Shhhhh! 10 Social Media Secrets for Marketing to Women

Also today wanted to share a link to some gender specific factoids/statistics from one of Anderson Analytics recent social media studies as well as the 10 tips below which came out of the group discussion with myself and,

For those of you who missed the expert social media panel on marketing to women on Tuesday, I have updated yesterdays post with a link to the recording. Read more at www.tomhcanderson.com

15 Awesome Google Services You Never Knew Existed

Never miss another important headline

Patent your invention

Let’s get political, political

You’ve got questions? They’ve got the answers

Explore the world on foot

See politics in motion

Learn HTML all over again

Find exactly what you’re looking for

Watch as your image search dances around you

Peruse news on the web a dozen pages at a time

Refine your bibliography

Find the best deals

Discover what’s trending on the web

Trace the genealogy of your friendships

Meet some new people Read more at www.maclife.com

Keep New Members Hooked For 21 Days

It takes 21 days for something to become a habit. If you can keep new members engaged for their first 21 days, they’re hooked.

Early Achievements.

Newcomer of the month award

Buddy System:

Newbie Rituals.

Weekly Newcomer List.

Introduce new members to groups.

A topical primer.

Assign a role.

Have a graduation. Read more at www.feverbee.com

8 Simple Steps to Growing a Quality Twitter Following

Step 1:  Choose Your Preferred Audience

Step 2:  Decide How Many Tweets You Want to Send Daily

Step 3:  Decide How Long You Want to Make Your Tweet Plan

Step 4: Find the Keywords You Want to Use on Twitter

Step 5: Choose Different Formats for Your Scheduled Tweets

Step 6: Write Your Timeless Tweets

Step 7: Choose Your Times

Step 8: Schedule Your Tweets

Although a tweet plan is useful when your schedule gets busy, it’s not a way to avoid real-time tweeting.  The tweet plan’s main advantage is to maintain brand awareness consistently and attract the people you want to meet on Twitter.

You must find a balance to make this work for your business.  And you can only find this balance by jumping in, listening to your audience and tweaking the content you share on Twitter to get the best results. Read more at www.socialmediaexaminer.com

To iPad or Not, That is the Question! Apple Reveals it Finally!

It’s official. Apple announced their tablet device today and it’s called the

iPad

The iPad will have

iBook – ereader

iWork for iPad – downloadable apps priced at $9.99 each (pages, keynote, Numbers)

Let’s talk about prices of the service. $29 per month for unlimited 3G and $14.99 for up to 250 mb per month. AT&T is offering wifi hotspots for free.

Starts at $499 for the 16 GB wifi up to $820 for the 64 GB wi+3G.

wifi is 16 GB – $499, 32 GB – $599, 64 GB – $699

wifi + 3G is 16 GB – $629, 32 GB – $729, 64 GB – $829

I like how real many of the things look. For example, the iBook software looks like a bookshelf with books on it. When you read a book, it looks like a real book and you can see the pages behind even. Apple always takes the time to add little things that make the whole user experience exceptional and very real.

Will you get an iPad? What are your thoughts? Read more at scrapsofmygeeklife.com

6 Really Good Sites with FREE Video Lectures from Top US Colleges

Watching free video lectures is easier to do than you might think. All around the world top-tier universities are offering videos of entire college courses for free.

The OpenCourseWare Consortium

MIT

Yale

UC Berkeley

Indexing Services

Boxee

Study Tips

You might feel silly sitting in front of your computer alone, taking notes, but trust me: you’ll learn better this way. Best of all, at the end of the course you’ll have created a useful resource for future reference; I constantly find myself refering to my college notes.

Let’s keep that spirit of bettering the world alive in the comments below. If you have any favorite places to access free university courses online, or any study tips to help make use of such resources, please share them so that we all can benefit. Read more at www.makeuseof.com