A recent Forrester Research report suggests that career opportunities in Internet and Social Media Marketing could be opening up in the next few years. With job opportunities opening up and with people in need of work, we thought we’d take the time to highlight how to get your own job in the social media space.
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A discussion within the SocialTimes team stemming from recent news that Buddhist religious leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, was tweeting on Twitter led to the question of whether the microblogging service could be use to deliver religious services, and whether anyone was doing so. In this post we explore how Twitter can be used as a platform for religious services.
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After reading about distributed database solutions and watching the entire NOSQL movement I had to figure out a way to start building something on a distributed database system. While I only needed one server to get started on (i.e. I didn’t need multiple database nodes right away), I already have a couple projects that are breaking from the old MySQL replication plus Memcached problems (effectively articulated here). In other words, it’s becoming a pain in the butt to maintain the system so I decided to dive in. Here’s how I first got setup.
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In the face of funding challenges, startup entrepreneurs have turned to the Internet to raise funds through crowdsourcing techniques and the leveraging of social media. “Friends and family” funding takes on an expanded meaning through crowdsourcing via the Internet. This post looks at some of the ways that a startup can crowdsource funds, and refers to some of the lessons learned by Zero Point Software, a game development studio.
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There has been a lot of discussion over the similarity & differences between status updates on Facebook & Twitter tweets and whether users should actually combine both of them. While there are a number of strategies for optimizing your Facebook and Twitter presence, we thought it would be useful to highlight the various ways in which you can connect the two accounts.
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Social media can really help you grow your brand, personal, professional or otherwise. But do you have what it takes to become a social media god? If you’re looking to take your status to the next level and have worshipers bowing at your feet, take note of the following pointers to help you get on the right path towards eternal life.
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