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Become visible on Google by folowing these tips (07/23/2010)
(...) I have mapped this into my communications plan to write two articles per month - I've already seen the benefits of having just a few articles on the Internet. Another idea is to be interviewed for an article. Not sure how to go about being interviewed by a reporter? Peter Shankman has a website called "HARO - Help a Reporter Out". (...)

How to create a YouTube video to promote yourself (07/23/2010)
(...) According to the Press Release facts on the YouTube website, people are watching hundreds of millions of videos per day and ten hours of video are being uploaded every minute to the YouTube website. On ways to produce a good quality video, Erin shared the following tips and resources: She recommends a Flip camera - she uses the Flip Mini HD camera. You can either have someone hold it or place it on a tripod. (...)

How to create a custom Twitter page and use other Twitter features (07/23/2010)
(...) I was able to use the hexadecimal numbers (4c859e) provided by my designer to customize my colors. However, you can also use the eyedropper tool in Photoshop or a similar program to identify the color in your picture and provide its hexadecimal number. Tools within Twitter On the right side of your home screen, you will find the sidebar with the "@" replies, Direct Messages (DMs), Favorites, Twitter Search function, and any Saved Searches you've created. (...)

Tips for getting more Twitter followers and managing your tweets (07/23/2010)
(...) RT @Twittername." Saying or a quote - remember to always give credit to the author! What you are doing - you can use this opportunity to say, in a warm way, that you are looking for a job in some industry. Answer other people's questions. (...)

What are Twitter directories and how to use them (07/23/2010)
(...) Again, networking is key to career transition success! WeFollow is much like Twellow. You have to pick three tags (or attributes) that best describe you. Twitter Grader. (...)

What management tools are there outside of Twitter (07/23/2010)
(...) They are looking to see how you express your thought leadership and how you are engaging with others in the Twitter community. Remember, that a tweet is much like an email - you cannot undo a tweet. You can delete a tweet, but within a couple of minutes, Google has indexed the tweet. (...)

The history of search engine optimisation (05/01/2010)
(...) The Black Hat SEO, known as "cloaking", is as you may think reffered to illegal methods of promoting a site. Although mostly webmasters are those who take advantage of these bad methods, there are the sites of well-known companies that used to do the same such as BMW or Ricoh. Among these cloaking techniques we find spam messages on sites with a great number of visitors such as MySpace or Youtube, spammers being either robots or humns that send messages in which they present in such a way certain sites that makes most of the readers be curios and click on sites that are very often malicious, therefore getting infected. (...)

The influence of social networking on self identity (01/21/2010)
(...) Such an emphasis typically hinges on, and reinforces, the use of mobile digital media to capture and image moments of self-expression, identity and play. For example, one has a Facebook Profile picture along with a customizable Profile space where all sorts of applications including ‘virtual bookshelves' and ‘music collections' can be set up. Consumer taste is thus heavily foregrounded; friends can rank and review movies, and gauge their compatibility with others' interests. (...)

The Internet and the World Wide Web as social phenomenons and the New Media (01/19/2010)
(...) Yet, it is important not to overstate this part of the Internet's origin, and to remember too that its development is part of a number of other political, economic and technological projects, some more or less driven by the state, some by the computer industries, some by countercultures emerging from hobbyist and hacker groups interested in computing as a tool for democracy or revolution. These strands are often divergent in their aim, but share at root a belief in networked computers as a tool for progress (however that may have been configured). Of course, the Internet is not just computers and phone lines (until recently the principal means of connection between the ‘nodes' of the Internet). (...)

New uses of the Internet emerge almost daily (01/19/2010)
(...) Email was initially seen as little more than an add-on to the main work of the Internet, which was sharing access to computers to make more efficient use of their processing power; yet, email has become an almost ubiquitous communications medium - too ubiquitous, if tales of email overload and email addiction are anything to go by. Many of us now feel disconnected and ill at ease if we can't log on at least once a day and check our messages, but go back 20 years and our jobs and lives ticked over quite capably without email. Nevertheless, uses like email have become so stitched in to the fabric of everyday life for millions of users, making it commonplace to the point of banality. (...)

Social networking sites change the use of the Internet (01/19/2010)
(...) Started as a site to share homemade video clips, YouTube's millions of clips now include user-generated content of virtually every imaginable type, perhaps most famously ‘leaked' clips of current television shows and homemade remakes of film scenes, but also including seemingly random bits of webcam tomfoolery, home video and found footage. So the site now offers clips of all kinds, with all sorts of origin, without distinguishing on the basis of genre, production values, platform, whatever. YouTube evidences new forms of content creation, novel ways of distribution, and changing patterns of media consumption. (...)

Opinions about the Internet and the World Wide Web (01/19/2010)
(...) Such research practice, Wakeford continues, means ‘moving back and forth between long-standing debates in methodology and the distinctive challenges posed by new electronically mediated research'. It seems likely, nonetheless, that the close attention to detail shown in ethnographic studies of Internet use will continue to prove popular and fruitful. Yet, the current alleged demassification and resocialization of ‘Web 2. (...)