www.livingfreeandwealthy.com Twitter and Facebook are fantastic platforms to leverage, but just make sure you’re using them the right way. Forget about adding 10000 people in 5 minutes, you need to be connecting with people, buildibg relationships. It’s no good having a follower or friend list of thousands of people if those people hardly know who [...]

What does it mean to Wave? How is crowdfunding revolutionizing the non-profit sector? What does it mean to make tangible impact? Since our 2009 trend report, Google Wave has turned the tech world on its head, Kiva revolutionized the non-profit business model and Kleiner Perkins is funding eco-innovation with the $500 million Green Fund. While [...]

Established charities, such as the American Red Cross (#1), PETA (#2) and Greenpeace (#4), dominate the top 50 digital influencers in social cause, according to the The Digital Influence in Social Cause Report. The new report was released today by digital agency, Sparxoo, to explore how non-profits are utilizing the web to increase brand visibility, [...]

Despite all the fears that the military using social media will pose a security threat to the nation, more and more experts are beginning to believe that not using them will be worse than using them. The main reason these people believe this is because it is the new media. There are so many more [...]

If you have ever wondered about those people on Twitter with thousands of followers and thought they must be doing something out of the ordinary to get so many people following them, then you are going to find my technique really cool, especially when I reveal to you the secret to getting lots of followers [...]

Charitable giving has been on the decline since the onset of the recession. Total US gifts and pledges decreased 5.7% on an inflation-adjusted basis to $308 billion in 2008 according to Giving USA Foundation. More than half of charities are experiencing a downturn in contributions so far this year compared to the same time in [...]

An often vastly under estimated method of affiliate marketing is by using the power of Twitter. This  method can be extremely effective and it shouldn’t take you to much time to start to see the affiliate commissions mounting up. You should start by looking for other people in your niche and start following them and [...]

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth recently conducted one of the first statistically significant studies on the usage of social media in corporations. The study compares the adoption of social media with a list of the fastest-growing U.S. companies assembled by Inc. Magazine – a leading business magazine headquartered in New York City. The 2009 results [...]

According to foreign media report today, Yahoo said it is testing a new search capabilities to users of other Internet users real-time sharing of relevant information. Informed sources said that Yahoo is working with Web search start-ups OneRiot and other companies to test real-time search results. Carried out in collaboration with the OneRiot tests will [...]

Twitter has struggled for a long time to find a profitable business model. The wait is finally over and the microblogging site has turned a profit. Twitter will make search deals with Google and Microsoft’s Bing for $25 million.  The deal will make tweets searchable by both search engines — Google will generate approximately $15 [...]