If you thought the world’s largest professional network was little more than a place to post your resume, you owe yourself another visit. LinkedIn is set to eclipse the 100 million member mark sometime this spring, and it is quickly becoming the social network of choice for B2B professionals. For business pros in industries like communications, manufacturing, retailing, financial services and even construction, LinkedIn groups are becoming vertical social networks in their own right. InMaps lets you visualize your connection network. And they’re busy. MORE >>

So Google has launched its first foray into social networking with the launch of Google+. This may be somewhat of a conspiracy theory, but a few of us here at FreshNetworks were questioning whether Google+ is about social networking at all, or if it’s about something else…namely, changing the future of search engine marketing (SEM). Think about point number 2 of Google’s “10 things&# manifesto: ‘It’s best to do one thing really, really well. Post on Google Buzz. Or has it? We do search. MORE >>

Socialbakers released an infographic a while back, providing an overview of the social networks that are important for organizations in 2012. The infographic is based on data that look at how some major brands and media companies do on the big social networks, taking into account three different parameters. Blog Connected marketing Research Social media marketing Facebook Google+ Jan Rezab social networks socialbakers TwitterIn a blog post on [.]. MORE >>

The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. Later, several other websites such as Classmates.com and Friendster contributed to the development of social networking to help reach our present day scenario, where we see the domination of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Every product or service has a product life cycle, and despite the popularity of social networking in this day and age, even social network sites have a product life cycle scenario. MORE >>

Tweet Google+ Ripples is an app that sits natively within Google+, allowing anyone to see the reach and influence of a particular post in G+ once it has been shared. The magic of Google+ Ripples, however, is the ability to search out and target influencers. There are other levels to the Google+ Ripples tool though. For example, if you were a recruiter looking for android developers to work on a project you could use Google+ Ripples to find people talking about and sharing content about android development. Post on Google Buzz. Tweet This! MORE >>