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For the last several weeks JDResources has been reviewing the use of social media in business; Facebook, Myspace and Twitter to name a few. To be frank, I have been overwhelmed by the number of different, but similar, social media platforms available. This article is about the “blowout” that happens to many users of these online friend based platforms. To define “blowout” I will reference a very close friend’s comments about Facebook; “…I started thinking about how much time I spend on Facebook each day and found that I was spending 4-5 hours doing nothing but Facebook stuff” she went on to say “after seeing that number I decided to delete my account. It was serving no good purpose and I was wasting some much time that I could have been doing something more important”. Read the rest of this entry »
One time or another most of us have needed to understand how to ‘do-it-yourself’ for some project that we decided to tackle. If you are like me, the first place you go is Google to search for answers. As a result what I find is a myriad of sites. I never make it past the first 3-4 pages before finding a site that supplies the information needed. The real question isn’t whether or not you will be able to find information about the topic you have selected, it’s whether or not you can find the information in a manner that works for you. That brings me to the topic of “Internet; Pros and Cons”.