New Jersey on Twitter by Profession

If you need ideas on how to follow in New Jersey, check out the people on this New Jersey on Twitter page. The page is updated every few months. Feel free to make suggestions.

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Use Pinterest for Your Small Biz

Pinterest, a social media platform with visual imagery, pins and boards, can be used as to connect with others locally with local images. Bloggers with exciting visual imagery can use it as a way to share eye-catching posts.

Highlights of 2011 on Websites for Small Biz

Highlights of 2011 – how to set up a Twitter profile, how to set up a Facebook business page, responsive web design – think mobile, error 404 pages, slideshows and photo galleries, and SEO (search engine optimization)

Gain Customers with SEO – Case Study

Learn how changing permalinks to keywords, cleaning up your code and a meta description tag might help your search engine rankings. Follow this case study of a site with playgrounds and parks in New Jersey.

Display Information Without Being Overly Geeky

If you have information you want to show about your business, learn ways to display the information and not lose your readers. Presentation is key.

Web News at Rutgers

If social media is a fad, it’s the most profitable and fastest growing fad in marketing history. And some Rutgers department websites have a new look.

Connect Locally with a Twitter Page

How can you connect with people in your area via Twitter? And how can you remember all those people? One way is to set up a page on your blog or website. Or create a Twitter list by geographical area.

10 Noteworthy WordPress Sites

WordPress is used for Newark Mentoring Coalition, Beau Monde restaurant, Brian Burns, Radio Consultant and Programmer, NJ Social Media, River Road Dental, Renova Environmental Services, Ultra Wellness Center, Biotality, Dermatopia and the Scotch Plains Public Library.

Social Media at Rutgers with Greg Jarboe

Social media isn’t just for kids. Monty Python increased sales with social media – a course at Rutgers teaches social media marketing, analytics, legal issues and more. Learn from Greg Jarboe.

Making the Most of a Networking Meeting

If a networking event is only one hour or so long, it is an art form to get what you want from attending. Do you have any suggestions on how to make the most of a networking meeting, especially a short one?

Twitter For New Business

Twitter is useful to businesses in connecting and forming new relationships. Eva Abreu has been writing about some of these business success stories. Has Twitter helped your business or organization? Have you made connections that have helped your business grow?