Kris Cain and I dug into our #prettybrains, and here are some of the OTHER social networks you may or may not have heard of.
Add to the list – Just Tweet @webbusiness @littletechgirl, or post your additions to my Facebook page!

Oh, and she wrote a blog about this very topic, “5 Tips for Striking a Balance in Social Media”
Like to read it? Click here.

The Usual Suspects:

1.  Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Linkedin
4. Plaxo
5. Tumblr

Some of the other ones:

Bebo
It is your life online — a social experience that helps you discover what’s going on with your world and helps the world discover what’s going on with you. Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways. Bebo has sites all across the globe — US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands.

Chime.in
Chime.in is an interest network where you can share, connect with others, and build communities around your favorite topics.

Google Plus
Google+ makes connecting on the web more like connecting in the real world. Share your thoughts, links and photos with the right circles. Use easy, spontaneous video chat to strike up conversations with as many as nine people at once. Get everyone on the same page with fast, simple group chat.

Orkut
orkut is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. orkut’s social network can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you’ve never met before.

Meetup
Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Meetup’s mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.

DeviantArt
As a community destination, deviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. The site’s vibrant social network environment receives over 100,000 daily uploads of original art works ranging from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to digital art, pixel art, films and anime.

Pinterest
Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

BookCrossing
It’s the World’s Library. It’s a smart social networking site. It’s a celebration of literature and a place where books get new life. BookCrossing is the act of giving a book a unique identity so, as the book is passed from reader to reader, it can be tracked and thus connecting its readers. There are currently 1,004,539 BookCrossers and 8,993,942 books travelling throughout 132 countries. Our community is changing the world and touching lives one book at a time.

BranchOut
In today’s economy there are two competitive advantages that you must have. The first is a positive online presence, and the second is a “social” layer of your career. By social we mean real relationships, your family and friends on Facebook. BranchOut provides both in a way that is 100% professional.

Affluence.org
Affluence is a network built around introducing you to like-minded individuals all around the world. With Affluence Search you can meet other members based on everything from location to interest or expertise. Membership is free but requires a verifiable minimum household net worth of $1 million (US) or annual household income of $200,000.

Notable Mentions:
Meet the Boss

Apps!
SoundHound
Trying to find the name of a song? Play it, sing it, hum it, and Sound Hound will find it. (Android and iPhone)

Read It Later – When you can’t read it now, just post it to your list so you can Read it Later!

The Power of Social Media in the Trayvon Martin Case
(Read theHuffPo article.)
By now, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who does not know the name Trayvon Martin. By now, the tragic story of the 17-year-old’s death has been splashed across newspapers and network news. Yet, it wasn’t until after his family, friends and network of supporters spread the word online about his death that mainstream media, and finally, the justice system, took notice…

Getting Over the Google Drama…
Since the privacy policy changes, some people are attempting to leave Google and finding that it’s not such an easy process. For instance, if you’re an Android user – forget it. Android requires that you have a Google account. Period. Your options? Get an iPhone, Windows Phone or a Blackberry. Good luck porting over your data. Most of it isn’t portable to other platforms – at least not in ways that most people understand how to do it easily. Sorry.

Tom Henderson over at IT World has detailed his process for “divorcing” Google, and after 7 days of diary, he’s still working on it. Enough to make anyone say – - Nevermind. Read his blog for details.

Don’t Rely on Saved Voicemails!
When Faron Butler wanted to hear his daughter’s voice, he went to the voice mails she left him before she died of cancer at the age of 14. After signing up for a new messaging service offered by the telecom provider, the voicemails were deleted, leaving the grieving father with none of his daughter’s voiceprints. Full story here.

Another Woman Commits Suicide…on Facebook
A woman described her final moments of purposely inhaling poisonous fumes on Facebook to nine friends, some of whom begged her stop, reports the Associated Press. (MSNBC article)

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Sites to See:

Change.org
Change.org is a social action platform that empowers anyone, anywhere to start, join, and win campaigns for social change. Millions of people sign petitions on Change.org each month on thousands of issues, winning campaigns every day to advance change locally and globally.

Skillshare.com
Learn anything from anyone, anywhere.
Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. We believe that everyone has something they want to learn and something they can teach to others. This means our communities are really the greatest universities.

Mashable
Mashable is the largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology.

Ping.fm
Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don’t have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once from wherever you want, and be done with it.

Shopify.com
Shopify gives you your own storefront to sell your products on. You can pick from over 100 free and premium templates from our Theme Store or if you know HTML & CSS you can design one from scratch. Please note: Shopify does take a percentage of your transaction fees in addition to a monthly cost for using the service. As is, this is a great tool for medium to low volume sales, AND a winner if you don’t need alot of control over your own material and display.

