On September 10, 2009 Twitter changed its terms of service and is now allowing for advertisements on its platform. Twitter has not said what types of available ad units it might offer, but of course this leaves the door wide open for a range of possibilities. Read the rest of this entry

While many internet users go online daily in order to make money, many internet users go online just to have fun. Among such people are many children, who go online for many reasons, including the reason to experience the internet phenomenon and also to have fun. Because of the continued increase of young users on sites like Facebook and MySpace, many people are starting to question the idea of such sites monitoring children’s activities in order to protect those children.

Today we ask what may be one of the most personal questions of your or other people’s life: How should the online activities of your children by monitored by social media sites?

Benefits of Social Media monitoring children’s online activities

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All of us here at SM Notes take these “polls of convenience”  with some seriousness becasue – well you are telling us what is happening out there.  Our very first poll asked the age old question –> “Is Facebook Chat the best instant messaging service?” Read the rest of this entry

Do you log onto Facebook everyday? Is Twitter a part of your hourly life? If you are surprised to hear from us that many people check their Facebook and Twitter status and comments every hour of the day, you may be in a medium where the choice of focusing on the offline business that you may have and that of integrating the online world into your offline business may be the most important decision in your business. Would you change your offline business plan to accommodate online social networking? Read the rest of this entry

For everybody that has a twitter account — obtaining followers in seeking out the people or organizations that you want to follow was a difficult chore up until this year. Twittgeek has come onto the scene and allowed twitter users to help you automatically follow fellow geeks based on keywords that you insert into their database. Twittgeek uses twitter is login information and gives you access each day to seek out as many as 200 followers based on a particular tag or keyword.

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The new age of Social Media and Social Networking is taking millions of businesses in the world by storm. From bakeries, shoe shops and cigarette stalls to movie studios, pizza delivery and making a dentist appointment, the world of social media is allowing everyone to actually interact directly with the supplier of some goods or service. At the same time, the world of social networking allows everyone, including suppliers and buyers, to actually share information among one another. One of the biggest problems that Social Media and Social Networking aim to solve is typical power struggle over information and information. If you incorporate social media of any kind into your actual business activities, you are creating road maps to allow employees and customers to actually feel the need to interact with one another and to share information.

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Facebook Chat allows you to send instant messages to any of your Facebook friends who are online. Every Facebook user has the chat feature enabled by default, resulting in immediate access to all of your Facebook contacts.

Today, SM Notes asks you the elemental question: Do you think Facebook Chat will become the best instant messenger online? Read the rest of this entry

Social media has transformed many aspects of business communications using such tools as podcasting, video casting, online communities, and blogging. Using online distribution services and social media communities like Facebook, BeBo, Hi5, etc., the standard one-page press release of yesterday has become a more powerful tool than ever. Read the rest of this entry

Everyone here at Social Media Notes is excited about our new web site and the direction that we are moving in – social media information that you can use and play with all day and night long!  Our goal all along… has been to build a site that collects and properly organizes all of the social media-related material out there.  How many times have you tried to look-up something… only to find that Google or Yahoo brings back to you 1,245,987 [potential] matches for your search – WRONG!

Come back to Social Media Notes often and become a part of this growing and informative hub of activity.  If it deals with social media… we will be writing, playing, manipulating, and having fun with it!