One of the best ways to take advantage of social media is to use it for increasing your brand awareness. Companies have found many creative ways to use social media and increase their reputation through leveraging the following five tools:

1. Facebook
   

Social media is on the rise for businesses that are looking to take on this weak economy by boosting their marketing effort online. According to a 2009 survey by BtoB Magazine and the Association of National Advertisers, 66 percent of marketers are now using social media. The other 44 percent haven’t found a way to convince their boss or clients the usefulness of this tool.

Seeing as I am a new member to Twitter myself – I wanted to put out there a simple and unique guide to the twitter basics… all in 140 words... Enjoy and Happy Twittering!

Set up your log in information and your profile.
Twitter is a social networking/microblogging service used across the world.

Since the emergence of Social Media marketing a few years back there have been countless books, blog posts, videos and every other form of how you should be using it to your advantage. Let’s be real though, there’s really an information overload out there of what you should be doing and sometimes its hard to get through the muck. If you’re new to the game, welcome; in this post you’ll find 5 simple tips about what Social Media marketing is not. Hopefully you’ll walk away with a better idea of where to focus.

In 1984, Jay Conrad Levinson wrote the first edition of his landmark book, Guerrilla Marketing. In it, he outlined a strategy where small upstart companies could finally compete with the big boys.

2010 is already shaping up to be a banner year for Drupal. While Drupal 6 flourishes and continues to build on its devoted base of followers, the release of Drupal 7 is imminent. Drupal 7 is currently in alpha and many are speculating an official release sometime in the Spring, perhaps at DrupalCon San Francisco in April. I put together a list of things to look forward to in 2010.

Drupal 7 Release
The latest release of Drupal will have major usability improvements. The Drupal 7 User Experience Project had four main goals for the release of Drupal 7:

On December 30th, 2009, Selena Gomez, (better known for her role as Alex Russo on the TV show "Wizards of Waverly Place"), visited Daireds Salon and Spa Pangea (client) for a haircut. Later, she tweeted about the positive experience to her 1.3 million followers.

Almost daily I hear individuals tell me that they just don't understand how social media can help their businesses or further business objectives. It does take time to move individuals like that towards the light. Much longer than I have for this blog post. The best and easiest way I have found is to provide real examples of online success with business models surrounding the online social media sphere.