Dave Pollard has some good tips on time savers for bloggers and other heavy internet users.

Strategic relations consultant Justin Hitt recently reviewed our book, The Five Keys to Building Business Relationships Online:
At first, I thought "not another book about social networking", but truly these authors have done their homework. They start by acknowledging the fact that social networking is nothing new, even using 18th century examples.
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Well, it's official... online networking is now mainstream. It's covered in USA Today. It's the same story that ran in Forbes, and covers no major new ground, but it's still nice to see.

LinkedIn has struck a deal with DirectEmployers. You can now search for a job and then see how to get into the company offering the job.

Do Dashes or Underscores Goose Google Rankings More? The answer is: dashes. So when you post a file on the web, separate all the words in the file with dashes.

According to Forbes, there's more than love to be found on networking sites.
For the most part, it's just a high-level view, but Xeni Jardin of Wired and BoingBoing raises the same concerns over boundaries between personal and professional that so many people have recently:
"The key limitation in many of these services is they mush together Read More...

Last week, I talked about Biz Stone's tips on how to network with Blogger. His tips are all right on track, and I highly recommend you read them before continuing with this article. But in going over it, I also realized that some additional explanation of a couple of the tips might be helpful, and that there are a few key things missing if you're trying to use your blog to increase your visibility and build business relationships, i.e., "network".

Chris Allen has some excellent 'Advice to Social Networking Services' .

If you're already familiar with RSS, ignore this post. If, on the other hand, you're wondering what all the buzz is about, Lee LeFever explains RSS in plain English, and why you might be interested even if you're not into blogs.
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As Mark Pincus, founder of Tribe, recently said at the BDI event in New York, “All the social networking sites are a dumbed-down version of what’s going on in the blog world.”
Blogs and online journals have been used for building stronger relationships for as long as they have existed (else what's the point of it Read More...