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Facebook is always looking for ways to change things up and make the social network more interesting to use. At their 2011 F8 developers conference in San Francisco, CA, they unveiled plans to completely overhaul the user profile. Called Facebook Timeline, the goal is to allow users to unearth and share interesting tidbits about their past.

Currently, user profiles focus on letting people share what they are doing in the present, with the status update section being the center of a user’s Facebook world. This section shows updates from all of the other people in the user’s social network and allows them to interact with those updates. But with the new Facebook Timeline, that feature will be drastically changed. The space for updates is truncated and once it leaves your front page, it will probably never be seen again.

Social media has changed the way we do business in the new millennium. In order to stay competitive, you must come up with unique ways to capture the attention of your target market. Here are ten ideas for using social networking sites to engage customers and grow your business.1. Create a Cult of Personality – People follow people not corporations. Create a persona (like Mr. Clean) that would interact with customers on a personal level.
2. Tweet Trivia – Every day [...]

I just recently read that there was an email chain letter being sent around that told people Mars will loom in the sky Friday night (8/27/10) and that we would be able to see it just like we are able to look lovingly at the moon every night. While that sounds awesome and all, the truth is, it’s a hoax. A Mars hoax.
Even though Mars is our neighbor in the solar system, their orbit around the sun ensures that we [...]