Twitter has had a Suggested User list for several months now, the purpose of it being to help people see where the hottest action is to follow. Their list is about 400-strong, and its influence on Twitter followers seems pretty strong too – most of the companies on the list have more than a million followers. Companies that did not get to be on the list, pretty much have no chance of getting that kind of popularity; and it creates resentment among those that don’t make the cut. A business planning on getting on Twitter would have to wonder about being given the short shrift.

Twitter is a public thing, not private. Some companies forget that Twitter is not personal; they go ahead and carry out personal negotiations with their customers on Twitter, like it was a text message service. Many people balk at the idea that their personal communications are just broadcast to the whole world for no reason. Facebook on the other hand, can be personal. Your communications with a company’s fan page are mostly one-way only too.

Consider this: the most prominent companies on Facebook, happen to be food and beverage majors like Coca-Cola. And Twitter is filled with media and Internet majors like CNN. Media companies need to give their followers a heads up over major stories, and they use Twitter like an RSS feed. Followers look at the links, and head over to the main website, and this fuels advertising too. The food companies don’t need to regularly put out headlines; the more low key affair they have with their consumers, is served best on Facebook.

The multinationals seem to have the best take on how to use Twitter for now. So do major Internet properties like the New York Times. If this is how the big boys make their pick among Twitter and Facebook, perhaps the small business could take a hint.

To begin with, the universities can do the most obvious thing, maintain a presence on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for each academic department, and release regular news of the latest and that goes on in each. A star recruit for a professor at a department would be good material for Twitter, for example. Award-winning research done by star pupils is great material for a university’s image too.

Free stuff is great for a reputation. There are some universities that broadcast on their own YouTube clone page, all the lectures and seminars that take place, for students who happen to miss one or two. Needless to say these are very popular auditions for the university, for potential students.

Inviting scholars on TV interviews as experts in attendance, is great fodder. The more the TV channels get to see professorial experts in action on camera before they put them on TV, the more confident they get University websites are great places to see lots of video clips of scholarly professors speaking on their topics of expertise. The star professors who look good on video, can quickly catch the televisions channels’ interest, and bring great viral interest to the university.

Some universities organize seminars, and invite student participation, expressly to broadcast on YouTube. Everyone gets more serious and earnest just to know that their scholarly interaction is really going to count this time.

Social media just seems to get more and more meaningful with each passing day. Having universities use them though has to be the most powerful of any use discovered so far.

We all know that Prevention is better than cure but, no one really follows it. Our eyes start searching for a solution only when we get affected by any problem. If you’re a nutrition professional and want to earn money then this is the right time to attract people who are searching for a solution to keep their health in good shape.

As people are moving towards the internet for solutions to all of life’s problems, it is a good idea to help people by launching a nutrition based website. Starting a site is not enough to attract visitors; you need to impress them by offering essential features to socialize with others who possess the same difficulty and ascertain the perfect solution for nutrition related issues.

Kootali, a social networking script helps you start a social networking site and provide counseling for taking a proper diet. Also, you can offer a separate space on site to find detailed nutrition information, diet advice, tips and tools for blood sugar control etc and help users stay healthy.

You can even expose your nutrition products throughout the world. Now it’s possible to make audio and video a good marketing tool, through the video and audio features available on the Kootali site. This marketing technique will attract the attention of media lovers and help you earn more money as well.

It doesn’t stop with this, you can post news about current openings in the nutrition field and help nutrition graduates find a position as nutritionist, dietitian, nutritional trainer, dietitian manager, food service director etc.

Web video watching is experiencing skyrocketing growth at the moment. Online video usage is up by 53 percent since this time last year. Video is the future of the internet; people love to get information through videos rather than text. Video pulls more visitors to a website and improves site traffic. Social networking sites have also seen vast growth in the past decades. So a combination of both social networking and video is the way to do it.

Rayzz lite is developed based on this idea to enable webmasters to build an effective video sharing site through which users can network with their friends while sharing videos of high quality. Videos can be categorized under channels to facilitate easy search of videos.

