The big news this week is the fact that twitter and linked in are joining forces and allow you to have your tweets be seen on Linked In and your Linked In updates seen on your twitter.  I just hooked this all up myself and I have to say that it works just perfectly!  You can add as many of your twitter accounts as you’d like and you can control each tweet or update with a simple # hashtag  Linked in’s comprehensive learning center explains the entire process in very easy to understand language.  To tweet your update just click the box next to the  Twitter logo and to send your tweet to Linked in add a #li or #in to your tweet.. similar to the way the Facebook application works with the #fb

Check it out and share with me what you think!

I found this video by Perry Belcher on social networking and it is right on Target.

He talks about people wanting to know how you can make money on social networking?  His answer? You don’ t make ANY money on social networking! You make friends and connections with social networking.  Eventually down the road, you probably will “sell” them or someone they know something, but that’s not really the point of social networking.

Perry Equates Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube with acting the same on your social network as you would if you were going to a big party!  You don’t walk around a party you are invited to saying.. “Buy this.. Hire me.. Come to my store..” or if you do, you aren’t making many friends at the party! You try to connect with people at the party. You might look for people that live near you, or that you are in the same live stage with or that you have similar interests with.

Perry Belcher says he doesn’t know how women start up a conversations. Well Perry if you ever read this article I’m going to tell you the big secret! Women usually meet and then start sharing things about themselves looking for commonalities…. kids, church, hobbies, husbands, single, married, divorced, empty nester… If we find something in common then ZOWIE, we are off and running and will be sharing our innermost secrets within minutes!  We also often will compliment one another on something not necessarily to start a conversation or a relationship but we might want information.  An example would be  “.. I just love your earrings.. where did you get them?”  So that woman is flattered that you not only thing she has great taste but now she gets to do something women LOVE to do.. she gets to pass on her shopping expertise!  “OH! Thanks! I got them at this great little boutique over off of Mainstreet. Sally Jo is the owner, tell her Jackie sent you.”

Social networking is just like THAT! You are on Twitter, you just found the worlds best Mexican Restaurant in your town.  You Tweet that.. someone else says oh I have been wanting to try that spot, they love it, they say thanks for the tip, you’ve established you both love Mexican food and you live in the same area.. pretty soon you are meeting at Starbucks and finding out more things you have in common like she says one day.. oh WOW My husbands company has a website and he told me  it never gets any traffic, isn’t that what you do? … well hey “Yes it is .. I can help with that…”  and now you have a friend and a client, but you never made a dime from being on Twitter.

I find myself on Perry Belchers Blog quite a bit!  You might really enjoy his stuff too so visit him here.

Twitter has gotten SO popular of late that it’s an easy target for spammers and worm builders to hit.

I just found this warning post on the Symantec blog. If you get this email (pictured at the left) from any of your friends or followers from Twitter do NOT respond.  The malicious attachment is called Invitation Card.zip

Don’t  Open it!

It’s easy to fake things like this so never NEVER open any attachment on documents that are from an unknown/unverified source.  I usuallly don’t even open attachments from sources I DO know unless they say something about the attachment.. Always better to be safe and cautious in this instance.  If you’ve been on Twitter for very long you’d know that twitter NEVER sends you email.. at least I’ve never gotten anything in the 9 months I’ve been using the Free service.

See the article that’s linked to the graphic to get more of the techy details.

How hard is it to create a Facebook page for my business you ask?

It’s pretty darn easy…  Even a Cave Man could do it!

I have been advising my clients to create Facebook pages for their businesses even if they have no interest in being “ON” FACEBOOK to connect with friends, family, customers and prospects.

I just created a couple of Facebook pages for two of my clients. They only take a few minutes, put your link on one of the top ranking pages in the WORLD, provide an easy way to get the word out and can serve as a blog of sorts if you don’t have time for one of those.

The link helps with Search Engine Optimization, the more hits your website receives helps, the more people that know about your business and share your Facebook page with their Facebook friends helps… Search Engine Optimization is not that hard really, just follow the basics and spread the word.  If you have solid content on your website, provide great service, value and a product people can use, all of these strategies work synergistically to help your SEM and SEO.

Check these two Facebook business pages out.

My favorite hair stylist in the world Bethany Kay Hair She is now in the Sahair  Salon on in Parker Colorado.S. Progress Way Suite #100.  You can reach her at(720) 851-8522. She specializes in hair color, highlights, low lights, hair extensions (Like the movie stars have) and her salon has experts in massage, manicures, pedicures and acrylic nails.

And the people I trust with my car Pride Auto Care They are a full service garage with 3 locations in the Denver Metro area, Centennial, Littleton and Parker. You can also follow Pride on Twitter @PrideAutoCare

Check both of these great places out and tell them Your Web Chick sent you!

To create a Facebook Page click here and get started.  If you have trouble or questions just post them here and I’ll give you a hand!

See what COPYBLOGGER has to say about Facebook in his recent post How Facebook is Gunning for Google

This was my status update from one of the many automated social networking services that are all over the net right now. PING

“I am testing my sms to blog, facebook, myspace & twitter. by ping.fm! awesome service for posting info across platforms.”

You can set up many of your social networking accounts including Facebook, Facebook Pages, Twitter, your blog on WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, myspace, twitter, plaxo, FriendFeed, Flickr, Vox, Brightkite, delicious, yahoo 360, all the instant messengers, HootSuite (A Twitter tracking program) along with a host of others.

You can update from the ping.fm site itself or from your cellphone, Iphone It’s a very inclusive service that seems to work quite well.  Social Networking can be time consuming without one of these very clever Web 2.0 applications.