30+ Apps for Doing Business on Facebook

30 Apps for Doing Business on Facebook

Josh Peters is a freelance social media consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah. He authors a blog at Shuaism.com.

Think LinkedIn is the only place for business? Facebook is growing rapidly and it’s becoming a destination for businesses and business professionals alike to establish a presence. Here are over 30 Facebook applications to help promote, network, communicate, collaborate and accomplish more with your business.

How to break up in an online world—and avoid e-stalkers – Ars Technica

How to break up in an online world—and avoid e-stalkers – Ars Technica

Breaking up is indeed hard to do. It can be even harder when you realize that you follow your ex (and more importantly, your ex follows you) on all the social networks—especially if one or both of you really shouldn’t be. Follow these basic steps to make life easier and protect yourself from being bugged, harassed, or stalked.

By Jacqui Cheng | Last updated October 13, 2009 6:25 AM CT

Swift.fm

Emily Chang – eHub

Swift.fm
Create a custom radio station programmed by your friends using Twitter. (Link:Swift.fm)

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Hat Tip to Emily Chang- eHub

Feed Demon 3.0

http://www.newsgator.com/

So you want to stay up to date with news from the Boston Globe and the New Orleans Times-Picayune and 75 other news outlets as well? Feed Demon 3.0 can make it happen. This recently released edition of the popular RSS news aggregator syncs effectively with Google Reader, and it makes it easy to update your subscriptions and share items with others. Visitors should also note the application’s compatibility with Twitter feed reading and tagging features. This version is compatible with computers running Windows 95 and newer

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4 Good Alternatives to TweetDeck & Seesmic Desktop (Twitter Desktop Clients)

4 Good Alternatives to TweetDeck & Seesmic Desktop (Twitter Desktop Clients)

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Hootsuite;

Brizzly

Tweethive; and

Seesmic Web.

TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet

Tired of delivering the typical stream of status updates on Twitter?

Thanks to an open API and a philosophy of interconnectivity, Twitter’s vast array of third-party services has you covered on a number of alternative uses for the famed microblogging tool.

Click here to take a look at a few of them.

FREE NYSBA WEBCAST: Social Media Basics for Networking Attorneys and How to Make LawJobs.com Work for You

Thursday, August 13, 2009
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT
Free Live Webcast

Session Six of the Committee on Lawyers in Transition 2009 Career Development series will cover social media basics for networking attorneys and how to use lawjobs.com.

Panelists: Barbara Beauchamp, NYSBA Web Site Editor, Brenda Estrada, Operations Manager, Lawjobs.com, and Joseph Alesci, Help Desk Coordinator, Lawjobs.com. Register Online - www.nysba.org/August13thWebcast

TwitWall

Welcome! TwitWall – Instant Blogging Companion for Twitter

Just sign-in and your blog is created automatically.
When its too long to tweet, just TwitWall it! With TwitWall, you can embed your favorite videos and widgets, upload your photos, mp3 music or podcasts, – you name it. You can still enjoy the many customization features of Twitter.

Simply Sign-In or Sign-Up on Twitter!

What the Trend?

What The Trend? Find out WHY terms are trending on Twitter

Find out what’s trending on Twitter and why. For each trend, they give you a quick explanation of WHY it’s trending (these blurbs are edited by you!) You can also see the latest tweets, Flickr photos and news stories.

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Hat tip to TechCrunch.

TweetBeep

Twitter Alerts – TweetBeep.com

TweetBeep, allows you to sign up for e-mail alerts to Twitter conversations that mention you, your firm, a client, your Web site or anything else.

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Hat Tip to Webwatch from law.com.