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The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate, 2nd Edition
NEW Best Practices and Techniques for Growing Your Business with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn! Completely Updated!
Whatever your business or organizational goals, this book will help you use social networking to achieve them. Renowned social networking innovator Clara Shih brings together powerful new insights, best practices, and easy-to-use "To Do" lists packed with proven solutions from real-world case studies.
Articles
- Configuration of Frame Mode MPLS
- This chapter covers the background and configuration of frame mode Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
- Q & A with the Authors of "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook"
- Matthew Helmke talks to the authors of UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook about their new book, interacting with readers, and whether after 4 editions they consider themselves sysadmins or authors.
- Using Ubuntu on the Desktop
- This chapter helps you get started with GNOME, Ubuntu's default desktop, and shows how you can use it to do the normal things you face every day with your computer — and a few not-so-normal things.
- A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum: Distributed Daily Scrum Meetings
- This chapter talks about how to answer the three Daily Scrum questions and provides some tested techniques for conducting effective Daily Scrum meetings with distributed teams.
- Configuring the Cisco Unified Personal Communicator
- This chapter covers the client installation, configuration, basic and advanced features, and client-side troubleshooting of the Cisco Unified Personal Communicator.
- Eleven Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets for IT Professionals
- Eric Geier discusses eleven different Gadgets that help you stay-up-to-date with your social networks and email, view system stats, and save time with shortcuts and tools.
- The Promise of PowerPivot in Excel 2010
- This chapter walks you through one process of building a PowerPivot report in Excel 2010. You will learn how simple it is to merge data from two sources in a single PowerPivot pivot table.
- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 23: IBM Tool Development, the Academic Advisory Board, and the Speak Out Article
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 23, Humphrey discusses the quest for high quality code, the reason for bringing on an academic advisory board at IBM, and the to-do surrounding his article on Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program.
- Web Graphics, Part 3: WebGL
- In the final installment of his series on modern web graphics, David Chisnall considers a very new standard, WebGL, which enables rich 3D graphics in a web browser.
- Cool Things You Can Do with a USB Flash Drive
- Flash drives aren't just great for storing and transferring your files. They can come in handy in many other ways, too. Eric Geier shows you five other cool things you can do with them.
Podcasts
Audience, Relevance, and Search: Aggregation and Creation - Part 2 of 4- Companies can take many approaches to aggregating social content. Some might be more effective than others.
- Audience, Relevance, and Search: Creation vs. Curation - Part 1 of 4
- Companies around the Web are struggling to present the content their users seek from the social sphere. Here we want to help companies create better aggregation user experiences.
- Audience, Relevance, and Search: Curation Best Practices - Part 3 of 4
- Here we identify some common practices that help make curated experiences better.
- Audience, Relevance, and Search: Limits of Curation Strategy - Part 4 of 4
- Curation cannot replace creation in all environments. Its application is limited to certain use cases. Here we outline some use cases where the only reasonable approach is creation.
- Interview with Authors of Cisco ASA
- The authors discuss their book and the basic mechanics of the Cisco ASA security appliance.
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Blogs
- The Microsoft IT Showcase
I had dinner in Seattle (three words: bacon-wrapped-steak) with the folks that put on "How Microsoft Does IT" (get it? Does "it", "IT"? OK, I'm easily amused) and I wanted to point out this fantastic resource to you - again
- The TechNet Wiki and Updated Security Checklists
You're probably familiar with a Wiki - a document set that anyone can edit. Did you know TechNet (Microsoft's source for technical professionals) has one? And did you know there are lots of folks keeping it up to date?
- Exploration and Understanding
As most of you know, I tend to spend a little time on social networks like Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn. On one of those networks, Ken Simmons sent the following thought: “One hour sessions give you great ideas you can explore; full day sessions give you in depth knowledge you can use.” He was talking about the difference in a one-hour session and an all-day event at the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) summit.
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