The hash tag (#), which was created by the Twitter community to help bring order to the service’s inherent chaos, has become one of the Internet’s most powerful organizing and amplification tools. Free Twitter clients like TweetDeck and HootSuite do a good job of catching mentions of your brand or products. Even if you only use it to disseminate press releases, it at least plants a flag in this increasingly critical community. The target publication date is late 2012. I’ll be posting a few excerpts here during the next few months and would appreciate your comments. MORE >>

It’s also a great way to grow your online community, and meet fellow colleagues in your industry. All you have to do is set up keyword searches via software such as  Hootsuite  or  Tweetdeck. One of the best ways businesses can use Twitter for client acquisition and brand development is by answering questions people ask relating to their service and/or product. The concept is simple. You can set up a number of searches based on your product and/or service. It’s important that you regularly check your accounts so you answer questions as soon as possible. WOW! . MORE >>

Awareness Networks, Social Marketing Hub an enterprise class community platform has launched their own tool that has Facebook, youtube, flickr, Twitter, and of course connect with their own community features. Expion Offers Social Media Management Software which includes monitoring multiple accounts, multiple channels and analysis tools as well as a services group. Spewing corporate content to every known social channel may make your life easier as a marketer, but could cause serious ramifications to the trust of your community. have spoken to many other vendors too. MORE >>

Google+ released the first set of public APIs to the development community on Friday. For those of you not familiar with API: An application programming interface (API) is a particular set of rules (‘code’) and specifications that  software programs can follow to communicate with each other. It serves as an  interface between different software programs and facilitates their interaction, similar to the way the  user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. This is hysterical. Well, the gods have spoken. Why is the release important? MORE >>

Software You might think that someone who makes a good five-figure income online each month has a ridiculous computer setup. like to think of a Web browser as the only tool that I need, but if truth be told, there really is some software that makes my life a little easier. Tweetdeck If you’re using Twitter in any way to build your personal brand or business, then Tweetdeck will help keep you organised. Not only does Tweetdeck keep things organised, but it also makes it very fast to message people and retweet good content. Home What the F ? No problem. MORE >>