How to secure and manage your privacy settings  on the major social networks.

Special One Day Class

About The Class

We’ve all heard those stories of people’s “private” data and information on social media being shared with the public without their knowledge. This hour and a half class will address the various privacy settings on the major social networks to help students become confident about what they’re sharing and to whom they’re sharing on the Social Web. Students should bring a laptop with WiFi capabilities. This will be a hands-on workshop.

How To Register and Details

The class will be held on Wednesday, August 17^th at the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Conference Room located at 4259 W. Swamp Road, Suite 400 – Doylestown, PA 18902 from 6pm to 7:30pm.

The cost is $20. Seats are Limited to 25 people so ACT FAST!

Register by going to http://gmwd.us/k5 (Skillshare) or scanning the QR Code with your phone.

Class Lead by Seth Goldstein of Goldstein Media LLC – Doylestown’s own Internet & Interactive Agency

For More Information Call Us At (215) 352-5216

More companies are embracing sites such as Foursquare, Google Places, Facebook, Twitter, among others to get to reach out to current and potential clients.

Many of these companies are offering deals to those people who engage them on Social Media.

Whether is through a Facebook page or blog contest, a Foursquare check-in give-a-way or any number of different awards, people in Philadelphia, like in most other metropolitan areas are using Social Media to enhance their lives.

What Can My Company Do To Engage These People?

That answer is simpler than it looks — embrace Social Media. Use it to connect, communicate and interact with your client-base.

But I don’t have time to be playing on Twitter and other such services.

There is always time for marketing. It’s about balancing your time effectively.

But how?

This is where Goldstein Media can help. We work without clients to help them interact and connect more effectively with their clients. We show them how to fit Social Media into the day without having it take over your life and take away from something else important.

We use our philosophy of Cross-Pollination to help get our clients’ messages out and help make Social Media more doable.

Give us a call today (215) 352-5216 and we’ll show you how to get the most out of Social Media.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about Social Media and the importance of having a home base which is fully in your control and all your own.

Sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Linkedin are all great and have amazing value. They shouldn’t be ignored, but they also shouldn’t be the only place where you cultivate content and audience.

Your Website and blog should be your main spot for posting content and growing a following, a readership and a reputation as a thought leader.

The idea of having a home base is rather simple. You have no control over Social Media sites. They can take your profile and content down when ever they want. They own the platform and have all the control. If you first post on your blog and link to it from your Social Media outposts you remain in control of that content.

Darren Rowse of Problogger has a great video explaining how he uses Social Media. It is very similar to how I use it as well.

So what do you think? Do you have a blog where your putting all of your original content before sending out to the outposts? If not, you might want to think about setting one up. If you would like to learn more about how Goldstein Media can help you with your Social Media plan, including setting up a home base for all your content, give us a call today at (215) 352-5216.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Post them below in the comments.

Now most people won’t argue that Zuckerberg has been extremely influential in the world of technology and the Internet, but I would argue he’s made much more of an impact this year to everyone.

Facebook, this year, has seen an influx of everyone and their Grandmother signing up on the service to connect with each other. The “Social Network”  has become no just a social networking site but an ecosystem for interaction and, dare I say it, trade.

Yes, trade. Facebook users, all 500+ million of them, have made the service an economic marketplace where advertisers and merchants alike advertising to the users in mass.

Facebook has an amazing pay-per-click system that allows a company to drill down their ads to appear to a specific demographic. This is unlike any other system, due mainly to the sheer number of users who share their vital statistics with Facebook.

When most people think advertisements they cringe. Ads are often the scourge of any area that they’re in. But honestly, I think the ads on Facebook aren’t bad at all. This is because of the advanced targeting that can be done of the 500+ million users on the service. The ads served are much more relevant to the user who is seeing them, making them more acceptable and even useful to the individual user.

If you’re a company that relies on a specific user base for revenue and growth, ignoring this giant is a fatal mistake. Facebook is a great place for not only B2C companies but B2B as well. It doesn’t need to be all that expensive. There are many strategies that can be employed to get the most out of Facebook, without breaking the bank.

If you see the writing on the wall, but are unsure of how to get your company started on Facebook, give us a call, (215) 352-5216, or fill out the form. We can help.

This screencast is to show you how to use the new privacy settings.

These are my links for January 14th through January 15th:

• PlaceWidget Allows Venues To Show Off Their Foursquare Mayors With Pride –
• Twitter’s Answer To Facebook Connect –
• 9 Specific Ways Your Business Can Use Twitter –
• Mozilla Drops Firefox 3.7, Switches to More Frequent Feature Updates –
• Where Have All The Old Tweets Gone? –

These are my links for January 14th:

• 12 Trends to Watch in 2010 | Electronic Frontier Foundation –
• Facebook unleashes lawyers on Web 2.0 Suicide Machine | NetworkWorld.com Community –
• Google Pulling Out of China? Don’t Bet On It – PC World –
• Official Google Blog: Helping Haiti respond to the earthquake –
• Official Google Blog: A new approach to China –
• NASA Be A Martian – Home –

These are my links for January 13th through January 14th:

• What Can Facebook, Yelp and Microsoft Teach the White House? –
• Survey the Damage in Haiti With Google Earth –
• Complaints rolling in about Google Nexus One – CNN.com –
• Haiti quake relief: How technology helps – CNN.com –
• System of a Down Drummer Boy Will Melt Your Face Off [VIDEO] –
• RUMOR: New iPhone Will Have a Better Camera, Sensitive Back –
• I’m With COCO: Conan O’Brien Tribute Takes Over Facebook –