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Linkedin is all about making business connections, displaying your resume online, getting recommendations, finding jobs, getting help for your business from field experts and furthering your business. It is an organically growing network of professionals worldwide. There are many ways in which you can benefit from Linkedin if you only familiarize yourself with all of its features. Every user can view the profiles of the immediate connections (called first degree connections) and the people connected with his first degree contacts. Every user can view up to third degree connections. This provides a kind of ‘gated access’ to other business contacts which is aimed at developing trusted relationships.

With 90 million users spread over 200 countries, Linkedin is a hotbed of global job and business opportunities, that you should take advantage of. With a tagline that says ‘Relationships Matter’, the ultimate aim of Linkedin as a website, is to attract professionals worldwide and make it a global business platform. There is news of Linkedin planning to go public in 2011. In the following lines, I share some simple tips for using Linkedin for business or to find a job.

How to Use Linkedin Effectively?

Business networking has been considerably simplified by sites like Linkedin. By bringing job seekers and job offering companies on the same platform, it has made it easier to spot talent and increased the visibility of professionals in any specialized field. Here are some tips for using Linkedin to find jobs and further your business.

Develop a Classy Profile
One of the keys to increasing your visibility on Linkedin and ensuring that your profile ranks on Google search is to create a detailed and classy profile. List your educational background details, your job history and also your list of achievements. Put up your best confidant looking picture on the profile, which can make a good first impression. Such a detailed profile makes it easier for job offering companies to check you out, providing more job openings, as well as business opportunities.

Connect With Professionals From Your Field
Avoid adding anybody and everybody on Linkedin that you may know, by spamming invitations. It’s not about how many connections you make, it’s about how many connections you make in your professional field. It automatically creates a connection pool of people working in your field, which you can tap for your business benefit or job search. You might want to check out some more tips on how to use Linkedin for business.

Recommend & Get Recommended
One of the biggest advantages of having a Linkedin profile is the ‘Recommendations’ feature. Using this feature, professionals you worked with and colleagues can recommend you and vouch for you. To get recommendations, it’s a good idea to start recommending other people, who are bound to reciprocate the gesture. Good recommendations from your previous bosses and colleagues makes an impression of prospective employers when they check out your profile. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter was launched in July, 2006 by Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams as a microblogging site, with the idea of creating the ‘SMS of the Internet’. Before venturing into a discussion about its monetization, let me briefly explain how does Twitter work. It is designed as a microblogging and social networking site with a difference. Every short message (with a maximum length of 140 characters) published by a Twitter user is known as a ‘Tweet’ and it’s broadcasted to all users or a limited number of users (called followers). Every message can be republished or ‘Retweeted’ by any user.

All the tweets are searchable on the website and now they even feature in search results of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Twitter has truly triggered a microblogging revolution of sorts and is fast gaining popularity as a platform to voice your opinions to the world. Despite of having 65 million tweets generated per day and approximately 190 million users today, Twitter’s monetization plans started only recently, since 2010. Let us see how does Twitter make money by enabling users to transmit their thoughts world over like an Internet SMS.

How Does Twitter Earn Money?

Twitter has finally launched its revenue generating model and businesses can leverage the power granted by this microblogging site to promote their products through advertising on Twitter. Here are two primary ways in which Twitter is currently generating revenue.

Twitter Feeds on Google, Yahoo & Bing
One of the first revenue generating opportunities for Twitter was created through deals with Google, Yahoo and Bing, who bought the rights to display live Twitter feeds in their web search results. Twitter earned millions of dollars in revenue by selling the rights to publish live tweets on any trending topic. It’s a win-win deal, as it brings more users to Twitter and provides search engine users with live data.

Promoted Tweets, Promoted Trends & Promoted Accounts
The major revenue generating model for Twitter now is its ‘Promoted Tweets’ advertising model. Advertisers pay for promoting Tweets related to their product. Any search query related to the advertiser’s product will be listed at the top of the search results. Also the name of the company promoting the Tweet is displayed below it.

