This week on Get Real, The Real Estate Investing Show for the Rest of Us, the spotlight was turned to one of the hottest topics in popular culture, social networking. Twitter and Facebook have quickly become common lexicons in conversations throughout the US. With the explosion in their usage many businesses have found it hard to ignore the potential that lies in these online giants. Hosts Judson Voss and Allison McArthur shared tips for real estate investors to increase their ... Read More

Sterizon LLC, a leading wireless data collection and direct marketing solution provider, pleased to announce the release of its Social Media Marketing product wiTweet. wiTweet enables businesses to tap into Social Media Marketing by getting their customers to follow the business on Twitter. Customer’s signup to follow the business on Twitter using Sterizon’s flagship product Sterizon wiZit – a portable, wireless, handheld WiFi device while they are at the place of business. ... Read More

Online ad network Chitika this week broke down over 123 million impressions across their 60,000+ publisher network and determined that the overwhelming dominance of search engines is facing little, if any, threat from social networks. Despite predictions that social media will replace search engines as Internet users’ primary method of finding information online, a breakdown of the numbers shows that isn’t the case. For charts and supporting data visit: ... Read More

GoldenNetworking.com celebrated its nine-month anniversary in style, with the participation of Chinese executives, businessmen, professionals and entrepreneurs, during its first ever China Happy Hour, past Monday, at Johnny Utah’s. Pictures of this reception (and many others) can be found on GoldenNetworking.com’s website. China Happy Hour attracted professionals from companies as diverse as Apparel Resources, Buckingham Hotel, Carriage Hill Partners, Deutsche Bank, GMAC Real ... Read More

NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that DEN (DEN Networks Limited), a leading Indian digital cable TV operator, has launched two innovative services on the NDS MediaHighway® platform. DEN has recently launched an interactive TV micro blogging application, Blog.telly, after the launch of its 24×7 music service in January of this year. In partnership with NDS, DEN is delivering an appealing and ever-increasing combination of ... Read More

Businesses are scrambling to find the best way to utilize social media, while the United States federal government and DoD has been a leader in implementing social media initiatives. “New and emerging social media and Web 2.0 tools are revolutionizing the way we communicate with our Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen, their families, and the American people. These tools allow deployed forces to maintain close contact with loved ones, allow our recruiters to more easily reach their ... Read More

With Twitter being accessed from mobile devices to a greater extent than other social media, Twitter users also use social media more in such locations as cars, restaurants and restrooms, according to a survey conducted by Crowd Science (www.crowdscience.com) with its advanced research platform for online audience measurement. One-in-ten Twitter users (11%) admitted to accessing social media while driving during the preceding 30 days, compared with just 5% of other social media users. ... Read More

Orbius, Inc today announced the launch of Version 3 of its white label social website platform for small to mid-sized organizations. The Software as a Service (SaaS) based platform enables non-technical community managers to create, update, manage and govern organization and user content on an intuitive, fully hosted, ‘drag and drop’ Web 2.0 environment. Orbius removes the risk of launching a branded social network by providing governance capability not found in public social ... Read More

The following comments were delivered today by Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande, dean of Webster University’s School of Business & Technology, to introduce Twitter creator, co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey as the University’s “Success to Significance 2009 Person of the Year.” The event was presented by Webster’s School of Communications and School of Business & Technology. My favorite equation in mathematics is the original equation, one from which all ... Read More

TypePad (http://www.typepad.com), the premier blogging service, today announced an integration with the popular invoicing service, FreshBooks (http://freshbooks.com). The integration allows TypePad small business owners to take customer orders directly from their blog and automatically create FreshBooks estimates and invoices. The integration is powered by FormSpring (http://formspring.com), an online data collection and management application. FormSpring empowers customers to build ... Read More

A half day Marketing Seminar(http://www.best-net-marketing.com) will be hosted by award winning Abolt Process Service and Abolt Marketing (http://www.AboltProcessService.com) on September 30, 2009 in San Diego, California and via web conference for those unable to make it to San Diego. The event is entitled “Expanding the Reach of Marketing Through Social Networks *Working with Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook*” and will focus as its name implies on the various methods of social media ... Read More

RightNow (NASDAQ:RNOW) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of HiveLive, Inc., an enterprise-class social platform provider, under a definitive agreement previously announced on September 8, 2009. The acquisition combines RightNow’s on demand customer relationship management (CRM) solution with HiveLive’s innovative platform for customer support, engagement and loyalty, and ideation communities to help organizations maximize every opportunity to deliver great ... Read More

SmartWired today announced a new version of Dweeber (www.dweeber.com), the first social networking site for student homework collaboration. Based on positive response from teachers and the need for education technology in the classroom, Dweeber enables students to solve problems together, participate in virtual study sessions, and work with friends in a number of ways. The collaborative whiteboard can be used to solve math problems or to create joint drawings and diagrams. Most ... Read More

The popular Latin American social networking platform www.sonico.com offers its over 40 million registered users a safe and fun environment to connect and stay in touch with real-life friends, colleagues, and family. The partnership with GlobalCollect enables Sonico to process international online credit card payments via Visa, MasterCard, and American Express for its premium subscription services. Future plans entail expanding the range of payment methods to include local and ... Read More

WorldFriends, one of the world’s leading international social networking services, today announced that it has launched the WorldFriends Facebook application. The WorldFriends application enables any Facebook user to find new friends with common interests from WorldFriends’ more than 2 million registered members from 200+ different countries including 140,000 language teachers, browse more than 1 million photos uploaded by members, and share travel advice and tips. With the recent ... Read More