Site owners can start earning by placing banners in the top, bottom and/or side bars of the site. They can also earn with pre-ads and/or post-ads in videos. The internal messaging system will ensure effective collaboration among site members. The maturity warning setting helps webmasters to start a family-friendly networking site which is a must in the current net world to safeguard children.

“There are several keys to the success of our company,” said Sheerin, Vice president of Marketing at Agriya. “One of them is creating a video sharing script. Our latest release of Rayzz Lite is targeted at webmasters who are willing to create a networking site with essential features to connect people and share videos, and make money out of it. We are confident that this script will be accepted by clients just like our other products.”

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Invest your time wisely on the right sites for your business. Spend some time to look at the top networking sites, and figure out which sites you like and are most effective for your business. When social networking techniques are used effectively, it can prove to be a very powerful tool to fetch new business partners, new employees, or simply for building your personal or business presence online.

Start using a social networking site, by preparing an attractive profile page that reflects your business. “The first impression is the best impression”, so concentrate more on your profile page.

Here are some tips to create a winning profile page that makes people want to get in touch and network with you.

• You have to figure out who you are, what your business is, and how you can help others; this will generate more interest and visibility among people. Keep in mind that people are usually in a hurry and they are more likely go to the next site if your profile is too elaborate. Lengthy profiles annoy people, so keep it short and informative.

• You can also include personal information like your qualities, interests, hobbies, family info, etc. It can help you maintain a personal relationship with customers.

• Social networking profiles always allot a space to include a photo of you. Add a photo that shows your face clearly. The main advantage of adding a photo is that it ensures creating quicker connections with visitors, and people tend to immediately connect with someone they can see a picture of.

• Make sure that you leave website and blog links on the profile page, so people can move into your inner circle.

After creating a profile on a social networking site, you can send friend requests to people having interest in things related to your business, and always connect with them. Share information about products and services and give plenty of calls to action such as text that says “click here” or “contact us now”.

Some online mischief-makers can send worms as an ideal vector on site. For instance, if several employees of a given company have records on a social networking site that mention their company’s name, an attacker could send a worm like XSS (enables pickpockets to get the best news and information about people) to hunt down their account details.

The recent attack on social networking sites is the appearance of poisoned banner ads. It was a new type of attack, where if anyone clicks on one such ad, the adware automatically gets downloaded on their desktop and freezes their PC, according to iDefence, a research and security company. Anyway, the issue was fixed after a long time but the attack still found plenty of victims in a huge number of networking sites.

Recently, social networking giant Facebook has been targeted by hackers looking to steal users’ valuable information. It has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, says a security expert.

Facebook had been attacked by four malicious applications along with a new variant of the Koobface virus. These rogue applications try to rob saleable data from profiles of those who open the link.

Every bad experience teaches us to discover a new way to solve the problems. Let us hope, that they will find a perfect way to resolve the security problems arising every hour on the net.

The number of people accessing the internet for anything at all is on a steady increase, and the number of people going onto social networking websites for some reason or the other is mind boggling. Nearly 70% of internet users use social networks of some kind, for some purpose or the other. We have already seen the information rush, where everybody wants to know about everything and the internet serves as a perennial storehouse. The trend is slowly moving towards information about everyone on your friend list. As the line between private and public information blurs quickly, people now want everyone to know what they are doing, what they are thinking, and almost everything else in their lives. Status messages on sites like Facebook, and constant updates on twitter, are not uncommon, letting people know exactly what you are doing, at every step in your life.

Although it started off as a phenomenon, that can almost be a termed a movement among youngsters, older people aren’t staying away from it anymore. Big social networks are having millions of 40+ aged users signing up. The idea of being able to connect with long lost BFFs and people that have been encountered at various stages in life, is simply irresistible.

What’s more, social networks seem to be replacing emails. A few years ago, email seemed like the greatest invention of mankind, doing away with traditional snail mail and making things so much faster. Today, social networks have almost substituted emails. People simply send messages over these sites, which provide options of both private and public messages. It’s easier, faster, and takes very little effort. Besides, you network with a whole bunch of friends together in one place. For the ones with the not so great memory, their presence that keeps popping up at you on the website reminds you that they exist and that you could drop in a word or two. Inviting people in large numbers for events/ parties/ concerts etc are also just so much simpler.

