Communities Online

Facebook Vs. Gmail E-mail Conflict

We know facebook is now introducing its new service call E-mail Inbox. Which is quite getting news from most of the Tech Experts that its a new battle between Google and Facebook.

Facebook is supposedly launching an email service this coming Monday and the hype is pretty high at this point. With many young users leveraging the Facebook inbox as their primary messaging service rather than email, why would Facebook find it necessary to launch their own email service on Monday?

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Gmail Chat Now Offers Free U.S. Calls

Fans of Gmail Chat will be excited to learn Google has introduced free calls within North America, including Canada, direct from your Gmail inbox.

Gmail users have also received a ten cent credit for international calls, with rates available on the Google website.

Make Free Calls with Gmail

1.Locate the “Call Phone” link on your Gmail contacts list
2.Enter your telephone number on the dialpad
3.Your call is automatically connected through Gmail

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Social Media: The Instant Brand Killer

With the increasing uptake of social media sites such as Digg, Technorati, Slashdot, YouTube and MySpace, together with community bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Reddit and Ma.gnolia, companies the world over can reach their target markets via a whole new channel.

Social networking is like viral marketing on steroids. Companies can release a new product in the morning and have it talked about by millions of users on thousands of sites by the afternoon. Read full story

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Promotion through Social Media

Promoting your website through social media channels is a powerful strategy to achieve online visibility, traffic and sales.

Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn have a combined membership of over 500 million members and growing.

Let IDGLabs  help you create a rewarding social network presence with an advertising campaign that delivers tangible results for your business.

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Press Releases and Article Marketing
Blog and Viral Marketing
Video Marketing*
Social Bookmarking
Email Marketing and Newsletters

- You get free traffic. If your content is good and other people start bookmarking it then it will gain momentum and you will get more free traffic.

- Some people will find your content interesting enough to place a link from their website to your website giving you a relevant one-way backlink.

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How to Set up a Professional Twitter Profile

Twitter is an awesome Social Media tool for businesses. For those who are Beginners at twitter  you should know that it is a great way to connect with not only other business owners in your niche, but it is also a superb way to converse with your customers and potential customers.  Read full story

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Building Real Communities Online

Affinity is the name of the game for communities and social networking tools can really help to keep a community focused on shared values. People like to live near people that are like them, this is a social norm.

But does this norm extend to online communities as well? My basic observations say yes, as I evaluated my own online communities I found that the people I engage with are very much like my friends and neighbors of the physical world. As a matter of fact, some of them are the very same people. Read full story

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