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Google Takes Apps Pitch Worldwide

Cloud computing, especially with Google is vital to non-profits that are cash strapped and looking for ways to improve their efficiencies/economies of scale. What struggling non-profit trying to provide direct services to folks (and spend the bulk of their money there) can afford full time (competent) IT Staff and hideously expensive licensing requirements and upgrades? This is the way out of the hole, once cloud computing’s stability and redundancy issues get sorted out. ~Michelle

http://www.internetnews.com/breakingnews/article.php/3844361

Google said more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft and IBM.

The campaign, which starts Monday in countries including France, Japan and Britain, represents a rare foray by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) into mass-market advertising and underscores increasing competition to provide businesses with e-mail and other office software.

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3 Ways for Business to Take Full Advantage of Facebook

These points are the same ones that I teach in my FB Basics class. Privacy settings are your friend! ~Michelle

http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2009/10/19/3-ways-for-businesses-to-take-full-advanage-of-facebook/3

Facebook continues to grow in popularity with small business to the point where it’s no longer a matter of if you should be utilizing this platform as how. It’s really no surprise to me that Facebook is generally deemed more useful for the small business than other social media tools, such as twitter. The Facebook platform and applications are such that a business could feasibly build their entire web presence there – particularly now that Fan pages can be viewed publicly by non Facebook users.

So, the question I want to dive into today is this: What’s the best way to approach Facebook for your business?

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Social Media and You

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There are pages you might be interested in on the menu to the right. The class materials were provided by Zero Divide and Connecting Stanislaus and are free downloadable basic computer class manuals. The “Social Media 101″ page is a collection of information about Social Media. The “files” page holds free, downloadable copies of basic instructions on how to start a Twitter account, a Facebook account and Fan Page, and how to start a YouTube account, all from eHow.com.

I hope you enjoy entering into the world of communicating with your customers via Social Networking!

Internet Privacy and Safety Training

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