To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet.

Half of the team that founded Etsy, along with a former Etsy and Amazon.com product manager, have quietly launched a new startup. Postling is a centralized platform for small businesses to publish to the social Web.

What follows are 10 examples of how New Hampshire businesses and organizations of varying shapes, sizes, and industries use social media platforms to advance their objectives. While new national and international examples are cited in Herman's class (as well as everywhere you turn in mainstream traditional and online media), fellow business owners and passionate professionals are experimenting and succeeding right in our own backyard, and results are rolling in.

Although the information presented in this session was valuable, I would have rather visited the LinkedIn Learning Center and/or the Facebook “About” page to learn more about these topics. Having someone try and walk me through basics and setup steps via PowerPoint is just painful for me. If it’s helpful to you, then maybe you’ll enjoy this one.

Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook (Facebook)’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions. Facebook’s userbase, as a whole, is getting much older very fast.

Facebook provides users with the opportunity to share just about everything: photos, links, videos, virtual gifts and random musings in the form of status updates. Under the guise of “being social” and “maintaining transparency,” Facebook (Facebook) fiends post anything and everything about themselves on this now omnipresent social network.

It will take you under ten minutes to tailor Facebook’s privacy settings to your personal and professional needs. Yet Facebook estimates that only twenty percent of its members use the privacy settings at all. This post describes the essential steps you can take on Facebook to protect your identity, your privacy, and your reputation online.

To help businesspeople (and even PR firms), navigate the potential of Facebook, two respected organizations have recently published free ebooks.

Everyday I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a num ...

David Spark recounts 12 great tales of social network defriending on sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

FireStatus is a Firefox 3 extension that allows you to send status updates, notes and URL links simultaneously to multiple social networks and services, like Twitter, FaceBook and FriendFeed. It also displays updates from these services in notification popups, for a more "live" communication with your friends.

"I’ve written before about Serena Software’s use of Facebook as their Intranet..."

In a recent interview on the Today Show, Mark Zuckerberg — the young founder of Facebook — observed that the single most distinctive feature of his revolutionary social networking site was its capacity to let users control various degrees of privacy.... Turns out, the very perception of what is public versus what is private is a fundamentally generational conceit. It is also, as it happens, a visual one....