Yes, it is definitely COOL to connect with friends and be a social butterfly on the social network sites. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social networks are cost effective (free) sites… which makes connecting with your friends that much more fun.
Think about this… what if you could build your list, get more customers and even find some joint venture partners on the same sites you visit with your friends and followers? Well, you can.
Be warned though, social networks still need to be social. That means you do not go on these sites and continually push your sites, blogs, products or services. You need to build rapport with the people who connect with you on these sites… build some solid relationships.
Offer up some free advice or information on your topic of expertise… help other people first and become the expert in their eyes. Once you've done that, people will be a lot more receptive to you offering up what you are selling. Still… even once you've got the relationships built, the majority of your tweets, posts, etc. need to be social or about helping others.
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Online dictionaries are a dime a dozen these days, but can that also be said about the online thesaurus?
Visual Thesaurus provides a little more innovative and high tech use of displaying words and it's relationships to Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs.
This is a one of a kind experience where you can actually visually see the different related words. For those visually minded people, you will see the words spatially.
Visual thesaurus is $20 per year. It can increase your brain power and give you a whole new outlook on your vocabulary. Great for both children and adults, the Visual Thesaurus is the best online thesaurus resource on the web.
So get rid of that outdated old Thesaurus that is taking precious shelf space (and collecting enough dust bunnies to start a farm) and opt for the best online thesaurus resource at your fingertips.
Check it out at TheCoolestCouple.com/VisualThesaurus
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Although Twitter is being touted as "the future of the Internet", it does have one major flaw… the interface displays all the tweets in a seemingly endless stream of words.
Mentionmap is designed to solve that specific problem. This tool gives you the ability to visualize your Twitter network in real-time and which people are interacting the most. This gives you amazing insight as to which topics and conversations are generating the most buzz among the people you're interested in hearing from.
This tool analyzes the people and hashtags being mentioned the most in your Twitter network. When someone mentions someone else, a line connects them. When several people are engaged in a cross-conversation, the results appear as a cluster. By hovering over the lines, it brings up detailed information about the subject. The thicker the line, the more frequent the number of cross mentions.
This is a totally Cool Tool, as it shows your networks on Twitter as a dynamic visualization… check it out!
TheCoolestCouple.com/MentionMap
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TweetDeck started as a Twitter application. Today it interfaces with Facebook, My Space, LinkedIn as well as Twitter.
TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up-to-date.
The neat thing about TweeDeck is it runs on top of Adobe AIR and this allows TweetDeck to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. There is also a version of TweetDeck for the iPhone.
Key Features:
- Update Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn
- Manage conversations with @replies and direct messages
- Record, share and watch video clips, and view YouTube videos within TweetDeck too
- Manage multiple Twitter accounts easily
- See what's hot with local trends and Twitscoop
- Add, create and manage Twitter Lists
- Organize and update Facebook with TweetDeck
- Preview short URLs from the comfort of TweetDeck
- Integrated LinkedIn for your professional contacts
- See who's following you
- Locate your friends
- Keep your finger on the pulse with MySpace
- Keep your TweetDeck safe with sync and back-up
Currently TweetDeck is FREE so try it out at TheCoolestCouple.com/TweetDeck
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