definitely notice the people who are engaged with your content and you can’t help but click on the link of their name to see just who they are. It also feels very wiki like. Engagement. Game mechanics.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. Of course, this draconian measure does not work; employees can blog under another name, or contribute to a wiki pseudonymously. Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn.

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A Guide To Deciphering Intranet Terminology

YoungUpstarts

Most enterprise intranet activity streams resemble those from major social networks, so chances are your employees will already be comfortable with them. Mentions enable users to tag someone in a post or status message by putting an @ symbol before their name. Most social intranet systems allow for multiple types of messaging.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

If necessary, consider doing this under a different brand name than the one you are wedded to using. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. Bring your questions.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive spoken in some detail about a specific pivot that we went through at IMVU , when we decided to abandon the instant messaging add-on concept, and switch to a standalone instant messaging network. We went through another pivot when we switched again from instant messaging to social networking. Thank you for your nice posting.