Don't Be a Predator's Victim: Alert the Kids!

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Do You Care About the Well-being and Safety of Kids? Teach them Web Safety!

Hello, Everyone! After watching and listening to this video, I knew I wanted to share it with you and I'm so grateful that I can because it's embeddable. This video is from Dr. Mike Thomson, an accomplished, talented, and internationally-admired Speaker, Author, Therapist, Consultant, Coach, Educator, and University Professor. Also, he is President of two very successful companies, It’s All About Character and Thomson ETC., Inc. Dr. Mike, as he's known, is on a mission to help people realize their/our true potential as a parent, teacher, coach, employee, entrepreneur or business owner.

In this video he shares crucial-to-know information, that should be shared with every grandparent, parent, relative and everyone that cares about the safety of:

• their grand-children,
• children,
• pre-teen relatives
• and teen-aged relatives,
• as well as other people's pre-teens and teen-agers

Thanks to Dr. Thomson's details in this video, I now know more of the lingo that online-predators are using to lure kids into danger, destruction, sexual attacks / sexual violence / sexual degradation / child-trafficking / human-trafficking and possibly death.

Dr. Thomson is enlightening us with this information and I'm sharing it in order to spread the knowledge. Predators harm others (in all the deviant ways that they do), simply to satisfy their warped desires and this is evil, malicious and wrong; it's criminal! After you view this video share the information and, together, let's do all we can to prevent these predators from gaining access to any child, of any age, everywhere!

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Eco-friendly Brands as 'Tools for Change' - @vyouz

Vyouz Network: Social, Economic and Environmental Change

Hello, Everyone!  The Vyouz Network is a platform (UK and USA) for positive social, economic and environmental change of which Virgil Vyouz is the brains! The key aim and vision of all involved with the Vyouz Network is helping to reduce the negative impact we have on our planet, Earth, by developing innovative, eco-friendly brands as genuine "tools for change". Most of Vyouz's concepts directly address ways to help protect our planet.


Vyouz Highlights:

• Free Websites - which provide tools required to re-use, recycle, give-away and swap unwanted items, daily.
• Classified Websites - which support their free websites including 'GivAid' (their charitable arm)
• Social Networking Engine- meet and make friends with others that genuinely care about our planet.
• Eco-friendly Infrastructure - Vyouz is hosted using 100% renewable energy via usage of servers that are powered solely by wind, water and solar power.
• Vyouz Ethos - Your views (vyouz) count, so as their motto states, they want you/us to "See it. Say it. Change it."

You may view Vyouz Network videos at Vyouz's Channel.  Thank-you, @vyouz (another of my @Chaella Tweeple) for sharing with us!

Social Network Marketing: Drastically Improve Your Brand Identity and Reach - @ScottyMore

Social Network Marketing
Hello, Everyone! This post features the services of fellow, @DelynsBliss Tweeter, @ScottyMore a.k.a Scott Perry. Perry is a Social Media Strategist, Social Network Management Coach and Consultant. Also, he offers Enterprise-level solutions.

As Perry explains, "Your Social Network is the "Glue" that connects your online relationships together - thus becomes the basic building blocks of your "Viral Sphere." Your "Viral Sphere" is your Twitter, Blog, Landing page, Website, Facebook, YouTube and the world of other Social Networking sites and apps that weave your online relationships together.

Not meant to replace your current and successful advertising and sales programs, Social Network Marketing can drastically improve your brand identity and reach of your products or services. When used properly, Social Network Marketing allows you to have a continual conversation with your customers and prospects - putting you in control of your message 24/7! It is your choice as to how to use your Viral Sphere! Even the smallest of companies can be brand leaders!" ~ Scott Perry

Thank-you @ScottyMore for sharing your video and information with us!

Measuring Your Social Networking ROI

How to Measure Your Social Media Marketing Campaign's Return On Investment (ROI)

Hello, Everyone! Bianca Male of Business Insider shares "The 10 Social Media Metrics Your Company Should Monitor".

The top three social metrics being measured are 'Visitors and sources of traffic', 'Network size (followers, fans, members)' and 'Quantity of commentary about brand or product'. The ten important social media metrics to measure are:

• Social media leads
• Engagement duration
• Bounce rate
• Membership increase and active network size
• Activity ratio
• Conversions
• Brand mentions in social media
• Loyalty
• Virality
• Blog interaction

What's Your Social Media Return on Investment?

Exceptional ROI with Social Media Marketing

Hello, Everyone!

Today's Feature: Social Media ROI

This 'Social Media ROI: Socialnomics' video is by Socialnomics author, Erik Qualman. It showcases several social media ROI examples along with other effective social media strategies. ~ Socialnomics09

Is Social Media a Fad?

Social Media: A Fundamental Communications Shift

Hello, Everyone!

Today's Feature: Social Media Revolution

Is social media a fad, or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details social media facts and figures that are profound and enlightening. The data reaveals social media to be a fundamental shift in the way people are communicating, globally.

Green Marketing: 5 Ingredients to Creating Buzz Online

The New Economy: People, Planet & Profit
Buzz Marketing Ingredients

Good day, Everyone! The following presentation is vividly interesting and informative, with details of how to create a buzz online. Specifically, it shares the few, key ingredients that must be present for a web campaign to be truly successful in achieving its goals. View it to discover the examples of these keys:

1. Ground Breaking
2. Cool
3. Spread Correctly
4. Believable
5. Simple

These keys may be what you need for your online/web campaign. It's so good you'll want to go through it more than once and visit the actual sites (online) of the examples! I have. Enjoy!

