Are you seeking a job? Have you ever thought about creating your own? There are a large amount of resources available to assist you in getting in touch with other entrepreneurs who have a common interest just like you. We have composed a list of 5 of the best social networks available to entrepreneurs. Each of these networks helps entrepreneurs by offering them all the necessary tools and resources required to establish their company and increase their exposure.

1. Entrepreneur Connect

Just as with all other types of social networks, Entrepreneur Connect gives you the chance to make your own profile, search the community, network and share information and ideas with others. You will be able to use this network to get in touch with suppliers, marketers, co-workers and service providers. They also have professional groups for you to join or you can create your own.

2. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is very important for anybody who is either looking for a job, wants to network with similar people, or establish a company. LinkedIn provides a lot of resources to entrepreneurs, it is very important for entrepreneurs to brand themselves in the right way so as to draw in the right business opportunities. You can do various searches to get in touch with different types of service providers or even business partners. You can take part in LinkedIn Answers or events in order to make you a useful member in your community.

3. PartnerUp

PartnerUp is another social network for entrepreneurs. It is used by persons who are looking for other persons and resources for some form of business opportunity. This network is available to anyone; however business partners, founders, and executives will get more benefits. You will be able to ask or give advice or get a hold of service providers such as accountants and marketers.

4. Go BIG Network

The Go BIG Network covers job seekers, as well as funding sources, service providers and entrepreneurs. This social network allows you post requests for assistance, which are then sent to other individuals in the appropriate network. Members are able to search through the profiles of other members and can contact them or make a request.

5. StartupNation

Just about all social networks overlook content and that is what makes StartupNation so valuable. StartupNation have a lot of articles, on-demand seminars, blogs, forums and podcasts, which will make entrepreneurs more prepared for any business venture. There are many different subjects being discussed on the network, like web-based business marketing and business planning.

If you’re an entrepreneur or wish to become one, these sites are really beneficial to help you and your business master your niche.

The social media world is in chaos as two of the leading social media sites have been attacked. Today Twitter is experiencing a prolonged down time due to a malicious Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). Facebook too has acknowledged that their periodical website issues too are due to DDoS activity.

A Facebook representative stated that “Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered network issues related to an apparent distributed denial of service attack, that resulted in degraded service for some users. No user data was at risk and we have restored full access to the site for most users. We’re continuing to monitor the situation to ensure that users have the fast and reliable experience they’ve come to expect from Facebook.”

The popular blogging community Live Journal is also under attack from DDoS. None of these attacks are coincident, we are in the middle of an intentional attack on the world’s most popular social media sites: Facebook, Twitter and Live Journal.

The question that we now need to ask is who will be next?

Twitter is down, the site has lengthened its downtime; over the last few hours Twitter has disclosed that it’s fighting against a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS).

Twitter has been a lot more stable this year than it has been in the past. Twitter has indicated the status of its downtime on its blog, but also stated that it is not certain of the cause. They later indicated that it was a Distributed Denial of Service Attack. Knowing that this is a malicious attack may remove some of the heat from Twitter to some extent but it might be assumed by some individuals that the site is failing to scale properly. DDoS attacks are hard to fight off even for well successful sites.

With a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), a malicious party barrages on a host with numerous requests so that the server can’t keep abreast, or causes it to reset. Therefore, real users can rarely access the server or in Twitters case not at all.

Not only was the site down, but applications that uses the Twitter API cannot connect to the service as well, creating a full-scale Twitter blackout.

Who might have done this to Twitter? That’s the question on everyone’s mind because it can be anyone.

Author
Francine Byfield

Twitcam is the latest and hottest live video micro blogging website online all compliments of Stream Live. Below are 5 easy steps to getting started on Twitcam.

1. Sign in with your twitter account, if you don’t have a twitter account sign up for one.

2. Once you are signed in click the broadcast live button.

3. You will get a pop up asking for access to your microphone and camera, click allow.

4. Start broadcasting.

5. Once you are thru with your live broadcast, your video will be archived and displayed on the same page.

Simply put, twitter users only need to log into twitcam.com with their correct username and password and TwitCam will automatically find the camera installed; then you need to make a page for the live broadcast and then start your broadcast. You can also post the link in the your twitter feed so that your followers can join in live.

This makes a live video chat in twitter available with only one click.

An additional benefit of this tool is that while using TwitCam, you can also interact by tweeting normally with other followers.

That it, have fun Twitcaming!

Social Media should always be apart of a branding strategy for these main reasons.

- A Jamaican Brand will succeed only if it bridges the gap within the Jamaican consumer’s mind of where they’re now and where they looking to be, Social Media will help to build that bridge – this will help consumers in answering their fears and questions; while leading them to the reality of achieving their visions. Whether it is to be healthy, rich, successful etc.

- Jamaican Brands need to be able to communicate poperly at all levels in the jamaican society and towards all emotions. A few example of Social Networking medias are, youtube, flickr, Hi5 and Myspace you also have local communities.

- Jamaican Brands should appear to be consistent and stable in their consumers lives. You may use mediums such as RSS which allows the opt in approach from the consumer which stops you from forcing the brand in the consumer’s life.

- Jamaican Brands need to listen to their consumers so you need to be where they’re at, not for the sake of it,but to allow your brand to evolve. Some of the best examples of this are blogs and forums.

- Jamaican Brands need tools and advocates to spread the word about their brand and products, there is nothing better than Social Media as recommendations, which has great shareability.

Author: Gavin Robinson
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