Buddypress
Social networking, in a box. Everything you need to start your own self-hosted and WordPress-powered social network! Great for organizations, user groups, sales teams, and company intranets.

Special note: if you need a simple sectioned area, like a member area of your web site, WordPress already has that functionality. Simply make the pages “Private” instead of published, and add the code to the functions.php file to allow “subscribers” to view private content.

LaterBro
The easy way to schedule Facebook or Twitter updates, without being a slave to your phone or to your computer. Set it, and forget it!

W3Schools – Online Tutorials, FREE
At w3schools.com you will learn how to make a website. We offer free tutorials in all web development technologies.

ColorSchemer
Need a color scheme for your logo, web site, or phone app? ColorSchemer offers an eternity of color arrangements in its gallery (FREE) so you can browse until your heart’s content!

Evernote
Evernote lets you capture ideas, images, or audio clips from your PC or phone, and then sync them to the cloud for easy retrieval and organization. It even works with handwritten notes, turning your chicken scratch into searchable text.

TweetAdder!
Build your Twitter account FAST! Of course it takes a little effort to automate everything, but hey, no pain, no gain. Every single feature imaginable BUT you can’t schedule Tweets. Dang!

Ask Customers Their Opinions.
Even if you already have ideas, asking your customer’s opinions helps to build rapport and demonstrates your concern for the customer’s needs. Upon receiving your customer’s input, you can put your ideas into motion. Customers will feel inclusive in your decision-making process, and you’ll win their business!

Create an unbeatable offer.
Not many people can resist an unbeatable offer. By dropping prices for a day, giving away something free, or creating some other promotion that has value to your customers, you can recapture or hold their attention and strengthen your relationship. Exclusive discounts give customers that warm and fuzzy feeling.

Get Personal.
Building customer relationships is an ongoing process, and personal communication strategies (ie., online chats, social media, individual blog responses, personal responses to emails, etc.) open the floor for a level of discussion with your customers that might not happen otherwise. Inclusion is key!

A simple “Thank You” still works.
In doing business, it’s important to say “Thank You for Your Business.” Some crafty business owners choose pens, calendars, t-shirts and other creative memoirs that spark a customer to reconnect with you. (Discounts and free downloads work too!) Even the sorest of customers will soften their hearts when you reach out to them and thank them for their business.

If there is, or was, a problem…FIX IT!
Admitting a mistake or flaw in your business process and then fixing it, shows you care about your customers. People who do business with you want to know that their satisfaction is important to you.  Not to mention, shows your humanity. In fixing the problem, you also gain an excellent opportunity to send an email blast to your mailing list (or create a press release) and create a draw to the information that addresses the issue. Customers will love you for it – It shows you heard them.

March Contest!
“What techy things did you do today?”
Make your list, and tell me your most INTERESTING and UNIQUE techy thing you did to win a prize!(Winner to be announced on the March 27th Show.)
Post on My Facebook Page, Tweet it on Twitter, or call in to the show!

Every 60 Seconds, People are Doing Something Techy!
Global Online Population of 2,095,006,005 equals 30% of World’s Population. A normal Internet user spends around 22% of its time on social networking sites, 21% on searches, 20% on reading content, 19% on emails and communication, 13% on multimedia sites and 5% on online shopping

Global Time Spent Online Per Month is 35,000,000,000 hours (35 Billion) which is equivalent to 3,995,444 years
More than 56% of Social Networking Users have used Social Networking Sites for spying on their partners.

Infographic by go-gulf.com, Sources:

168 Million Emails are sent
694,445 Google Searches
695,000 Facebook Status Updates, 79,364 Wall posts, 510,040 Comments
370,000 Voice Calls on Skype
98,000 Tweets, 320 New Twitter Accounts
20,000 new posts on Tumblr
13,000+ iPhone apps downloaded
13,000 Songs streaming on Pandora
12,000 new ads on Craigslist
6600 photos uploaded to Flickr
1700 Firefox Downloads
600 New Videos on YouTube
100 Questions Asked on Answers.com (40 Answers given on Yahoo Answers)
100 New Linkedin Accounts
70 Domain Names are registered
1500+ Blog Posts, and 60 New Blogs
1 Associated Content article posted (Yahoo Associated Content)

…And Doing Even More Techie Stuff

710 computers are sold worldwide and 555 of these computers are sold with Intel processors
1,820 TB of data is created; that’s enough data to fill up 2.6 million CDs
232 computers around the world get infected by malware
450 Windows 7 Cds are sold worldwide
925 iPhone 4s and 85 iPads are sold worldwide
11 Xbox 360 consoles are sold worldwide
18 Amazon’s Kindle Fire are sold worldwide
4,000 USB devices are sold worldwide
2,500 ink cartridges are sold worldwide
2,100 checkins happen on location-based social networking website foursquare
1.1 million conversations take place via instant messengers
Around 950 purchases are done on eBay, out of which 180 purchases are done using eBay Mobile
12 websites get hacked
1,400 movie discs are rented from Redbox

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Google Street View Privacy Concerns » More info
Beware the Street View Cars! People worldwide are concerned about photographs that show people engaging in activities visible from public property in which they do not wish to be photographed and have published online.In the law of the United States, the general rule (with some exceptions) is that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place, thus implying that Google (and anyone else) is usually free to take photographs in public places.