Sites like twitter are driving people strongly addicted to them. People find a compulsive necessity to tell people what they are doing, ever so often. The good thing is, that now people get to have an idea of how people in different parts of the world, living in different countries, following different cultures and speaking different languages think. It has added to the global village that we are turning into. The numbers and popularity of social networks is only going to go up, for a long time to come, and let’s see what new technology takes over next.

By setting aside time for your children as well as your spouse, you will strengthen their belief that they are loved. So how do you find more time to spend with family members, and how do you spend it? Here are some suggestions.

• Read together, cook together and share, take family walks, do some artsy stuff with your child, and share jokes and funny incidents.

• Do not let television or computers come between you and your family during holidays. If your child wants to watch television, suggest an alternative activity that you can do together.

• Schedule a romantic dinner with your spouse. Dinners at a five star Chinese restaurant are romantic, you could even arrange for some good food and have a good time at home.

• Arrange for a picnic with your family. Everyoneloves a permanent memory of time spent with their loved ones in their heart. Take kids on a nature walks and remember to take loads of pictures.

• Sit in a circle with your family and let each member share their cherished memories and talk about why they love being a part of the family. Sayig nice things to each other and complimenting each other builds stronger bonds.

• Let your kids pick out songs which they love from your CD collection and shake a leg with them.

• Make family videos and send them to other family members who are far away.

• Bake or cook together. Sharing time in the kitchen promotes family togetherness and teaches a much needed skill as well.

If you are far away from your family members and want to get in touch with your loved ones, you can become part of social networking sites. There are many social networking sites through which you can share your feelings, memorable photos, family videos and so on.

Webmasters! This is the great chance for you to make money. Just start a social networking site fully dedicated to families and help them get in touch with each other even when they are scattered in various corners of the world.

If you are a small business owner, especially one that operates an online business, you can use social networking sites to promote your business. There are various tools that are available to brand yourself and your products and services, such as videos, discussion groups, forums, blogs, and so on. Many advertising services believe that free advertising is not effective than paid advertising. But this is not true! Social networking sites are the best place to promote your business and products or services without having to spend money. Take advantage of sites to advertise your products and services with clear videos and pictures and get ready to receive tons of traffic to your website.

Creating a network in such sites will not only allow you to share your business information with other business owners, but it will also allow you to develop close relationships with people who have similar interests. This means that you could not only learn or share valuable business information, but you could also walk away with a new business partner or a new friend. If you have clients who are members of the network, ask them to write a recommendation for you, and do the same for them. This can be great way to increase income.

Another thing is connecting with prospects on a personal level, which is sure to builds trust and credibility among them. You can also post events such as workshops and seminars about your services especially designed to meet your customers’ specific needs. These include: SEO services, web design, web development, support services and so on. This will create a very good impression among customers.

Webmasters can create a business profile on social media site to share only information that they want the entire world to see. They can also create a personal profile as well and make contact with other members. It helps to get potential customers, clients, and vendors. They can make changes on their profile, products and company online, and they are reflected almost immediately.

Webmasters can form a network with prospective international buyers and decision makers and showcase new products and services with clear photos, audios and videos, highlight company news, and build brand loyalty. This allows webmasters to make business connections without hard sale. They can learn about latest trends, form business alliances, learn tips and so on within the network.

Webmasters can keep their customers up to date on events, special occasions and other useful information to maintain healthy relationship with customers on social media site. They can form a group with similar interest and gain number of clients and valuable customers within their group of contacts. Also they can make video presentation about their company details, products and services among them.

Social networking site is an extremely valuable resource and if you utilize the resource properly, you can promote products or services effectively. There are countless of social networking scripts out there. So it is difficult to pick a right script to focus your efforts on. Agriya infoway has designed Kootali – open social script available at an affordable cost. It helps you build a social networking site and makes you to sit on your chair and just a mouse click away to make a purchase hastily.