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Do you question whether or not using Facebook, Twitter, or blogs is a worthwhile investment of your time and resources? In Return on Relationship, Ted Rubin and Kathryn Rose present real-world, practical ideas that will help businesses maximize their potential through using community-focused tools on the Internet. You'll discover why "That's the way it's always been done" will leave you without any customers.

Just like the meteor that likely precipitated the end of the dinosaurs, social media is having a monumental impact on the world's economy; a change so dramatic that it has created a new business era. Welcome... to the Social Age. What does the Social Age mean for your business? Containing stories, analysis of real-world scenarios, and indispensable guidance, A World Gone Social gives you the tools and information you need to survive - and thrive - in a business climate in which customers hold all the cards...

Blogging for Income is the only guide you need for setting up, managing, and marketing your blog. Brandon Connell is a successful full-time blogger who teaches you everything he has learned about blogging through trial-and-error.

You can live the life you want anywhere in the world. You can be a digital homesteader. Thanks to digital technology such as social media, you can connect with the people who will help you, buy your products and services and provide inspiration as you pursue your frontier.

Most companies today realize the imperative to connect with their customers, employees, and partners through social technologies - Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and elsewhere. But a huge challenge is still in the way: How to build programs and teams for accomplishing all that. While organizations have been fixated on how to use the latest social tool, they've lost sight of how to create a business strategy capable of adjusting to the next wave of technology around the corner.

Technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research - which includes conversations. Marwick analyzes status-building techniques - such as self-branding, micro-celebrity, and life-streaming - to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class, and gender.

We are living in a world in which cows send texts to farmers when they're in heat, where the most valuable real estate in New York City houses computers, not people, and some of humanity's greatest works are created by crowds, not individuals. We are in the midst of a networking revolution - set to transform the way we access the world's information and the way we connect with one another. Studying biological systems is perhaps the best way to understand such networks, and nature has a lesson for us if we care to listen: Bigger is rarely better in the long run.

With Social Media 101, you can quickly bring your business up to speed on the most effective social media marketing strategies. In this one-stop guide based on years of research, longtime blogger and best-selling author Chris Brogan compiles all the tactics and tools you need to get up and running with social media while avoiding the pitfalls.

A groundswell is sweeping through your customers. Right now, they are writing about your products on blogs and recutting your commercials on YouTube. They're defining you on Wikipedia and ganging up on you in social networking sites like Facebook. These are all elements of a social phenomenon - the groundswell - that has created a permanent shift in the way the world works. Most companies see it as a threat. It's time to see it an opportunity.

Eliminate hours of research involved in creating a successful, money-making blog. Blogging can be a lot of fun, but much better if you can generate some income from it. This guide will help your blog succeed. It delivers all the instructions you'll need to pursue and achieve your online goals. Topics include: understanding the different blogging platforms; creating compelling blog content; the different elements that drive traffic to your blog; understanding the different forms of social media and much more!

"How I stumbled upon what my child was really doing in social media. Like most 'undercover kids' he had a "made up name" and account. I cover exactly how I busted him."

Online dating has moved from the fringe to the forefront, but many people still have no clue how to find their match in cyberspace. This powerful audio program presents a proven, easy, and fun method for finding love online, while steering clear of Internet dating hazards. Full of practical tips and techniques, this audio course will save you time and frustration by teaching a fool-proof strategy for succeeding at Internet dating.

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional online network, with over 120 million users in over two hundred countries. The Power in a Link shows you how to employ this remarkable yet misunderstood resource to execute networking strategies and processes for your business, secure deals, and use (not abuse) your existing relationships. Author David Goweln delivers the understanding necessary to map networks, stimulate word of mouth, and leverage unparalleled business intelligence to close deals.

It’s a new era of business and consumerism - and you play a role in defining it.

Today’s biggest trends - the mobile web, social media, real time - have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex information revolution, how it has changed the future of business, media, and culture, and what you can do about it. This is the end of business as usual and the beginning of a new era of relevance.

In this practical guide to successful grantseeking, Alan Silver draws on 30 years of experience to help listeners formulate strategies for winning grants for individuals, nonprofits, and agencies. Concisely written and easy to follow, How to Win Grants demonstrates a three-stage grant development model distilled into 101 actionable strategies, arranged in order of execution and supplemented by helpful checklists

For more than a decade, author Jeremy Goldman has helped companies inject "social" into their processes. In Going Social, he explains the ins-and-outs of platforms such as Facebook,Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, Instagram, Pinterest, and others. The digital landscape offers unprecedented opportunities to breathe new life into brands, spread the word about products, and magnify loyalty.

With Share This! both regular folks of a progressive bent and committed activists can learn how to go beyond swapping movie reviews and vacation photos (not that there's anything wrong with that). At the moment, the same kinds of people who dominate the dialog off-line are dominating it online, and things will never change if that doesn't change. Progressives need to get on social networks and share their stories, join conversations, connect with others - and not just others exactly like themselves.

I fix websites. People call me when their website is failing. This book is about using the power of story to reinvent your website. The principles in this book can make all the difference between success and failure for your business.

As recent events in Japan, the Middle East, and Haiti have shown, Twitter offers a unique platform to connect individuals and influence change in ways that were unthinkable only a short time ago. Twitter for Good is a groundbreaking book that contains the most effective tactics for tapping into the power of Twitter as a real-time information network.

In this revised and updated edition of Twitter Power, online marketing entrepreneur Joel Comm explores the latest trends, methods, and practices for making Twitter work for your business. You’ll see how businesses and marketers are building a loyal following among Twitter members, expanding awareness of their product or service, and even handling negative publicity due to angry or disappointed customers.