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JMP Community Business Networks

Social Networks are bigger news than pirates on the open seas, according to Hugh Hewitt.  There are 200 million Facebook users and that is expected to grow to 300 million later this year.  Twitter has 10 million users and grew at 1,000% this last year.  The reason for this growth is that social networking in social media is successful.  Be aware and use business networking to your personal and company advantage.

Seven Keys to Business and Personal Success

Remember, technologies emerge and evolve and you can “ride the wave” to your advantage.  Be aware and prepared to use modern tools and tried and true methodologies to your company and personally professional advantage.  Emulate others finding success, such as SAS Institute Dave Thomas and IBM VP for business networking, Sandy Carter.    Research other top companies as your interest and time allows.

Examples of Social and Business Networks

In this presentation we focus mainly on LinkedIn, Twitter, SAS and JMP sites, since they are used personally by professionals.  At the same time, we will talk about other important venues, including our personal favorite, Google Blogspots.  Both the JMP blog and sasComunity are very important players in business social networks.