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One of the benefits of creating an open, simple, highly adaptable service like Twitter is the fact that once it takes off, people will try to do a lot of interesting things with it.

In my previous post, Personal Branding 101, we discussed the importance of branding in this web 2.0 world, as well as how to discover and create your brand. In Personal Branding 102 we'll discuss how you'll communicate your personal brand, using social media tools and proven marketing tactics, and then how to sustain your future growth by performing brand maintenance.

Appliance manufacturer Electrolux is heating things up this Valentine's Day - in a virtual oven that is. The brand is using their Facebook application to create a little buzz and do some good in return.

Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.

"These are the official guidelines for social media at Intel. If you're an Intel employee or contractor creating or contributing to blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds, or any other kind of social media both on and off intel.com-these guidelines are for you. We expect all who participate in social media on behalf of Intel to be trained, to understand and to follow these guidelines. Failure to do so could put your future participation at risk. These guidelines will continually evolve as new technologies and social networking tools emerge-so check back once in awhile to make sure you're up to date."

"With a growing number of pharma companies testing the waters of social media, an intrepid few have tried to keep track of every site, YouTube video, Twitterer, Facebook page, and so on. It's become a daunting task and no one list seems to have it all, so we created the Pharma and Healthcare Social Media Wiki"

6 basic steps toward creating a successful Twestival.

the premium water company has created a series of print ads to ride on its viral video success.

The new grayscale Nike ad captured a sorry-looking Tiger while the "ghost" of his father, Earl spoke to him. Nonetheless, the simplicity of the ad created a massive potential for parodies!

Everyone likes to receive comments on their blog, it helps to grow a community and makes you feel special as a blog owner to hear from the people who read your posts. I created the CommentLuv wordpress plugin to help give something back to every single commentator as well as entice them to come back and visit more often by automatically adding a titled link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. It's done fantastically well with tens of thousands of comments every day receiving a little luv.

Chinese social networking giant Renren has teamed up with China Merchants Bank in creating a co-branded Renren CMB credit card "with social features."

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Google Noticeboard. It's a Firefox add-on can be used to create a message - including a voice recording and some text - which you can then send to other members, even if the other members doesn't installed Noticeboard you can still as audio as OGG email attachment.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, previously General Image Manipulation Program) is a free software, raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It is often used as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone.

The Google Docs developers just added "insert drawing" capability. Drawing can be created easily with pre-determined shapes, colors, text, etc..

To honor brands that took the lead in creating presence on Facebook, The Big Money (TBM) came up with its list of the top 50 best Facebook pages.

This article is all about Blogging communities and it's utilization. These communities are very important for each and every blogger to create a communication with other bloggers in blogosphere. Besides other website owners can also use these to get traffic as well as backlinks. What is blogging community? Blogging community is a meeting place for the bloggers. Blogger's from every corner of the world join these communities and share their blogs as well as blog article's with each other. Blogging communities works as central point of blogosphere.