Business is a difficult aspect of human sick existence.  There are a wide variety of troubling problems associated with running a business, which confront business leaders on a daily basis.  First among these is the fact that in order to stay successful a business, whether it is small or large, must develop new and innovative products for sale.  Secondly, I business must find the best way to alert their customers to these new products as they are developed.

When many bloggers hop on the social media wagon, they fall prey to numerous, widespread untruths on what works or what doesn’t. The result? Not only does their social media fail, but it actually turns readers off – sometimes for good. The trick to good social media for blogging is not to bury readers in tweets or Facebook posts, but develop a reliable, targeted strategy that saves time and maximizes return. To get you started, here are the top seven social media and blogging myths and why they don’t

Right now I am reading a book by Chris Anderson called “Free – The Future of A Radical Price”.  You can find this on iTunes for FREE.  You can also search Google and find it pretty quick. Chris Anderson is Wired magazine’s editor in chief and gives us a glimpse of why the cost of doing business online is falling closer and closer to zero.  I really like how this has helped me with everything I am doing online.  The best way to get people online is to give them something free.  You

This one falls into the category of “I can see some dotted line connections here, maybe but to draw broad conclusions like this is stupid” category. According to a study by Columbia University’s (that’s right, the Ivy league school that is supposed to be a place for really smart people) National Center on Addiction and Drug Abuse, it’s more likely that kids who are active in social networking will use drugs. Gee, I am so glad someone finally put two and two together to get five.

Do you follow numerous people online that you often wish you could mute in regard to specific topics? Unfortunately when it comes to social networking, you either have the option of muting a user altogether or just removing them as a friend or unfollowing them. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mute the topics that they post about which you don’t like? Well now you can with a new social community called Subjot.

Shuush is “a web-based Twitter reader that displays the updates of the people you follow in relation to the frequency of their tweet. It aims to amplify the people that don’t usually get heard, and scale back those with frequent updates.” It gives each user a volume level between 1 and 11 and then sizes their tweets according. In a nutshell, Shuush is a creative way to block out noisy Twitter users so that you have more time to focus on the more quiet tweeters who are often overshadowed.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a study called “Social Networking Sites and Our Lives” based on data collected late in 2010 about social networking sites and their impact in a variety of areas. Normally, I would be cautious of data collected over 6 months ago but after looking over the report it seems that the Internet cycle of “news today and ancient news tomorrow” doesn’t apply as much in this case as usual. In fact, I highly recommend you look it over.

Mobile social networking, or mocial, is when you use your phone to access Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare or any other social networking site. People have been doing it for a couple of years, but now that smartphones and social media apps are so prevalent, it’s become one of the most popular categories in mobile usage. The chart comes from a webinar delivered by comScore titled ‘The State of the U.S. Mobile Advertising Industry and What Lies Ahead” The bars show usage comparisons between