Facebook is one of the most popular social networking mediums, and their membership numbers are increasing quickly. It is a great tool for networking; but like many tools available for networking on the web, promotional or marketing activities are frowned upon.

So be careful when using Facebook and do your online marketing activities under the radar, or you might miss out on a powerful tool to boost your business.

In this article, I’ll give you some vital pointers to maximize the power of Facebook.

1) Just like any other social site, be careful what you put in your profile.

You don’t want to be seen as a link spammer. And you don’t want to give away too much personal information either (unless you don’t care that thousands of people may see your profile).

Just be careful with any personal details you put out there for others to see, such as where you live and pictures of your children. You do not want to pick up a stalker, especially when you are networking with strangers.

2) Don’t make the mistake of using your business name as your profile name, as this is against Facebook’s terms of service.

You are allowed to create other Facebook pages to brand your company, products or websites.

3) Respond to any friend requests and carefully send your own invitations. Make them personal and interesting.

Developing a great network is your long-term goal to generate a slow, but steady traffic stream to your websites. Use this tool to your advantage without being pushy or overbearing. Facebooks members hate spamming (who doesn’t?) and will carefully watch out for anything that violates their Terms of Service (TOS).

If you want to see profiles of those from another network, add them as your friends using the “Add to Friends” button. Follow the steps in the Edit tool to fill out any information you want others in your network, or others you accept as friends, to view.

4) Use various applications of Facebook.

Facebook has many applications which would make your networking experience easier or more enjoyable. Examples are applications for adding footage or photograph albums to your profile for others to see.

I’ll discuss two other powerful Facebook applications in a moment.

5) Use Facebook’s “My Questions” application to find out what people are exactly looking for concerning your niche

This is where posters answer certain questions about themselves and what they are looking for on Facebook. They will also list their interests. Use this in your networking activities.

Unless they have expressed an interest in your field, do not invite them to join your friends list. Of course, you can still ask them if you genuinely want to be their friend.

But if you are there to network for your website business, then choose your friends wisely. This is how you are building your list and getting traffic to your website. So you have to manage your time well and eliminate non-productive activities.

Again, be very careful about Facebook’s TOS. Do not go against it because breaking the rules will get you banned.

6) Use “Facebook Discuss.”

It is Facebook’s answer to instant messaging. Chatting, or IM’ing, on Facebook is truly quite easy when you use Facebook Discuss .

Just go to your Facebook page and you can start using Facebook Discuss immediately. At the base of each Facebook page, you may see your Facebook Discuss tools.

The first of the 3 Facebook Discuss tools is the online friends tool. This simply tells you which of your Facebook buddies is online at this time. The next Facebook Discuss tool is notifications that may let you know if you have any new Facebook notifications right from the tool. The 3rd tool in Facebook Discuss is the real discuss tool.

7) Create and join Facebook groups.

Just as they have subscribed to your blog, they’re going to join your Facebook group. So people looking on Facebook for related groups would feel welcome to join.

Facebook groups are viral selling mechanisms. Search Facebook for groups on your topic and related ones. In each of these groups, you can post a message on the group Wall or debate board, or you may use the Post a Link feature to inform the group’s members of your group and your blog.

By promoting your Facebook group at first, rather than promoting your blog, you decrease the chance the group director will remove your message. Any Facebook member can make a group and invite users on their pals list to join.

A form prompts you to give the group a name, passing outline and class. At the following stage, you can customize your group’s available applications, upload a profile photograph and set privacy levels.

A secret group is fascinating for work-related activity, but it will not show up in search results. Choosing a closed group might be the best idea for you to protect your privacy. You will be inspired to choose members from your friends list to join the group.

When you start a group on Facebook, you can invite members to join the group and share their thoughts, viewpoints and consultations about your product, idea or start-up. Invitations to join a Facebook group can be through your Facebook buddies, your Yahoo contacts, etc.

Integrate your application into specific areas of the Facebook profile

A Facebook application can take on a lot of forms; but in order to entirely implement the selection of integration points and deliver a full user experience, it is advised that you integrate your application into specific areas of the Facebook profile.

