Jeff Korhan - New Media and Small Business Marketing Home About Me Working With Me Speaking Favorites Trends Subscribe « Facebook Applications Dashboard | Main | Stop Following Instructions and Explore » October 10, 2010 Facebook Groups Simplified Last week Facebook launched three new enhancements.  You can now Back-up Your Faceboo k Information, monitor your applications from the New Applications Dashboard , and create New Groups with enhanced functionality.  This post will complete this trifecta by giving you my perspective on the new groups. MORE >>

I spend a lot of time in LinkedIn groups and have learned a bit about maximizing their potential as conversation-starters. For example, instead of posting a headline and a link to an article about cloud security, formulate it into a question: “This article on Cloud Computing Path makes the case that the recent Dropbox security breach proves that the cloud is not yet secure enough for the enterprise. When you contribute something interesting to the group, people will want to find out more about you. Use Active Voice. Here are 15 of my favorite tips. Ask Questions. MORE >>

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While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. No, testing and analytics won’t eliminate old-school focus groups altogether, but now that marketers have access to a lot of rich real-time data and insight into their products and marketing efforts already available to them, it’s much easier, scalable and more cost-effective. So how are websites replicating—and advancing—the traditional focus group? They’re leveraging social media and loyalty data. MORE >>

LinkedIn Group feature is a prime example of how. More importantly however are the reasons why this Groups feature is so great. After reading LinkedIn Takes Groups To The Next Level, I thought I’d highlight and simplify it’s improved features. Follow feature allows you to receive email alerts so when select members of a group participate you can start to follow them. LinkedIn will begin to highlight active group participants as “top influencers,” so the most active in a group will influence more participation from other members. MORE >>