Archive for March, 2009

FilmCrave Develops API to Syndicate Reviews, Launches First Partner

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FilmCrave, an award winning movie social network, announces their first syndication partnership with HiDefDVD.com. HiDef showcases FilmCrave movie reviews, trailers, ratings, and other information on their website to enhance the customer experience. HiDef offers more than 150,000 titles and features both new and hard to find Blue Ray and DVD movies.

The HiDef integration of movie data shows how other websites can benefit from such unique and plentiful content.

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uuzip.com – Collective Wisdom of Online Shopping

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Online shopping has been one of those passions that will always bring excitement to people. People have been doing online shopping for a decade but alone for the most part. Uuzip.com changes all that. uuzip.com is a community where people can start their own forums and discussions on their favorite online products.

When it comes to the tips on what to buy and avoid, advices from your friends and family count the most. Uuzip provides a platform for friends and family members to ask questions and share opinions on their latest shopping ideas. Just like facebook and twitter, you can also follow as well as participate on your friends’ latest updates.

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100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals

Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals

Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. College students can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these twitter tools will help you get there.

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Search Cloudlet Adds Tag Clouds to Twitter

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Search Cloudlet – an easy-to-use Firefox extension that adds context-sensitive tag clouds to the most popular search engines and helps people more efficiently navigate through their search results. The previous version of Search Cloudlet worked with Google and Yahoo; the new version also works with Twitter. It adds Tag Clouds, Author Clouds, Recipient Clouds and Hashtag Clouds to Twitter search, Twitter user profiles and home pages.

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How Nonprofits Can Utilize Social Media Successfully

How Nonprofits Can Utilize Social Media SuccessfullyAs the recession continues to handicap individuals across the nation, non-profits are increasingly seeing the crippling affects of donors feeling that they are unable to make charitable contributions. Traditional means of fund raising and donor solicitation are not enough, forcing non-profits to find new ways to obtain donations. More and more nonprofits are attempting to integrate social networking and social media tools into their fund raising toolbox while they simultaneously introduce communications strategies to encourage “micro-giving” and engage a younger generation.

Non-profits are beginning to creatively use platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to help fill in the gaps where traditional giving is now falling through. Social media provides non-profits the ability to garner attention for their cause, develop community relationships and have conversations in ways that traditional marketing never could – or at least not in a way that doesn’t potentially eat up an entire year’s marketing budget. Social media tools can enable nonprofits to increase their donor base, particularly among a younger demographic that may have not donated to charities otherwise. Instead of targeting solely wealthier benefactors, nonprofits can utilize social media to reach more people who are able to give smaller donations.

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