Google’s response to concerns about public privacy has been a pledge to blur the faces of people who are filmed in Street View photos. (License plates are also blurred.) Is blurring the face enough?

How to Report a Concern (» More from Google)
If you’ve found an image that you would like further blurred, or an image that you believe contains objectionable content, just follow these steps:

1.Locate the image in Street View.
2. Click “Report a problem” in the bottom-left of the image window.
3. Complete the form and click “Submit”
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Facebook’s Facial Recognition System
Facebook users are automatically included in the database, but you are allowed toto choose whether to be identified within your privacy settings settings options. Go to Privacy Settings -> How Tags Work

March is Women’s Month!
This week, celebrating Ursula Burns, the first black woman to be CEO of Fortune 500 company. She is the Chair and CEO of Xerox. Burns earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

In addition to the Xerox board, she is a board director of the American Express Corporation. Burns also provides leadership counsel to community, educational and non-profit organizations including FIRST – (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), National Academy Foundation, MIT, and the U.S. Olympic Committee, among others. She is a founding board director of Change the Equation, which focuses on improving the U.S.’s education system in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Timeline for Business & Fan Pages
On March 30, 2012, all Facebook Pages will get a new design.
Before then, you’ll then enter a curation period where only your Page’s admins can see Timeline, while everyone else including your fans will see the old design. Walk yourself through the features detailed below, and when you’re ready, click the “Publish Now” button atop your Page to start showing off Timeline to everyone. More info here…

Buh Bye Android Market, Now it’s Google Play!
Google’s Android Market has undergone some tremendous changes over the last year or so. What started as just a standalone app store has quickly grown to encompass e-books, music, and videos.

Mac get better Skype with v5.6
Skype 5.6 also brings with it the ability to auto-update when new versions are released (which the Windows version has been able to do since last September), as well a new full-screen app mode that comes seven months after Apple’s Lion update added support for the feature. Better late than never, as they always say.

Throw in a new dynamic layout for video calls that puts the current speaker at the top of the window and the ability to combat background noise by fiddling with Automatic Gain Control, and that’s a wrap for the 5.6 update. Mac users will probably want to jump on this one, and fortunately they can download the new version of Skype – www.skype.com

By the way…
– On Thursday, March 8, Facebook celebrating International Women’s Day – 2012 theme, “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures.”
– Google acquiring Motorola for $12.5 billion…
– Play with Google Plus Photo Editing…

Mentioned on the Show: Jitterbug Phone

Not Sure What to Blog About? Here’s 246 ideas…

125 Free Blog Topics-Corporate and Personal Blogging
http://heidicohen.com/free-blog-topics/

25 Questions for Discovering Good Blog Topics
http://bloggersalchemy.com/good-blog-topics/

96 Free Professional Blog Topics
http://geofflivingston.com/2011/01/27/96-free-professional-blog-topics/

Apps Chris recommends:
Pulse – takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic.
News360 – a next-generation news personalization and aggregation service.
PressReader – will give you access to over 1,700 papers from across the world.

For Election 2012: NY Times has created an app to help you stay on top of what’s going on. Get it here.

List of confirmed Presidential Candidates: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/summary.php

What can we expect in Internet Marketing from the Candidates? (Chris’ Predictions)
Social Media – Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus
Tumblr - Microblogging !  (Like blogs, but not as long.)
Email Autoresponders
Video, and lots of it!
Listening to the Show, or heard the replay? Post your comments and questions below…
or Tweet Me on Twitter!

Airdate: Feb. 7, 2012, on 900AM WURD

Behind our computers we are anybody we want to be. A new confidence comes over us and there’s nothing in our way to connect to the massive universe at our fingertips. We are super-people. We are opinionated. We are invincible! For some, that influx of confidence hinders the balance between Id and Ego, and often manifests as Tweets, Facebook posts and blog topics that could prove embarrassing or fan flames later on.

No worries. You can always turn over a new leaf.

Read the rest and make comments, over on Kris Cain’s blog. Enjoy!