So how important are Social Networks to women? According to 36% of women who participated in a recent research study; they would give up chocolate, their Pradas, or their Mother-in-Law before they gave up their Social Networks. We’re not so sure what that says about their Mother-in-Laws but brand managers for Prada and chocolate companies should pay attention! ShesConnected Multimedia, a Social Media Advertising Agency who also own and operate www.sheconnected.com a Social Network ... Read More

Those who have been waiting for a social network that is totally dedicated to students now have good news. Student Talk comes as a great gift for students that are interested in having high standard social utility website. Students Talk helps students from all over the world to interact with one another and spend time online with people who share the same interests. As of now, there is no social network site with all the latest features and tools that is totally dedicated to students. ... Read More

Poet Larry Jaffe has been using his art to promote human rights his entire career. As an official Ambassador for Youth for Human Rights as well as their Poet Laureate, Jaffe has been featured in poetry venues and festivals both throughout the U.S. and abroad. But in today’s “Brave New World” Jaffe is speaking for peace on Twitter, by tweeting each of the 30 articles of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 140 characters or less. Jaffe is excited about his poetry foray into ... Read More

NewsGator today cited strong momentum in the growing enterprise social computing market, reporting that over one million paid business users now take advantage of its Social Sites enterprise social computing solutions. Social Sites helps a wide range of organizations harness the value of social networking, but the financial services, pharma/biotech, professional services, high-tech, and aerospace and defense industries have been the strongest adopters of the technology. For example, ... Read More

Women’s Network Group held their mid-year annual conference in San Francisco and this year’s theme, “Growth in the Age of Social Networks,” attracted Internet, law and retail firms throughout the Bay Area. Julie Davis, Aon Corporation, was the luncheon keynote and she explored, with the audience, risks that social network firms face. Reports indicate that Facebook has over 225 million people, Twitter over 8.8 million and LinkedIn over 30.1 million. But the market ... Read More

Team Saxo Bank had another successful Tour de France with Fabian Cancellara winning the opening time trial stage as well as two other stage wins, and two riders in the top five in the overall competition rankings including a second place for Andy Schleck who also won the youth competition. This led to a high increase in online mentions, specifically on micro-blogging site Twitter. Saxo Bank, the team’s main sponsor and a consistent winner of industry awards itself, launched ... Read More

Twitter TV Live Network a 24-hour TV network headed by Carlton Enoch, CEO of Connection Films is producing the all new Twriddle Treasures game show to be played by Twitter users. Twriddle Treasures is an interactive game show that uses Twitter as the interface for the game. It gives tweeps worldwide the opportunity to compete for prizes based on their own intellectual genius in solving the Twriddles (riddles) that are posted daily by Twitter TV Live Network on Twitter.com. There are two ... Read More

The Parnassus Group, creators of the world’s first conference series dedicated to the professional uses of Twitter, announced that they will again host the popular “Developer Launchpad” session at their upcoming Twitter Conference in Los Angeles. “Promising new Twitter-based applications are appearing on a daily basis,” said Steve Broback, Founder of the Twitter Conference. “Our goal is to identify the most innovative and useful services based on the ... Read More

Companies should be utilising a hosted social network in order to reap the benefits of improved communication, both internally between employees and externally with their consumers according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of web community software for brands. An online community can be used to facilitate internal interaction and communication, in an environment where files can be shared and used with ease. A social network presents the possibility for internal horizontal ... Read More

Membership numbers of the business social networks are exploding. This is supported by a recent survey revealing that it is senior business decision-makers who are the dominant users of social media. The research was carried out in the US, but given the worldwide membership growth figures for the business, or professional, social networks, it is likely that these findings are also relevant for Europe. Key Facts • The 3 principal social networks used for business purposes are market ... Read More

EventMingle announced today it has added support for Twitter in their popular online social networking platform for the tradeshow industry. Twitter is a free social messaging utility and micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read messages known as Tweets. These Tweets are text based and limited to 140 characters each making it perfect for event participants to comment about the event. EventMingle is the first event-based social networking community to add support for ... Read More

The future of e-commerce is “social commerce” as online shoppers, particularly younger generations, are heavily influenced by social media and Web 2.0 technologies, according to a new “Future of Commerce” report from Hill & Knowlton. “Online retailing is being profoundly impacted by the integration of social media into what historically has been a transactional experience,” said Joshua Reynolds, worldwide technology practice director, Hill & ... Read More

The Sage LinkedIn Group, the largest Sage-related group on the popular business social network, today announced the launch of a new website for the group. The website was built by Hall Web Services, a Sage Preferred Vendor, who developed the site free of charge to help foster the growth of the community. The new site boasts a fresh and simple web design and is powered by Wordpress, an open-source blogging platform that allows for ease of management. “We were happy to work with the ... Read More

Gleedo™, the first ever livesharing application, expanded its open alpha program with the release of Gleedo for Windows Vista® and Windows® XP 64-bit operating systems. Gleedo is free and available for download at www.gleedo.com. Gleedo is free software that layers live social networking over users’ favorite media. With Gleedo, users may share Internet videos, web sites, photos and music with friends and family in real time, in a private online media room. Chat and talk features ... Read More

Amazee is an internet platform that empowers individuals and organizations to initiate and promote their ideas and plans in projects, to find like-minded people and raise funds. Amazee is the global action network! Examples of successful projects on Amazee are: Building an IT learning center in Sri Lanka, planning meetings of internet entrepreneurs in Zurich or ensuring the complete supply with running water in a small South African village. Amazee is built for globally-minded activists ... Read More