When people use Facebook Photos, most of their time is spent uploading, browsing and tagging photos. Users will be able to add tags with just a couple of clicks from the home page (and other sections of the site) using the same face detection technology that cameras have used for years. Currently this is running as a test. With this new feature, tagging is faster since you don’t need to select a face. It’s already selected for you. All the user has to do is type a name and enter.

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Some example patient networking sites include CaringBridge.org, HealthCentral, PatientsLikeMe, Inspire, CureTogether and Alliance Health Networks. Some patients have also started their own sites on easy social network sites like Ning.

Topics range from Diabetes to Cancer to Lupus and more!

Much helpful information can be found on these networks, including referrals, treatment info, cautions and more. It is important to note that many of the people contributing are obviously patients — and not doctors — so always seek proper medical advice.

This is just one way that social networking is changing the way people communicate — and making the world a better place.

Our staff can also design and manage promotional activities using social media to drive traffic. Typically this includes social outreach programs, commenting, community participation, social bookmarking and more.

In today’s world you cannot just rely on search engines for traffic. Make some noise online with LoudRocket.

As a part of setting up your social media optimization program, we can also assist with online reputation management (ORM) or Search Engine Reputation Management (SERM). This is critical to ensure your image online is protected.

Let us help you:

• Monitor and manage your online reputation
• Proactively engage in social media to drive traffic
• Establish “listening posts” on forums, blogs, and other social networks
• Optimize incoming traffic using hugely popular sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and others
• Establish social bookmarking program

LoudRocket engineers are hard at work making sure your campaign is an explosive success.

PPC bid and budget management

Constant vigilance is required to make sure your bids, ads, and keywords are on the proper trajectory. We manage your budget and funds closely to ensure success.

Keyword research

PPC requires excellence in keyword research. LoudRocket provides you with expert guidance and keyword lists to make sure that you are successful with your online marketing.

Landing pages design and optimization

LoudRocket can design, deploy and optimize landing pages for you. This is key to successful PPC campaigns. Our rocket scientists are hard at work everyday working on PPC and landing pages so you can succeed online.

Graphic design and creative development

Our scientists will create visually stunning graphics for high click through rates (CTR) and conversions.

Campaign analytics and tracking

Online analytics is important for successful online campaigns. Website statistics click through rates, conversion rates cost per lead, and more are provided as a part of our reporting services.

Online media placement

We support multiple advertising networks, search engines, social media, and emerging ad platforms.

Search engine marketing analysis

Search engine marketing is changing. We are up to date with all the latest techniques to optimize your spend.

Though marketing through Facebook should come first, don’t overlook the importance of creating a business Twitter account. Twitter users post around fifty million “tweets” per day, and Twitter is estimated to grow to over 18 million active users by the end of 2010. Using Twitter can help you to network with a larger number of existing and potential customers. You can create a Twitter account for your business here: https://twitter.com/signup

Twitter operates on a structure of fans and followers. Basically, you can “follow” another Twitter user in order to see all of their posted updates. This works both ways, since other people can become “fans” of your business (or personal account), which allows them to keep up with your updates. Even though you may not have any interest in seeing the status updates of your customers, following other Twitter users is part of an effective Twitter marketing strategy. There are three general rules when using Twitter:

• Unless your business is already extremely popular, people will not continue to follow you unless you follow them back.
• People will not follow you if you advertise too much, and will generally not follow you unless you have interesting things to “tweet” on a semi-regular basis.
• People will not follow you if you do not respond to them (if you are ever commented on or asked a question).

Setting Up Your Business Twitter Account

There are a few simple tricks that you can use to make your Twitter account more customer-friendly. Upload a picture of your business logo, so that it is easily recognizable by existing customers. Always link to your website in your Twitter bio, and be sure to fill out the short “description” data. It’s best if you focus on benefits you can provide to your Twitter followers, instead of simply writing a description of your company. When you come up on someone’s “follower” list, your short bio often determines if they will follow you back.

What to Tweet

It’s important that you don’t focus all of your tweets on advertising, since this will usually cause you to lose followers. Instead, take the time to tweet about interesting news or events going on with your company, or information that might appeal to your followers. You can also hold promotional events, during which you give out coupon codes to the first 50 people who send you an @ reply, or use your company’s name as a hashtag.

