Grammar has become a serious matter with social networking site Facebook. You should no longer see such statements as “Suzie changed their profile picture.”

If you are a Facebook user who hasn’t specified your gender in your Facebook profile you will be asked to in the coming weeks. That way Facebook doesn’t have to default to “their” or the made up word “themself” as it did in the past.

Not knowing someone’s gender does pose problems with English grammar but even more so as Facebook expands to other languages it creates more problems. This is due to the fact that in other languages there isn’t a gender neutral option available in plural form. People who haven’t indicated their sex have been defaulted to the wrong sex entirely. According to management at Facebook transgendered people and other users who find the male-female distinction limiting will still have the option of removing gender entirely from their profiles.

This isn’t the first time Facebook has dealt with grammar related issues. At first members were limited to what they could say in their “status updates” for their friends, as in “Tom is wasting time on Facebook.” Facebook late last year decided to drop the “is” and allow users to supply their own verb and write updates such as “Tom just wasted time on Facebook.”

These improvements definitely make Facebook more pleasant to work with.

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This is from an email dated May 31, 2008 so it’s a few days old. Are you familiar with such websites as MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. These are two great sites loosely in my opinion categorized as social networking sites for getting website traffic to your blogs.

Well the news that I received is that BlogCatalog just got a facelift. The owners who took over BlogCatalog a year and a half ago focused on adding features. They have finally finished these updates.

The new features include:
* A new homepage
*New navigation
*New tabs in groups, account settings, dashboard, and user profiles
*Updated blog listing pages and much, much more.

If you are not a member of BlogCatalog simply go to http://www.blogcatalog.com and create an account and then join me as a contact at http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/kstien1959.

Technorati Tags: blogcatalog, blog catalog, blog traffic, social networks, blog promotion

Diyana Alcheva in her blog at www.networkmarketingsmart.com said that Twitter can be categorized as a social networking site, a content sharing site and even a bookmarking site in a way.

She claims that it is a social networking site because it allows you to network and communicate with other people. You can stay in touch with friends by inviting them to follow you. It’s a way for you to stay in touch with some of your busy friends or get to know better some of the people in the social marketing world.

Because Twitter has been called a micro-blogging site it can also be characterized as a content sharing site. Diyana says that “When you provide powerful and valuable information you become recognized as an expert in the field. What does this mean for your network marketing business?”

Twitter can also be called a social bookmarking site because of the following reason:

Many users who are also called “Twitters” would often refer to a website in their “tweets” they just came across that they found valuable.

Diyana goes on to relate how you can integrate Twitter with Facebook and also use Twitter as an Internet broadcasting mechanism.

For Diyana’s full post about using Twitter to build your network marketing business visit http://www.networkmarketingsmart.com

Technorati Tags: diyana alcheva, network marketing, twitter, facebook, mlm

As one of the items that I have added to Blog Smart Resources in order to provide both more information and add some profitability to this blog I have added The Newsroom from Voxant.

There are now several videos that have to do with blogging, web 2.0 and social networking. More additions to this page are coming soon.

Technorati Tags: voxant, the newsroom, blogging, social networking, web 2.0, news

As many of you may know I am not only into blogging, social networking and blogging but I am also an avid network marketer. I found a video at YouTube that talks about using Facebook (social networking) to find new contacts for your network marketing business. Here is the video.

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What if you could share many of the feeds and links to your social media sites, your blogs, social networking sites and tagging sites as well as video and music sites? That possibility is available through www.friendfeed.com.

This site isn’t brand new;however, it still isn’t as publicized as I believe it should be. They could also improve the site by adding a F.A.Q. section for new users. Instead they assume that each new user will know how to proceed. To the seasoned veteran of using services like this it is very easy to figure out. For those who are newbies to the world of RSS and social bookmarking it may take awhile longer to get used to using it.