Green Marketing: 5 Ingredients to Creating Buzz Online

Think Before You Post - Facebook

News Hub: Navigating Facebook's Privacy Changes ~ 12/9/2009

Good day, Everyone! Facebook has rolled out privacy changes, including the elimination of regional networks as well as the ability to specify who can see photos, links or other posted items a member adds to his profile. In the following video Wall Street Journal's Julia Angwin and Elizabeth Bernstein join the News Hub to discuss the changes.

Facebook: Ten Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy

Good day, Everyone!  Today's post features Facebook Privacy Tips. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.  As you may know, many individuals, entrepreneurs and companies are utilizing it quite successfully as a business tool.  You'll want to be knowledgeable about safely utilizing Facebook.

10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy
Posted by: Dr. Joseph Mercola
September 29, 2009

"Facebook has over 300 million active users. It is growing VERY rapidly. In July of this year there were 250 million users and 75 days later they added another 50 million users. Please understand that Facebook will become as pervasive as phones and computers, so if you aren’t on already I would strongly encourage you to consider joining.

Unfortunately, most users don’t know the implications of entering personal information, making friends, and playing games on Facebook.

However these concerns are EASY to address if you follow the guidelines below. Please understand that I strongly believe Facebook now offers a very powerful way to leverage our influence and more rapidly change the fatally flawed conventional paradigm.

I am VERY excited about Facebook and spend a lot of my free time connecting with highly leveraged individuals and CEOs of major companies, and news media. I have several major national news correspondents and journalists as friends.

I’m currently in the process of brainstorming a strategy to optimize these new relationships, but once that is done we should be able to get the message out to well over ten million people.

At this time I believe Facebook is going to play a major role in the beginning of the end of the entire corrupt system.

Currently Facebook limits the number of friends you can have to 5000 and I reached that many months ago. So if you haven’t already done so, please join my Facebook Fan page which has around 20,000 fans at this time.

There is a good chance that Facebook will change the rules and open up the Fan page to friends in the near future, so please join my Fan Page now.

Once you join Facebook, or if you are already on it, please follow these guidelines to preserve your privacy.

1. Organize Friends in Lists

Friend Lists are the foundation of your Facebook privacy settings. Select Friends from the top menu, and  use the Create link to create friend lists like Co-workers, Family, College Friends, etc. Your friends can’t see your lists, so you can name them whatever you like.

2. Customize Profile Privacy

Click Settings > Privacy Settings > Profile. Select which parts of your profile will be seen by whom. If you choose Customize in the drop down, you can be more specific. This is where the Friend Lists you created before become really useful.

Also go to the Contact Information tab and choose how you want your contact information to be shared on the Internet.

3. Set Facebook Privacy Level of Photo Albums

On the Photos tab of your profile page, click Album Privacy. Here again, you can use your Friend Lists to set the privacy for each photo album. Note that your profile pictures go into a special album that is always visible to ALL your friends.

4. Restrict Search Visibility

Click Privacy > Search to set your visibility when someone searches Facebook for people. This is an important way to safeguard your Facebook privacy.

5. Control Automatic Wall Posts and News Feed Updates

Your actions in Facebook such as comments, likes, appear as highlights on ALL your friends’ home pages. You cannot use friend lists here, only turn them on or off. Go to Privacy > News Feed and Wall and make your selections.

6. Set Facebook Wall Privacy

Go to your profile page, click Options > Settings under the status box. Here you can control whether your friends can post to your Wall, and who can see the posts made by your friends.

7. Avoid Appearing in Advertisements

Facebook has two types of advertisements: third-party and Facebook. Third-party advertisements are currently not allowed to use your pictures, but there is a setting to disallow it if it is allowed in the future. Go to Privacy > News Feed and Wall > Facebook Ads tab to turn this off.

8. Protect Yourself from Friends’ Applications

Go to Privacy > Applications, and click the Settings tab and uncheck all the boxes. These settings control what information about you is visible to applications installed by your friends. By default, these are set to visible. This means that your information is readily available to one of the million worldwide Facebook application developers, each time any of your friends takes a quiz, plays a game, or runs any other Facebook app. These settings control what applications installed by your friends can see about you, even if you don’t install the application yourself.

9. Privacy from Your Applications

There is no way to control what applications see about you; it is an all-or-nothing affair. The only thing you can do is to authorize only those applications you require and trust. Go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu. Change the drop-down from Recently Used to Authorized. Here you can see all the applications you have authorized to get access to ALL your profile information. Remove the ones you no longer need. Also check the list of applications Allowed to Post and Granted Additional Permissions to remove unwanted ones.

10. Quitting Facebook? Delete, Don’t Just De-Activate Your Account

You can easily deactivate your account in Facebook from the Settings page. But deactivation will retain all your profile information within Facebook, including pictures, friends, etc. If you want to permanently delete your Facebook account, click here to submit a deletion request. Note that:

There is an unspecified delay between submitting your delete request and actual deletion.

If you login to Facebook, your deletion request is automatically cancelled.

There doesn’t seem to be any way to confirm that your request was completed.

Even after permanent deletion, copies of your photos may remain on their servers for technical reasons.

Sources: MakeUseOf.com September 13, 2009"



Note: Also, view "3 New Facebook Strategies for Building Your Personal Brand"

Video - Social Network for the Affluent

Good afternoon, Everyone! I've begun to share items with you that are about 'affluence', which I think you all will enjoy. As I've mentioned before, being affluent can be a very good thing when enjoyed, lived and utilized in a 'win-win' manner. I realize some people make affluence look like it's only a lifestyle for the wicked to aspire to and obtain. However, that's not what our Creator planned for us. He created affluence for our personal blessing as well as a tool-set to bless others from.

With that said, I'm sharing an interesting video I discovered this week about a social networking site that is exclusively for the rich and powerful. You may already be qualifed to be apart of such a social networking site as Affluence. Enjoy!