Also, it’s not possible to stress this enough – Interact with your followers! If one of them posts about a broken laptop, offer some advice about laptop repair. If you receive a question from a fan, answer it as soon as possible. These steps will make you more popular with your followers, and make them more likely to actually read your tweets. In addition to this, interacting with your fans can also help you to gain more followers, expanding your marketing influence.

Automated Twitter Software

Using automated Twitter software has become a common practice among many businesses. However, most of this software operates by mass-following other users that have auto-follow software. Basically, this means that a user has software that automatically follows back anyone who follows them. While this is effective for artificially increasing your “follower” count, it’s not a good way to build high-quality followers.

SEO, also known as search engine optimization, is the key to success for most companies that use the Internet as their main source of income and customers. You need new customers and prospects coming to your website. We make it easy.

Our company manages all of the hard aspects of search engine optimization. Trying to optimize your website’s content to match what is looked for by the search engines can be incredibly difficult. With social media at play now, it is even more complex. Trust our rocket scientists to get your SEO strategy right.

• Social Media Consulting
• Blog Deployment & Management
• Social Monitoring
• Social Interaction
• Social Media Seminars and Training
• Program Management
• Twitter Account Management
• Facebook Fan Page Management
• YouTube Channel Management
• MySpace Page Management
• International Social Media Strategy
• Custom self-service communities
• Social CRM deployment
• Viral videos
• Wikis
• Forums
• WordPress, Joomla, Drupal
• Social Contact Center Plans
• and more noise as needed…

Although there are countless of social networking sites available to take advantage of, not all of them are going to cater to exactly what you need when designing a social networking campaign for your brand. Instead, you may decide it would be better if you designed your own social network from scratch. Not only does this give you more creative control over your social network, but it also allows you to control all of the ad space and a fair amount of the content.

In the proper hands, starting your own social network can be an invaluable choice for your business. There are three ways you can go about designing your own network, all with varying levels of cost, time, and maintenance.

Know what You Want

Before anything, you need to know exactly what you want to get out of your social network. What is the end result? Do you want more customers? Do you want brand recognition? Do you want the network to be profitable on its own? What is my competition? How will I stand out from them? Why would somebody use my service instead of someone else’s network? These are all questions you need to answer before you begin designing the site. Like any campaign, if you “just wing it”, it will likely result in time and money being wasted. Have a clear idea of what your target market is, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan on doing so.

Designing the Site from Scratch

The most obvious choice is to design your social networking site from scratch. If you or your company is capable of designing the site without the help of others, this may be your best option. Designing the site from scratch gives you the freedom to express creativity without having to go through a middleman. If you already have in-house developers, this can also be the cheapest option. Unfortunately, you might find that there is a lot of trial and error involved. Even if it all works in theory, how embarrassing would it be if launch day comes, and the site isn’t working as it should? This could be quite a costly mistake, both in lost advertising revenue, and upholding your image.

Despite this however, using a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) you have virtually no licensing or operating costs, aside from your server and maintenance. Because of this, many companies have successfully chosen to develop their social networking site on their own. If you have confidence in your abilities, this may be your best option.

Hire a Company that Specializes in Social Networking Sites

Believe it or not, there are companies that only develop social media sites for their clients. Not only does this free up your company’s resources, but it also gives you peace of mind in knowing that when your network launches, it will function as it’s supposed to. However all of the clerical work that comes with doing business with a company is involved as well, including dealing with a middleman. If you are not overly interested in the actual design process, and have the money to spend, this may be your best option.

Use an Open-Source Social Networking Solution

If you want to have creative control over your network, but do not have the technical knowhow to design a site from scratch, and you do not have the financial resources to have someone develop for you, consider using an open-source social networking solution. These tend to be very easy to install, and are completely configurable via an easy-to -use control panel. Some of the more popular options include Elgg, mahara, LOVDbyLess, and AROUNDMe.

Use an Commercial Hosted Social Network

If you want the easiest and most reliable path, try a network like Ning.com.