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Social media websites are a modern phenomenon. They have become a force in global marketing. Two sites, www.twitter.com and www.ning.com, are part of this revolution. They form an easy to implement, and use business model which you can use to market and sell your product or service.

There are three reasons to use the Twitter and Ning business model to promote and sell your product or service:

Inexpensive to setup – This model is completely free to setup and use.
Quick and easy… Continue

Social media websites evolved from ideas developed in the mid 1990s. Classmate.com introduced the idea of friends on the internet in 1995. People organized and formed ad hoc discussion groups, which became blogs. In less than 10 years the number of blogs on the internet exploded into the hundreds of millions. People with similar ideas, communicating on the internet, are the basis for social networks and social media websites.

Social media is all about people sharing opinions and comments. Accor… Continue

I just finished updating and revising The Art of Writing an eBook, Use Your Experience and Knowledge to Enrich Yourself and Others, for 2009.

Discover how to use your knowledge and experience to:

+ Make additional income

+ Tell your story

+ Educate others

The Art of Writing an eBook, Use Your Experience and Knowledge to Enrich Yourself and Others, will give you basic tools to help you discover what you are passionate about and how to start writing blogs, journals… Continue

In writing about energy issues, specifically alternative energy, I found that one way to be more energy efficient is to conserve the electricity we use daily. In looking at my computer network, one obvious place to conserve electricity is with my network server.

My network server runs 24/7 and provides network services to a very small business network. My network consists of the server, another desktop machine and 4 laptops; one cable connected and the rest connected wirelessly. Internet connec… Continue

“Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are not just for high school students and techies anymore,” according to Megan Weadock, managing editor of Security Products magazine. Ms. Weadock, in her article entitled Twittering with Disaster, in the May 2009 issue of Security Products notes that social networking sites have a definite role to play in emergency preparedness and response.

After watching the news media adopt Twitter as a communication tool, it was just a matter of time before emergency prepared… Continue