Social and business networking sites are changing the way people talk online.

Sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo help friends stay in touch while LinkedIn and Plaxo mainly connect business users. They are very popular but present new challenges to IT managers.

They seem to have come out of nowhere. For example, Facebook had 1m active users in the UK in February 2007. Today, nine months later, it has 7m users1. This extraordinary growth is part of the problem. Companies risk being caught off guard.

Consider the Risks

Broken privacy and identity theft.
Some services also allow third parties to run applications that have access to users’ profile. This is a potential privacy risk. People publish a wealth of personal information in their profiles. This makes social networking sites a happy hunting ground for identity thieves and conmen.

Cyber-slacking.
Social networking sites can be addictive and time-consuming. Cyber-slacking is a genuine concern.

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QUICK AND EASY ON-SITE INSTALLATION: The installation of a BEBO Arch involves preparation of the site, casting or placement of strip footings, placement of BEBO Arch sections and final backfilling of the structure. Depending on project size, preparation of the site may be completed in a matter of hours. This preparation work may be scheduled for immediately prior to delivery of the precast units to the site. Placement of each BEBO Arch unit is
carried out by crane and is a straightforward and rapid operation.

Get Online. Post Your Stuff.

The Internet has become a standard element in an educator’s toolbox. As a student in the College of Education and Human Sciences, we would like to encourage you to develop an online portfolio and a website for creating and sharing instructional materials.

For several years the College of Education and Human Sciences has maintained a Manila content management server that has been used by students to create websites. College technology staff concluded that a transition away from Manila was necessary for several reasons. Most notably, security and support issues were creating serious
problems. Although the Manila server has been taken offline, we are providing an alternate location for you to access and retrieve content from your Manila website. You may choose to transfer your content into another publishing space. This document is intended to help make you aware of the options you have when moving your content into a new website.

What makes LiveJournal Unique?

Self-Expression
We provide tools that you can use to communicate with others in immediate and in creative ways. We in letting you create your own content and to choose how to express yourself, your thoughts, and your feelings.

Diversity
We welcome and respect different opinions, different cultures, and different perspectives. LiveJournal brings people of various backgrounds together. We strongly support freedom of expression, and we’re committed to helping you share your diversity with others.

Creativity
We encourage you to use the features that LiveJournal offers to share the process of creating content with your friends. Whatever form it may take we believe that everyone has something to offer and want to make it easy for you to share that with the world.

HubPages is a web site where people write useful, entertaining articles on any specific topic and get rewarded with earnings. If you are a writer and don’t have any idea about html or javascript, then Hubpages is for you. HubPages gets plenty of traffic from search engines, so, when you write your first article, you are bound get plenty of visitors (1000 a day, if the title is catchy and if it is an useful article). Anyone can join HubPages and the operating procedure is simple - if you know how to use an email program, then you will have no trouble in using HubPages . Simply put, with HubPages, you don’t need to worry about bringing traffic or making money. It is already set up for you.

1. Massive Traffic: HubPages get massive traffic - that is in excess of 1.6 million visitors a month. HubPages get ranked in the search engines quickly and most of them in the first pages bringing you instant traffic right away. You need not worry about doing search engine optimization, bringing traffic or advertising your blog. Traffic is already there for you. For easy to follow traffic tips, refer to How to get 150,000 visitors in 150 days or less: 10 Easy-to-follow Hubpages Tricks
2. Plenty of Money: When you create a hub page, contextual ads can be shown with a Google Adsense account. Create a free account with Google Adsense, and integrate with Google Adsense (Help: How to set up Google Adsense with Hubpages and Earn Plenty with Adsense? ). You earn when someone clicks the contextual ads and all you need toprovide hub pages is your adsense-tracking-code. Also, you can become an Amazon affiliate or Ebay affiliate and link your hubpage account. When people buy after clicking through your hub pages, you will earn affiliate commission from Amazon and eBay.

Now, you got the clear picture. You need not even understand anything about technical stuff. You just write and publish great articles that informs or entertains (or does both) the readers. HubPages will give you traffic and money to you. It’s as simple as that.

In chess, promotion occurs when a pawn reaches the eighth square. At that point, your opponent is challenged because this simple pawn takes on all the powers of a Queen—the deadliest piece on the board. Of course, the pawn may be promoted to bishop, rook, or any other piece but why? This only clues the other player in to your secret plans. That being said, however, promotions to knight can often be strategically useful depending on the situation.

Let’s not get too lost in metaphor. Suffice to say, the circuitous game of promoting one’s blog in the blogosphere (without the proper armament) can often seem as difficult and unrewarding as a daylong chess match that ends in a draw. If you play your game right, however, that pawn can hit the big time. Ideally, the simple act of blogging in and of itself would attract enough traffic to please the author but there are cases in which more is better.