Ask Mirna: What’s Your Take on Facebook’s Privacy Concerns?

QUESTION:
“Mirna, what’s your take on Facebook these days with the privacy concerns? I didn’t like seeing my FB photo, name, text box pop up online.” — Pam W.
ANSWER:
Good question, Pam!  Several people asked me the same thing, since I did not react much to the changes.
As briefly mentioned to you on Twitter, I think [...]

What, LinkedIn Has Free Hidden Treasure?

In the past couple of weeks, I received a couple of inquiries from business owners who found me on Google for the terms ‘LinkedIn media consultants’ and ‘LinkedIn social media consultants’ (well what do you know, I come up on page 1 and 2 of Google for these two terms – singular and plural). [...]

Case Study: One B2B Increases Business One Tweet at a Time

Twitter, how I love thee! Twitter has truly been the best tool for connecting with some fascinating tweeps. One tweep, Imad Naffa (@imadnaffa), a civil engineer and small business owner caught my attention a couple of weeks when I read that one of his tweets was retweeted by Queen Rania of Jordan.  I mean come [...]

7 Simple Social Networking Tips for Business

A huge part of business success is networking by meeting people and building relationships.  Many already network for business in the offline world, but now small business owners and entrepreneurs have a huge opportunity to network online through social networking web sites.  For some, social networking is a skill that may take effort.  It truly [...]

Chelsea King: A Whole New Use for Social Networking

When 17 year old Chelsea King went missing on February 25th, her family called the police as soon as it became obvious the teen hadn’t returned from her run. The search for the missing girl started that same night, turning up nothing but a locked car that Chelsea left outside the Rancho Bernardo Community Center. [...]

15 Categories of Social Media

The most popular social media question is:  “Where do I start with social media if I want to use it for my business?”  The very first step is to understand the entire social media landscape before jumping on the bandwagon.  This is paramount if you want to succeed with using social media for your business!
The [...]

5 Ways to Stay Safe on Social Networking Sites

In the past week, we’ve seen some big security issues on both Twitter and Facebook. The first big scare was Facebook’s Fan Check application, which many people claimed was hijacking their account. While the jury is still out on whether or not the application was actually spyware, it caused many to accidentally download malware while [...]

7 Best Twitter Apps to Boost Productivity

Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networking sites around and with all those new users have come new ways to use Twitter, in the form of customized applications that do everything from search for jobs to finding people with like interests.
For your convenience, here are my top 7 Twitter apps to maximize the [...]