Then there is the related concept of ‘Promoted Trends’, where the advertiser’s product related trends are prominently featured on the website. Twitter has also created ‘Promoted Accounts’ for advertisers, which will be shown in the ‘Suggestions for you’ section, presented for Twitter users to follow. This advertising model is expected to increase Twitter’s revenues to up to $125 million in 2011. Companies like Coca Cola, Disney and Starbucks have already made deals with Twitter for promoting their products. Check out some more of these Buzzle articles related to Twitter. •Twitter Marketing Strategy for Business Read the rest of this entry »

Now there are many other things you can do along with hiding comments such as: •Hide Some Comments•Hide “All Comments” Link•Hide # of Comments•Hide Comments Title•Hide Comments Date & Time•Hide “Comment Back” LinksAnd depending on what you’re searching for, specific codes have to be applied. So let’s get to each of these one by one and see how to hide comments on MySpace.
Code #1 – Hide CommentsLog on to your MySpace 1.0 account by entering your email id and password. Once the profile page is up, go to “Edit Profile”, and in your “I’d Like to Meet” section to copy paste the following code. Select “Preview” to see if the table is what you wanted it to look like. And in the end, click “Save”.
<style type=”text/css”>.friendsComments {display:none;}</style> Read the rest of this entry »

The more expensive or complex the product, the more research is required and the more shoppers will benefit from hearing detailed accounts of those who have purchased the product in the past. Sometimes there are numerous reviews on a given product available through respected sites like Amazon or through review services like Yelp or TripAdvisor. In some cases, however, it is best to search for forums where a given product is discussed. High end gadgetry and electronics are almost always discussed in great detail in related forums.

Unlike retail websites where simple reviews may reside, forums allow for fluid discussion about a variety of issues related to a given product and can provide much greater insight for prospective buyers. In addition to more detailed information and interactive conversations, forums also offer at least the possibility that a buyer can gauge the credibility of those in the conversation. Forums typically require posters to create an account with their service and post under a user name that will track how many posts they’ve made on the forum and their status within the forum, which is often tied to the number of posts made.

In this manner, those researching buying decisions can get a feel for the level of authority they can assign to the comments and information provided in forum posts. While this is certainly not fail-safe, it only takes a little time before you become comfortable determining which forums and individual posters are likely to be offering you the more credible information.

Ironically, sometimes the most valuable information can be obtained by reading the forum posts of individuals who were not happy with a product you are researching. Obviously, if a post is able to dissuade you from making the purchase based on the information it provides, then there is a direct benefit. But I often find myself confirming a purchase decision based on the negative experiences of forum posters. This is not to say that I discount the information they’ve provided, it’s just that the problems they cite will sometimes serve to reinforce my suspicions about a given product and how I intend to use it. If a product offers features that I don’t necessarily want or need and a forum user’s problems lie solely in those features, then I know that I’m on the right track. Especially if a product is priced lower because of shortcomings in areas that are of no consequence to me. Read the rest of this entry »

The GDP definition is quite simple. A GDP figure is the total of the monetary worth of goods and services that have been produced within the said nation, within one accounting. In this definition it must be noted that the value of goods is the market value. There are several more constituents such as government spending, constructed projects and such other monetary values that are included in the final figure. The word ‘gross’ indicates that there are no tax deductions and depreciation deductions that are included in the GDP computation. There is some academic dispute regarding the inclusion of certain goods and services in the GDP and hence, no GDP can be precise. Existence of black markets, tax evasions, money laundering, illegal and unethical sales makes the computation of the final figure difficult. The GDP is usually expressed in terms of U.S. Dollars for the sake of comparison and convenience.

There are two common formulas or methods that are used for computation of the GDP.
•Expenditure Approach: The expenditure approach is where the all the resources and money that have been spent are totaled up. The general formula for this approach goes as: private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports – imports).
•Income Approach: The income method is the exact opposite and goes as rents + interests + profits + statistical adjustments + wages.
Though the GDP indicates to the performance of the nation’s economy, it does not give a true picture of the economy and also of society. A better indicator of the nation’s over all economy is thus the GDP per capita.

GDP Per Capita: Definition

What is GDP Per Capita?, simple the nation’s GDP divided by the total population of the nation. The concept is quite similar to per capita income, only the GDP per capita by country solely points to the distribution of wealth generated from production processes within the nation’s borders, giving it the name, real GDP per capita. There are several concepts and connotations that are related to the GDP per capita. For example, the standard of living is often determined by the per capita GDP. The more the per capita GDP, the better is the standard of living. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) per capita is the spending capacity of the people, after excluding taxes, depreciation and other necessary expenditures. Read the rest of this entry »