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HootSuite for iPhone and iPod touch is a free app that helps you spread messages, monitor conversations, and track results from your handset. The app that allows to manage all your social media profiles -in Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare and Linkedin- from a single interface.

Hootsuite is available for free from the Apple Store.

Pandora, the Internet radio service is extending its mobile presence to Windows Mobile devices, offering up their service to users of the HTC XV6900 and Motorola Q9C.

Pandora is your own Free personalized radio now available to stream music on your Windows Mobile handset. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it

if you’re already a Pandora user, you can login with your existing account information to start streaming your radio stations. If you’re not you can enter in the name of an artist or song to have Pandora start streaming music that you may like. Pandora will then adjust what’s played on your station based on the music you show a preference towards.

The Windows Mobile app is free. Point your mobile phone’s browser to pandora.com and get it.

Helpful Tips for Corporate Blogging

Blogs are massive resources of information from both inside and outside companies. Businessmen survive the world of blogging because they know how and where to  dig information while protecting their own secrets. Although blogging can be risky world for businesses, there are several helpful tips that can help bring success to corporate blogging.

The Important of Training

It is important to make sure the members of the communications team. In the past, this team was composed of a small group. However, with the advent of blogging, everyone who blogs at the company is
spreading a specific message about the company. People who handle the blogging for the company must be trained to avoid any spill of unnecessary information.

If by accident, important information regarding the company has been disclosed, this can put the company under the watchful eyes of the regulators. More so, inappropriate leaks can provide competitors with leverage and may lead to embarrassing revelations about the inner workings of the company and its staff. Although the usual action to be taken is to restrict employees from blogging, this can be a shortsighted
decision. Bloggers from within the company can easily relate and make contact with potential clients and
even enhance the brand of the company.

The Fake Blogs

Several, if not all, companies are eager to establish one-on-one links with their consumers, though they are often hesitant to venture in the world of blogging. As a result, they set up fake blogs. Fake blogs are those that are created by marketing departments of the company in order to promote a product, brand or
service using a fake name or character.

These kinds of blogs are risky since several bloggers who are passionate about what they do view them as an insult to the blogging community and no one can deny the fact that these blogs are very visible to the public. Although there are no rules prohibiting a company from making pseudo-blogs, the subject of creating one is always welcome. Always keep in mind that you can choose to create fake blogs but remember all the risks involved.

Blog Tracking

Tracking blogs is one of the easiest and most important tips to remember. Firstly, the company can
look around online and search for the most influential blogger who writes about their products or services.
Remember to read the blogger’s updates everyday and perform an automated tracking of discussions.

Tracking blogs is important because even those postings from small-time bloggers can be selected by
search engines, strengthened by a well-known blogger and ultimately hit the mainstream.

The Public Relations

Blogs have the ability to break down barriers between the company and its customers. It is important for
businesses to take that into consideration and adjust.There are several companies that start blog in order to attain customer loyalty and address the customers’concerns and comments. Relating to the customers is a vital factor in the survival of a business. Knowing what the customers think about the products or services can help enhance the company’s services.

The Company’s Secrets

Take into consideration one secret or secrets that you have kept at your company. Be it a list of projects
for the following year or information about scandalous activities, there are several things that you must
learn no to leak to your competitors.

In blogging, there is a certainty that you must rethink about something that you are trying to avoid,
for that fact that other companies are increasingly sharing information to win new partners and generate
new ideas. Although this does not mean that they are not keeping any secrets from you or that you must not keep any from them, it is important to reevaluate whether you can gain more out of sharing details than keep them to yourself.

Hootsuite is a web app that allows to manage multiple social profiles and accounts in the major social networks -Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare and Linkedin- from a single dashboard.

How does Hootsuite work?

This first tutorial show you how to set up an account with Hootsuite to manage all your Twitter and social media accounts. The second video show you how to manage Facebook fan pages with Hootsuite.

Greenfield Online is the premiere online web survey company on the Internet. They invite members to take surveys relating to movies, products, sports, food and more. Members are given a Bi-Weekly sweeptakes entry and several surveys are offered that have cash payments as well. They”ve paid out over $4,000,000 USD to date.

Since 1994, Greenfield Online has been providing consumers with the ability to voice their opinions by participating in online research surveys and focus groups. The Greenfield Online team relies on the opinions and thoughts of their community members.A marketing research survey is the way major companies gather, analyze, and report information to be used to change the products and services we use everyday. As one of the oldest online market research panels, Greenfield Online established their community of members (panel) in 1994, becoming the immediate leader in online research within the marketing research community.

Now you can partipate in paid surveys. GreenField Online offers unlimited Free Membership. Members have opportunities to earch money. In addition you will receive a welcome gift: 3 magazines of your choice for 3 months.

This unique free opportunity is highly recommended. Get your free membership here.

Currently, Greenfield Online only accept members from US and Canada.

Boxee for iPad gives you one place to discover, watch, and share video from the web and your computer. Boxee is a free media center software that comes with thousands of TV Show episodes available from the Internet.

The new Boxee app allows you send videos straight to your TV via a Boxee Box and streams videos from your PC/Mac to your iPad over WiFi. In addition, Boxee automatically delivers new videos your friends share on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr directly to your iPad.
The new, free iPad app is accompanied by the Boxee Media Manager (for streaming videos from your computer to the iPad), a new Watch Later bookmarklet and new firmware for the Boxee Box (version 1.2)
Download Boxee for iPad from iTunes

Second part of the series of videos, created by Gareth Davies, about useful techniques to use on Google for SEO.

Lesson 5: Google Cache Command



Lesson 5: Google All in Title Command



Lessons 6: Title Tags

Zoho is an integrated portfolio of rich online applications for businesses. With more than 20 different applications spanning Collaboration, Business and Productivity applications, Zoho helps businesses and organizations get work done.

Zoho web-based Office Suite contains word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and many other applications.

Zoho cloud applications are delivered over the internet, requiring nothing but a browser. This means you can focus on your business and rely on Zoho to maintain the servers and keep your data safe. Recently, Zoho integrated some of their applications with the Google Apps online suite. This enabled users to sign in to both suites under one login.

Zoho offers significant advantages to run your business online. This video provides a very high level view on where Zoho fits in.

Flipboard is a popular app that creates a cool magazine out of RSS feeds. Simply launch Flipboard and “flip” open the cover to get started to read your favorite websites in magazine format. From the Table of Contents readers can view their sections and personalize the magazine.

In addtion, the Facebook and Twitter sections let readers quickly flip through the latest stories, photos and updates from your friends and trusted sources.

Flipboard is now available for Android devices. Download Flipboard App for Free (.APK).

SJphone® is a Free VOIP softphone that allows you to speak with any other softphone running on a PC/PDA, any stand-alone IP-phone, or using Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) with any traditional wired or mobile phone. It supports SIP and is fully inter-operable with most major VOIP vendors and ITSPs.

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