As many businesses are now trying out Facebook as a new communication and marketing channel few realize that being banned from Facebook is not that hard.

Follow the basic steps below to create a Facebook Page for your business.

One of the fundamental rules of blogging is to keep on subject. My subject would be best described as “Communications Technology for Business”.

The words “drive them to your website” may soon become obsolete as social media online marketing platforms and interactive websites continue to increase in popularity.

These days, Facebook has become a part of our daily conversation. Those who aren’t on Facebook are met with incredulous looks.

Giapo, in support of World Malaria Day decided to donate all revenue earned between 3pm and 4pm on the 25th of April 2010 to UNICEF NZ.

Facebook Summarized In A Diagram.

Yesterday, Sunday the 21st March was Twitters 4th Birthday. Last month Twitter hit 50 million tweets a day and Twitter as a word is to be accepted into the Collins English Dictionary. When was it you first heard about Twitter? I suspect for most it was within the last year.

This post is for all the businesses out there that have heard of “Social Media” but have no understanding of what it is, how to use it and most importantly how much it is going to cost.

Did you know almost 70% of all social media accounts (LinkedIn/Twitter/Facebook/YouTube) are inactive due to lack of followers, fans, updates, tweets or posts?

I thought I would give you all a heads up on the new connections function that now allows you to sort your connections by tags in up to 200 different ways!

Just a bit of advice for all of you using facebook or any social network. If you have a facebook (fan)page for your business make sure you direct your fans to signup to your email newsletter or something else that gets them in a database that you own and control.

I was speaking with a business owner recently about a number of topics and we got round to marketing and then on to Twitter.

Engaging social networks & other ‘free’ technologies costs time & effort. What are some ways to make a financial return from these tools?

The “commercialisation of social networking” is the next wave and while many brands and businesses are dedicating time and resource to Business profiles on Facebook, Twitter etc; there is a lack of activity and personality to a huge number of profiles.

I have just come back from a few days in Auckland presenting to business owners the results of our 12 month project using social media as a business marketing channel and networking “tool”.