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This is the age of social networking that help you stay connected with your family and friends and also do many other things. Visiting our site anytopten.com you can find some of the top social networking available today to share your photos, videos, ideas and views and many more.From:Scott GarciaViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:49More inScience Technology

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President and COO of Rocket21 Jodell Seagrave interviewed by Brian Solis
Rocket21 is a new social networking site that connects teens to older professionals in an open forum-type style. On this episode of Revolution, Rocket21 President Jodell Seagrave explains how her site, and social technology in general, are keeping different generations connected. http://www.briansolis.comFrom:BrianSolisTVViews:44 0ratingsTime:14:05More inScience Technology

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Takeaway: Having the proper tools allows you to keep your business on top of social networking and keep you one step ahead of the competition.

Businesses cannot escape the fact that social networking has become a necessity. Not only to spread the word about your product or service, but for keeping your own finger on the pulse of the consumers in your market. Its free PR with serious payoff.

Heres the problem - the standard browser-based clients dont always offer all of the features you might want or need. From aggregation to easy photo posting, in order to make the most efficient use of your social networking efforts, you need clients that make the job easy. I have found five desktop social networking clients that are not only easy, but free too.

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Sobees is an incredibly powerful tool that not only allows you to update your status across multiple account types (or multiple Twitter accounts), it also offers a powerful search tool, and even allows you to edit the layout of the client. The ability to assign different social networking accounts to different sections of your layout, makes Sobees really stand out. It can also be viewed in columns or in tabs. Finally, Sobees allows you to update all of your accounts in one go. Sobees is available for Windows only.

Tweetdeck is one of the most popular Twitter desktop clients available and theres a reason for that. Tweetdeck allows you to schedule tweets, manage multiple Twitter accounts, manage your facebook accounts, and get notified about new activity instantly. Tweetdeck also allows you to customize the interface and automatically shorten URLs. The client is available for Windows, Mac OS, and as a Chrome extension. Tweetdeck is free and is no longer based on Adobe Air.

Gwibber is a Linux-only desktop client that allows you to monitor and update Twitter, Facebook, Google, Identi.ca, Digg, and Flikr. What is unique about Gwibber is that it integrates seamlessly into the desktop notification system. Gwibber features URL shortening, theming, multi-column user interface, combined stream for all accounts, persistent message caching, a built-in search tool, and optional support for integrated spell checking.

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Workshare, a leading provider of secure enterprise collaboration applications, has acquired IdeaPlane, an enterprise social network built specifically for highly regulated industries. This deal will provide Workshare customers with a complete collaboration and communication solution by integrating IdeaPlanes easy-to-use, secure and compliant social networking features into Workshares collaboration platform.

According to arecent reportby McKinsey & Company, adopting social technologies offers companies the potential to improve productivity of highly skilled workers by 20-25% and save billions of dollars from time lost on inefficient communications and information searches. This acquisition enables Workshare to extend this benefit to its growing customer base and further differentiate its integrated enterprise collaboration platform.

Built in partnership with one of the worlds largest investment banks and launched earlier this year, IdeaPlanes customizable social networking platform can be rapidly and securely deployed across regulated organizations. IdeaPlane will enhance the Workshare platform with robust social networking features, including status updates; the promotion of important events, news and content; email notifications and the creation of open, closed and secret groups. Enterprise administration features allow companies to comprehensively manage and moderate the network.

According to Gartner, Inc.s November 2011 report, Market Trends: A New Marketplace Develops in the Enterprise Social Software Market as Convergence Continues Through 2015, The enterprise social software market is evolving in response to the demand for flexible environments in which participants can connect, create, share, and find people and information relevant to their work. Moreover, established vendors are enhancing their products with improved support for social interactions.

The enterprise social network market is projected to be worth more than $6.4 billion by 2016 but is currently served by vendors providing consumer-oriented, open networks that do not prioritize the security and compliance requirements of enterprise organizations. IdeaPlanes integration into the Workshare product portfolio allows us to meet our customer requirements for ultra-secure social networks that maintain the integrity of data and IP security mandates set by an organization, said Anthony Foy, CEO of Workshare. Our combined platform will allow organizations to monitor, manage and closely control the social network being used within their organizations while facilitating collaboration and the exchange of information and ideas.

Forrester believes that a new generation of social enterprise apps will finally deliver the productivity businesses desire by systematically grouping and rating people, information, and processes required to answer business needs, said Henry Dewing, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc., in a November 2011 report entitled Social Enterprise Apps Redefine Collaboration. By creating a social layer between information workers and the applications and communications infrastructure, social enterprise apps will overcome the adoption malaise that has affected unified communications and collaboration.

This acquisition makes strategic sense for us given both companies focus on customers for whom security, compliance and control are paramount, said James Fabricant, founder and CEO IdeaPlane. We have ashared vision for the application of social tools in the enterprise and we have platforms that can be integrated into one unified solution to realize that vision."

Over 18,000 organizations across 70 countries rely on Workshare including 98% of AmLaw 200 law firms and 62% of the Fortune 1000.

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Social networking titans Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg probably didn't think the effects of their respective websites would trickle down to policy amendments in school systems.

But they have in Lenoir County. The public school system's social media policy now prohibits employees from "friending" current students via personal social networks except under special circumstances. The policy does not distinguish between personal accounts and accounts operated for classroom use.

If an employee and student have a "family relationship or other type of appropriate relationship which originated outside of the school setting," then the ban does not apply, according to the policy approved Nov. 5 by the Lenoir County Board of Education.

The policy allows out-of-school associations between students and teachers through civic, social, recreational, sport and religious organizations.

Some students still don't like it.

"If we can't follow the teachers, I think that's bad," Kinston High School senior DeAndria Bryant said. "One of my teachers has a class account that reminds us when we have tests or to study."

She added that amending the policy to guard against students "following teachers for personal uses is understandable."

The amendment is consistent with what other districts are doing statewide and nationally to keep policies up to date with social networking websites, according to Brent Williams, the system's executive director of operations.

"Social media is one of those fast-evolving technologies," he said. "With regard to social networking sites, they become so popular and so much a part of our everyday life that school systems are recognizing the need to update their policies to specifically address those sites."

Teachers who violate Lenoir County's policy be "subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal," decided by Superintendent Steve Mazingo.

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