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  • 17 May 2013

  • How-Tos: 9 social media mistakes your business must avoid

    Social media has been a boon for businesses small and large, but it's also becoming a minefield for those unable to manage the increasing complexities of the run-and-gun nature of the beast. On a seemingly daily basis, we suffer through one "Twitter disaster" or another. It's becoming so commonplace that "Twitter disaster" really doesn't deserve to be in quotes.

  • 06 May 2013

  • How-Tos: How to Add Video, Images to Your LinkedIn Profile

    LinkedIn's newest feature lets you showcase your professional achievements by uploading presentations, documents, images and video to your profile. Here are step-by-step instructions for improving your LinkedIn brand.

  • 05 May 2013

  • How-Tos: 5 quick steps for using LinkedIn for recruitment

    If you're only using LinkedIn as a glorified business-card collector, an email replacement or some kind of Facebook counterpart for business contacts, you're missing out on its recruitment potential.

  • 29 April 2013

  • How-Tos: Designing your digital legacy

    We lead rich virtual lives on social networking sites like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. So what happens when real life catches up, and our flesh-and-blood bodies succumb to mortality? For our virtual selves, at least, some concrete answers are available--ways to settle our digital affairs after death, while minimizing hassle and heartache for loved ones.

  • 27 April 2013

  • How-Tos: Make your Twitter feed less annoying in 3 simple steps

    It's trendy to complain about Twitter being overwhelming, and to say that whatever value the social media site once had has been drowned in a sea of incorrect, boring, or fatuous tweets. While the first reply to these complaints is, "Learn how to pare down your Twitter streams," sometimes that can be tougher than it seems.

  • 25 April 2013

  • How-Tos: How to Recover From a Twitter Hack

    Do you know what to do if your Twitter account is hacked? Here are four steps to take to regain control of your account and ensure it doesn't happen again.

  • 18 April 2013

  • How-Tos: Get social with OS X's Twitter integration

    Beginning in Mountain Lion, OS X features social media integration options with both Twitter and Facebook, letting you post to the services from the OS itself, as well as sync contacts.

  • How-Tos: Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

    Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.

  • 17 April 2013

  • How-Tos: How to access your old Tweets - and why you might want to

    Here's how you can read your old Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. We also tell you why you should know what you posted long ago on Twitter.

  • How-Tos: 7 quick tips for holding a successful Twitter chat

    A Twitter chat is an awesome way to engage an audience, increase your brand's social visibility, and connect with an audience in a new way.

  • 09 April 2013

  • How-Tos: 5 tips for running a successful crowdsourcing campaign

    Kickstarter might be the poster child of crowdfunding, but the space is vastly larger than you might imagine. And according to a recent report, it's ballooning like crazy.

  • 05 April 2013

  • How-Tos: How to get Facebook Home on your Android smartphone

    Here’s how to get Facebook Home onto your smartphone.

  • 22 March 2013

  • How-Tos: 12 simple steps to safer social networking

    Confession time: I'm an inveterate social media junkie. From Facebook to Instagram to Diaspora, whenever a new communication platform rolls around--or comes back around--I'm ready to leap aboard.

  • 19 March 2013

  • How-Tos: How to get started with LinkedIn

    We introduce the social network for professionals and explain how to create your profile on LinkedIn, how to connect with people and more.

  • 14 February 2013

  • How-Tos: How to use the new Myspace

    Forget Spotify, Last FM or Grooveshark, there’s a new music streaming online service that has the potential to be really big – that’s right, it’s Myspace

  • 12 February 2013

  • How-Tos: Cyberstalking with LinkedIn

    You just left cocktail hour or a networking event and forgot to grab a business card from the person you'd been chatting with. Don't kick yourself. Instead, log on to LinkedIn to do some cyberstalking. It's a much better resource than Facebook, because with just bits and pieces of information, you're still likely to be able to find your target.

  • 14 December 2012

  • How-Tos: How to stop hackers stealing your data

    Modern hackers target the weakest part of your digital defences: you. Here we explain how your data can be stolen, and what to do to stop it happening.

  • 30 November 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Set Up a Pinterest Business Page

    Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter and Google+, social bookmarking site Pinterest has unveiled pages exclusively for businesses.

  • 28 November 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Set Up a Pinterest Business Page

    You have no doubt watched the rise of Pinterest, the latest social media phenom. But have you switched to the new Pinterest Business Pages? Here's how to do it, plus details on its other exclusive features.

  • 18 September 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Add a Cover Photo to Twitter

    Twitter announced several new features today, including new mobile versions and an updated profile page that features a header photo. Here's how you can upload one.

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