Advice for small businesses on using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, and how to integrate these tools into the marketing and recruiting efforts of your company.

Stop ignoring the social part of social media and start building relationships.

I’m on a social network; you’re on a social network, these days it seems we’re all on at least one social network–like Facebook, Twitter, etc. etc–if not two, three, or even more. To be ...

Bart Perkins is all for using social networks at work, as long as there are policies to address potential pitfalls.

The first social networking website, SixDegrees.com, debuted 15 years ago. Five years later, a site called Friendster.com opened its doors, spawning the social networking craze that led to MySpace ...

That's why, with help from the smart folks at technology publisher O'Reilly Media, we've assembled a glossary of social-networking terms every entrepreneur should know.