Social Media Can Save You Money

In this video from ABC News NOW Money Matters, Entrepreneur, Jen Groover gives her expert advice plus 5 ways you can save money and time by using social media.

Very appropriate in these tough economic times.  Can you think of other ways to use social media to save you money (and time)?  [...]

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2008 Social Networking Statistics

Before I started my international assignment to Tokyo, Japan, I decided to use social networking tools to stay connected with family, friends and colleagues back home in Canada.  I dubbed it my own personal Web 2.0 experiment.
As the year recently ended, I wanted to summarize my 2008 statistics from the various social networking applications that [...]

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Geek and Poke – 2 Models

For all you social networking geeks (hey, that’s me!) out there, this one from Geek and Poke is for you …

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Evolution of my blog

As I sit in my high-rise apartment balcony on a warm weekend summer night enjoying a local Japanese brew and the Tokyo evening skyline, I look back to my older blog posts and reflect on how my blog has evolved.
My early blog posts were text only.  Then, I added a picture to some of my [...]

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Star Wars Celebration Japan

On Sunday, my son and I attended the Star Wars Celebration Japan convention, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Wars (1977) held at the Makuhari-Messe (Nippon Convention Center) in Chiba, near Tokyo, on July 19-21, 2008.

This was the very first Star Wars convention that I ever attended and it was certainly quite an [...]

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BusinessWeek: Big Blue Embraces Social Media

A story on BusinessWeek about IBM published on May 22, 2008, encouraging social networking among its employees with in-house versions of Web 2.0 hits such as Facebook and Twitter – IBM versions are called Beehive and BlueTwit.

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