by Jay Baer.

As social networking has soared to become the largest voluntary behavior this side of teeth brushing, the money guys have shown up on the scene – right on cue. By all accounts, social media is a gold rush, with companies and consultants of all sizes and descriptions jockeying for a piece of a pie estimated to be $1.6 billion in the U.S. alone.

So we’re faced with a dilemma: do we want to focus on the social, or focus on the media? By my reckoning, from a business perspective we’re tilting toward the latter. Thus, I’ve identified the 5 Dangerous Realities of Social Media for Business.

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By Todd Wasserman

Rebecca Black‘s not the only one who thinks there’s something special about Friday. Two separate pieces of research out this week show that the end of the work week is the best time to get traction on status updates and tweets.

Analyzing more than 200 of its clients’ Facebook pages over a 14-day period, Buddy Media found that engagement on Thursdays and Fridays was 18% higher than the rest of the week, and that engagement was actually even better on Thursday than on Friday. Meanwhile, Twitter Chief Revenue Officer Adam Bain — speaking at the Ad Age Digital conference earlier this week — said that Twitter users are more engaged with tweets on Fridays.

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By Rebecca Coleman

There is a common myth out there we only use 10% of our brains. While this myth may have been debated for many years amongst scientists, Kevin Knebl is pretty sure that most people are only using 10% of what they could be using on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com). I caught up with Kevin, who is a speaker, trainer and advisor in relationship enhancement and networking for business (as well as a professional piano player) in his home in Colorado last week via Skype.

Kevin has been teaching and training professionally for 16 years, now, primarily in the area of networking and relationships. When social media came along, he jumped on that bandwagon pretty quick, because he could see how these tools could be useful for networking.

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By Brody Dorland

You’ve just finished writing a great new blog post. You’re excited that you’ve shared your ideas and expertise with the world. But what should you do next?

As we work with companies to develop a regular content marketing and social engagement routine, blogging is always key. A strong corporate blog can pay big dividends in the form of increased customer engagement and search engine rankings. But what many companies forget is the “marketing” part of content marketing.

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by Alexander Göbel.

Whether it’s Hip Hop with a message or film-making, Tunisia’s youth is enjoying its new-found freedom as well as discovering a new sense of political consciousness and responsibility.

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by JD Rucker.

As Twitter grows in importance as a branding, customer relations, and marketing tool, influence is becoming a key component to determining success in all three areas. While there are many ways to measure influence such as Klout, all seem to migrate to the same three basic elements: amplification, network, and reach.

Increasing any one often has a direct effect on the others, so the techniques to lift one’s influence are similar. There are general tips that gurus give that are often filled with buzzwords such as “engagement” and “empathy.” We won’t be using those words here. Instead, here are some real-world techniques that you can use today to achieve two goals: lift your own influence on Twitter and connect you with others who have influence within your industry.

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By Kevin Knebl

When you’re new to learning about Social Media, the tendency is to focus on huge numbers of Connections, Friends and Followers.  This is normal.  We all like things that look impressive and big numbers look impressive.  Prior to Facebook, where else could you have thousands of “friends”?  It feeds our ego.

Once the new car smell of Social Media wears off, we realize that building relationships is far more powerful than just adding more connections.  Yes, adding connections is important.  But you already have a phone book with tens of thousands of connections.  If it was just about connections, you already have more than enough in your Yellow and White Pages.

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by Kevin Knebl.

As I’ve spoken on stages all over for years on Social Media, there is something that I’ve observed countless times.  Many people seem to think that if they can just gather a bajillion connections on Social Media sites, then the clouds will part and the money will fall out of the heavens.  This thought actually reveals far more about these people than they probably even realize about themselves.  It reveals that they think of people as commodities and they have a lottery mentality regarding wealth.  How naive.

However we are offline, we are probably the same way online, because we can’t outrun our character.  No matter where we go, there we are.  You can tell a heck of a lot about someone by looking at their Social Media profiles, just like you can tell a lot about them if you chat with them at a networking event.  If all they do is talk about themselves, they’re only thinking of themselves.  You don’t need a psychology degree to figure that one out.

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by SEO Tipster.

Over the previous year, Twitter has virtually exploded on to the social media scene. This has offered thousands and thousands of folks to gain publicity for their enterprises and to have enormous good results in online marketing. Nonetheless if you are not sophisticated on the most slicing edge techniques on Twitter, then you will have a difficult time to create the benefits that you wish in your business enterprise.

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This article was written by Ryan.

I’ve been building websites and blogging for a few years now and somehow had managed not to wander over to squidoo or hubpages. Both sites are easy to set up, offer the possibility to make money, and admittedly get a bit addictive. However, I wanted to see which one ranked better, and caught the eye of Google.

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