How To Power Up Your LinkedIn
Creating the optimum LinkedIn profile that has the best chances of attracting the interest and attention of potential employers and clients starts with setting up your profile, building your job and education history, and importing a flattering profile picture, but there is much more that can be done. After you’ve spent a good amount of time filling out your LinkedIn profile and are rewarded with the blue 100% complete status bar,...
13 Million Americans Clueless About Facebook Privacy
Consumer Reports (CR) published the results of a survey on May 3 that showed 13 million Facebook users in the U.S. either do not use or do not know about Facebook’s privacy settings. There are currently about 150 million Americans who have Facebook accounts. Consumer Report’s annual state of the net report detailed the results of the survey of 2002 households in the U.S. with online access, of which 1,340 had active Facebook...
Facebook Users Don’t Trust Facebook
A new poll carried out by the Associated Press (AP) and CNBC found that social networking giant Facebook has some steep challenges to overcome as it moves ever closer to becoming a public company this week. Facebook is expected to start trading on Friday. The AP-CNBC survey of 1,004 Facebook users, conducted between May 3 and May 7, found that 57 percent of Facebook users don’t click on sponsored content or ads and another 26 percent...
Facebook Addiction Test Published
A Facebook addiction test has finally been developed and published by researchers at the University of Bergen, in the journal Psychological Reports. The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, created by Psychology Professor Cecilia Schou Andreassen based on research with 423 students, deems a user addicted to Facebook if they answer “often” or “always” four or more times to six questions which must be answered with “very rarely”,...
CrowdCloud Finds What You Want…Where You Want It
CrowdCloud LLC, a subsidiary of digital media technology company Adiant, last month released the final version of its CrowdCloud app, which uses a patent pending technology to search social media and provide curated reports for users in the 41 U.S. cities it currently covers. Other Adiant brands include the Adblade Ad Network, OptiServe ad platform, CrowdCloud Mobile Community platform, and Mani Rewards. The CrowdCloud app,...