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How to Get Over Social Media Shyness

About a year ago was the at least 3rd time someone said to me, oh, you can see my stuff on Facebook. That’s when it finally kicked in for me that FB wasn’t just “for kids.” When I finally signed up, I discovered what an amazing tool it is, and it’s where I get the vast majority of new clients, as well as More »

Who Stretches You?

A hip hop group contacted me yesterday about doing a website for them.  How cool?!  What’s the most surprising client or project that’s come your way lately?

WordPress and the web are the perfect threesome marriage for this group –

they’re already doing good job of attacking MySpace and Facebook, they’ve got branding and images going on.  Now they need More »

Social Marketing Security and Control Tips

Many people and companies are using social networking as an integral part of their marketing strategy.  But if you’re new to it, it may seem overwhelming, especially the part about setting up safeguards.  HoneyBeeBuzz Internet Marketing will do a series on how to secure your privacy while social networking.

Here is Control Tip #1 for Facebook:

Control Who Can See You:

Go to Settings
>Privacy settings (more global): profile, search, news feed/wall, and applications (this is different from the Application settings below. It contains their overview and global settings for applications in general.)
and
>Application settings (application specific)

In order to see your FB, people must be your FB friends. Then certain elements of my profile are limited even further.

Meebo Chat Center – Time Saver

Making good use of social marketing and their chat features but tired of scanning through multiple sites and trying to keep up?  Try Meebo.  It’s what  we would call a chat condenser application.  You register all your chat sites, for instance from Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, AIM, etc., and then go to the centralized Meebo location to chat with all of them.

Here’s a screenshot to give you an idea of how it works:

Meebo.com screenshot

As Meebo says, it’s free, there are no More »

VoxOx.com | Take Control

Looks like a centralizing tool for VOIP (like Vonnage or Skype (which we highly recommend), email, social networking (like Facebook, etc.), video calling, etc.

VoxOx.com | Take Control.

What do you think?  Have you tried VoxOx?

These types of online tools are great time and money savers and are extremely effective marketing and sales tools.  They are also great for intra-company communications, and for running a virtual team.

What do you use them for?  Which tools do you use?