Even with the drawback that I mentioned about the site not having a F.A.Q. section I do feel that this is most likely the best online tool for sharing multiple feeds. You can share feeds from such services such as Digg, Google Reader, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Last.fm, your own personal blogs and much more.

To view my feed and subscribe to it simply visit http://friendfeed.com/kstien1959.

Technorati Tags: rss, sharing, social media, tagging, social bookmarking, social networking, friendfeed

Is Twitter a mini blogging platform? Well yes and no in my opinion. It is in that it allows you to make short posts that can be followed by RSS. But beyond that it lacks the functionality of blog platforms and since it only allows you to enter a little more than a sentence at most it truly isn’t a blog. What is it then. Here is what MySpace blogger Matt Bacak had to say about Twitter.

“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”

If you want to get started with Twitter or you already use it you can follow me on Twitter by going to:
http://twitter.com/kstien1959

Technorati Tags: twitter, twittering, social networking, web 2.o, online communication, communication

I have never participated in one of these joint venture giveaways as a partner but I probably should have participated in the one that I am going to mention in this blog post. The reason is that this blog is all about blogging as is the giveaway event.

The new blogging giveaway is titled the Great Blogging Giveaway   in which most of the ebooks and software  being given away by the various Join Venture partners is related to blogging, rss or social networking. Some of the titles being given away include:

RSS Feed Submitter - Automatically Submit to all Major feed directories
The A to Z About RSS
Blog Finder Pro - Offers the Easiest and Fastest Way to Locate Related Blogs in any Niche. This will Help You to Compile a List of Blogs You can Leave Comments on and Build a Ton of Backlinks Instantly! It identifies Wordpress blogs with the ‘nofollow’ tag in the comments field in ANY niche you choose It saves you time and effort from searching for blogs manually to leave comments on and building backlinks
YouTube Video Sites Generator In A Box
The Most Useful Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog

and many more titles too numerous to mention. This is not the normal giveaway with software that you will never use. If you really like to blog you will find some items in this giveaway that are useful to you. Go to the Great Blogging Giveaway today and sign up to get your gifts.

Technorati Tags: blogging, blog tools, seo, social networking, software, ebooks, joint ventures, giveaways, free products

I was just getting ready to write a report on how some new social networking websites can help you to earn money and to build your business when I got sidetracked reading about social networking and social marketing. However, in the process of reading about social marketing at a blog titled Entrepreneur’s Journey, specifically an article entitled 3 Social Marketing Tips You Can Implement Today - The particular blog post was about a new video and service by StomperNet.

I decided to investigate the author of the blog. The particular blog belongs to Yaro Starak, a young entrepreneur from Australia. He presently blogs about internet marketing, small business, entrepreneurship and self development at the previously mentioned www.entrepreneurs-journey.com and also www.smallbusinessbranding.com.

In doing research about Yaro I also found another blog that he publishes titled the Blog Traffic School Prelaunch Blog that has a subscribe form for the Blog Traffic Tips Newsletter which I highly recommend. I just started getting the newsletter today and I must say that I am already impressed. There are several helpful tips for getting traffic to your blog both on Yaro’s blog and in the newsletter. I encourage you to visit his blogs and subscribe to his newsletter.

Technorati Tags: yaro starak, blog traffic, blogging, social marketing, social media, social networking, internet marketing

I usually don’t blog on Sundays and it has been quite awhile since I have made a post to this blog. But since Christmas is on its way I thought that I would make a post that might interest you. Hopefully you can consider this a Christmas present to you. I hope that you can enjoy Christmas with your family and friends. Here is my gift to you.

Over the last few months several new social networking sites similar to MySpace have popped up on the Internet. The main difference though is that all of these new sites allow you to earn money in some way by being a member. The latest one that I will mention is Zion5.

Zion5 helps you to earn money from referrals as well as to promote some of your favorite programs. As with all social networking sites it gives you a profile area to configure. And best of all it’s free. Just go to Zion5 and find out more information and join for free.