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Twitter Tips: How to Safely Blend the Personal and the Professional

Twitter can enhance your personal and professional lives, helping you connect more with friends and learn more from colleagues, customers and peers. But can you tweet to both crowds without getting in trouble or offending someone? Here are some good

How to Harness Instinct and Intuition to Make Better Business and Career Decisions

Most IT professionals rely too much on external data to make business and career decisions. Even when a "gut feeling" warns of a bad decision, they often ignore their instincts. In this Q&A, a psychotherapist explains how listening to y

The New Facebook: Three Easy Tips for Sorting Through the Noise

Thanks to Facebook's recent redesign, a massive amount of content continually flows down the middle of your Facebook homepage. How can you keep up with it, never mind find the bits you really want? From Friend Lists to RSS feeds, here are three

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It’s All Lies! How to Address Defamatory Online Content

A Google attorney offers advice for addressing offensive or untrue online content about yourself and explains how you can work effectively with Google to get it removed from its search results.

Professional References: What Do People Really Say About You?

You may be surprised to learn how often professional references speak ill of the job seekers they purport to represent.

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Adobe AIR, Flash Big Hit at Web 2.0 Expo Conference

From Facebook developers who want to better utilize Flash, to Web-based enterprise software vendors building Twitter-like apps with AIR, many products being launched at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco have been based upon Adobe technology.

Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer: Balancing Needs of Users with the Business of Social Networks

Facebook has built out some of the most sophisticated privacy settings for any social network. But CIO asked Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer, are people actually using them? And if they are, what effect does that have on Facebook&#

Why the Financial Future of Social Networks Depends on Solving the Privacy Puzzle

The business models of social networks could rely on an ignorance towards privacy from their users, experts say. But recent research indicates normal Facebook users have begun altering their privacy settings to control the information people (and pot