If you’re avid socializer on Facebook, you realize how onerous the birthday wishes can become on someone’s wall! And, of course, our friends send us an en masse thank you for all those wishes!

With all those wall posts for everyone’s birthdays, Facebook started by moving the Birthdays lower on the page and behind “see more”. But, today, Facebook just tested a new format for birthday wall postings which helps keep it organized instead of overrunning our Home pages.

Want to learn more, read the inside report Facebook Tests New Birthday Wall Post Feed Story

This is a women’s networking event that I thought you’d want to know about.

If you’re looking for some ways to maximize your use of social media, you’ll find this networking event and workshop helpful.  We’ve aptly called the workshop,  Social Media and Marketing Your Business and its’ being sponsored by a fabulous women’s organization called WRIB.

Bring your laptop or bring a friend who has a laptop so you can share this experience because it’s a hands-on workshop!  Also, if you have an internet stick, bring that with you as well.   There’ll be WiFi at the location but you’ll love having the faster internet stick connection.  Finally, mark your calendars  for Monday, August 23rd, 2010 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm to be at Whistler’s Bar & Grill’s, Banquet Hall upstairs.  Yes, we have a fabulous banquet hall setting for this event!

If you haven’t guessed already, I’ll be presenting at the workshop.  This is my way of donating time to help women business owners in our community to more effectively use LinkedIn, Facebook Fan Pages and Twitter to market their business.

As you know, I’ve been in the marketing industry for over 30 years now and in my own internet business for over 13 years so I believe you’ll find that you’ll walk away with something during this evening including a few delicious appetizers in your belly on top of meeting many other fabulous business women along the way!

By the way, here’s a little bonus for you on how Women are Shaping the Internet if you need a few statistics on women’s participation on the internet.

Register today because we’re going to help you get a kick start on the new season ahead!

Since the social media craze has started, I see sales managers adamantly encouraging sales people to get out there and meet people. So, online marketing is just one of many channels to improve your lead generation capabilities. It’s definitely a channel that helps create a lot of visibility, but let’s take a look at how some of the best online firms help us create even more business by combining both traditional business networking with social networking:

http://watch.bnn.ca/midday-markets/may-2010/midday-markets-may-17-2010/#clip302890

And, in addition, if you’re a sales manager, there are great ways to leverage social networking while getting your sales people out there in front of people. After all, it all works in combination with each other. And, if you’re not understanding how this might work, ask us at Yenius Interactive Marketing, for a complimentary session to find out how Outsourcing Internet Marketing / Social Media activities can help you build an alternate lead generation channel.

We’ll show you how active real time connections help you develop your online marketing funnel exponentially.

Even social media works much better when you connect with more people in real life.

A good portion of the website traffic generated these days comes from social networking.  As a business owner, now is the time to take advantage of this traffic.

As with all important internet innovations, the best time to take advantage of the benefits is at the earlier stages of the innovation.  So, now, is the time to take a look at how to leverage this changing internet landscape.  At the end of the innovation, we’re only playing catch up to everyone else.

So, what do we do?

Well, what we do is based on the benefits of this innovation.  There are many benefits of social networking.  For one, you can use it to build up your relationships with new and different people out there on the internet.  This is the same as traditional networking – it’s all about relationship building.

Next, you can create a system with your website / blog so you can generate more traffic to your website and increase your search engine rankings.  People still use searches and now, you can use your networking activities to also build up your ranking and get new visitors / eyes to your website for more potential leads.  There’s so much that social networking can do to connect us to more people and website visitors.

Next, as the Clean Email Queen, I’ve had to help micro-business and small business owners answer the question of how they can build truly Permission-Based lists and Permission-Based Email Marketing campaigns.  Social networking helps us with warm leads and people who want to be a part of our community / email newsletter program and much more.

Lastly, you want to know valid ways of measuring your true success.  Followers or contacts is not a true measure of success in social networking.  It’s only the active social networking participants that count towards your success.  So, we measure our success with other more tangible indicators such as re-tweets and other measures of success.

If you’re interested in a full service or nearly full service program to increase your online marketing leads and leverage social networking, contact me at Yenius Interactive Marketing.

Otherwise, I’ve designed the Create a Website Workshops program for a DIY program.  You can learn how to be your own social networking success and be supported all the way along.  Contact me for the registration form of Create a Website Workshops.   I call it the “weight watchers” of social networking.  We teach people the lifestyle and we have sessions so you can maintain your new lifestyle and improve, with more advanced tips & techniques in our alumni program.

And, I’ll see you all on the social networking scene!

And, it’s a lot of fun!