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Time and time again, we’re warned of the importance of having strong, secure online passwords. Phishing scams — where legitimate looking e-mails and websites try to trick you into entering in your sensitive login information to a bank site, e-mail host or social network — are bad enough when a scammer is able to compromise [...]

While a personal profile can only get so much attention, a Facebook Fanpage allows you to expand your reach and your profile’s capabilities. While a business profile is ok, a fanpage for your company, business, service or product is the best approach on Facebook since a fanpage has significantly more options and is more flexible [...]

What happens when you mix male gamers, pretty girls, and a social platform where girls that connects the two for a price? The answer is GameCrush, which has just opened to the public. GameCrush first made headlines in March when it entered public beta. The site hooks up “Players” (mostly nerdy males) with “PlayDates” (mostly [...]

Harvard research director Carrie James took the stage at Mashable’s Social Good Summit earlier today to encourage us all to mentor young people on using social media for social good. The online behaviors of youth and how to improve and correct them are part of how James feels new media can be used to address [...]

While much of finding what works for your business on social media sites is a process of trial and error, recent stats from e-mail marketing firm ExactTarget (which recently acquired social CRM platform CoTweet) shed some light on how the Facebook population uses the site, and specifically, how it interacts with brands. First, the good [...]

It’s rare that you’ll see a well-rested, socially adjusted, and emotionally fulfilled individual publish rants to a blog or Twitter page. But if you take sleep, confidence, and satisfaction from the happiest of people you’ll quickly see sniveling, snapping beasts emerge. They’re not evil. Just fatigued. Unfortunately, “I was tired” won’t fix the damage caused [...]

Dan Klamm is the Outreach & Marketing Coordinator at Syracuse University Career Services. This post was co-authored by Kelly Lux who is the Social Media Manager at Syracuse University’s iSchool. Connect with them on Twitter @DanKlamm and @KellyLux. Location-based apps aren’t just for badges and discounts. Geolocation can have a real effect on education at [...]

Michael Bennett Cohn has a master’s degree in Cinema-Television from the University of Southern California. He also ran the online advertising campaign that launched the first-generation Amazon Kindle. The ability of memes to travel quickly through social media has created unprecedented possibilities for independent film. Even directors without access to major studio distribution and publicity [...]

The layout is clean and uncluttered; the daily image is rotated to provide an attractive background and landing page. Bing is aesthetically successful, but is it anywhere near perfect semantic search engine? The competition in this area is fierce especially after the Microsoft-Yahoo partnership has been approved. Regardless, Google is still the dominant player in [...]