Rachel Beckman, a staff writer for the Washington Post, writes a hysterical commentary on Facebook advertising:
Advertising and Social Networking, or, How To Pimp Your Friends
Money – Pink Floyd
So just how much are your friends worth? Seriously.
This was a question posed by Gary Stein, a columnist for the The ClickZ Network, in his post Monetizing the Social Networks: “Should LinkedIn set up a system by which I could get paid to advertise a product to my social
Its the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The WSJ’s Jason Fry asked an important question in his Real Time column: Should you have a personal web page?
I say a resounding and uneqivocal “YES”.
Of course, I’m biased. The internet is my daily sustenance.
But when I thought about this question, I recalled a book I read some time ago, called Ender’s
Online Social Networking: A Fancy Word for Friendship
MHLN–the monster also known as Martindale Hubbell/Lexis Nexis–just paid for a survey that found out that 50% of the lawyers already belong to a social network and nearly 40% want to join a social network.
That’s like saying half the lawyers you know belong to the local Chamber of Commerce, most of the other
Look at All the Lonely People . . . Where Do They All Belong? Apparently, on a blog.
According to a SelectMinds survey “Workplace Connections
& Their Impact on Retention, Recruiting, and Productivity,” 83% of workers rate relationships with co-workers as a critical reason for joining and staying with their employer, and alternatively, one in four people quit a job due to feelings of isolation.
If you haven’t heard of SelectMinds, they