This permits millions of viewers to see your business everywhere on Facebook and attract potential patrons, who would naturally visit your start-up Internet site.

Remember to follow all Facebooks rules; otherwise, you’ll risk getting banned and your account deleted. This is not what you are looking for. Instead you want to use the group feature to promote your website within Facebooks rules. Do not overstep by thinking you can get around the rules. Use Facebook features to your advantage and you will see an increase in your website traffic.

Its a good improvement over the other micro blogging website. When I joined meme recently and I loved the meme. Its easy to use, easy to post, easy to repost, easy to follow. You have four options for posting. Text message, Image, Video and Music. Text you can type using your every time friend Key Board, Image can uploaded from your computer or you can give a location of the image on the web, Videos presently are posted as YouTube or Vimeo URL, so if you want to post some own video, upload it to the third party Website first and at last Music, you can just submit .mp3 URL and post it. What I liked here very much is reposting the tasty posts.

meme-ing may be the next big thing on the internet of micro blogging, as it has additional features.

Twitter users have a new thing to know similar to twitter. Its “meme” from Yahoo! Presently you can check out the alpha version of the website on http://meme.yahoo.com/ Presently no registrations can be made, interested people can leave their email address, so when it is out with some news, they will email you.

“meme” is know to be common name on web for some kind of content which spreads fast and draws everyones attention. You can learn some more things about mem from the link http://meme.yahoo.com/help/about/

You can see that there is a popular link which shows some of the posts from some of the users, can be called as testers I believe. Check out the link http://meme.yahoo.com/popular/ You can also see that login could be your username and password same of your yahoo user email account or any yahoo user account. Its looks to be almost similar to the microblogging website twitter. The URL’s are also similar to that. Example: http://meme.yahoo.com/Username/ Additional features here looks to be you can add Videos, Music, Photos from third party websites! Imagine you can post videos on a micro blogging website, The videos looks to be played inside itself. No need of pop-ups or visiting the link!

Surprised, Shocked? You should be if you have created an account on an email service which gives an easy way to retrieve or reset your password. Actually what made this to me write is I was able to reset the password of my friends email account.

How to choose which email service is the best?
At present if you see, most of the market of email service is shared by Yahoo Mail service, but I think this place will be occupied by Gmail soon. I hope this it self give you an idea which is the best service.  As Gmail provides more services like Documents, Calendars, and many integrated add-ons like templates for your Email, very soon it is going on to the top Email Service provider. Yahoo is also improved it self very much as compared to before. The site loading is pretty fast and now added Chat service, etc… So yahoo users can stay with yahoo still until it keeps on adding more and more applications when compared to Gmail.

What is that the password could be changed?
Yes, it is very likely and dangerous. There is a very very impotant step I think which has to be taken during creating your own email account. Every email account has a Password retrival/reset question which has to be filled up and you can challenge the question and retrive/reset if you forget the password anytime.

Here, I recommend you to choose a unique question and password which no one can know about.
1. Many sites have questions like Your Date Of birth – Just think of this, today every person can know your date of birth online and can reset your password.. So this is a highly dangerous thing.
2. One more similar question is Mothers Maiden Name .
3. What I suggest is make a question of your own, which you would no discuss with anyone and can remember it.

Are you searching for something? And you got it on some Chinese, Japanese, Russian language or in Hindi and you if you cannot read fast in Hindi. What you would do?
Do you know there are some of the online free products which can translate many languages into your local language?
Yes.. There Free tools are also provided by Internet Giants like Google and Yahoo also. Just click on it for launching the translate page. You can just copy and paste the Matter on to Google or Yahoo translation box and just select the language the text is in and select the language in which language you need to translate and read it. Just this is not the only tool, even if you want view the website in your own language, just enter the URL and view the page in your own language, you can even browse!

You can even upload the document you need to translate and get it translated automatically. As it is an automatic process at least somewhere there could be a mistake, but that can be understood very well. You can even suggest Google if any corrections are there, so that you can help the service provider to improve its service.

What would you do if you want to have make it translated through some person manually? Well this can be done by paying fees to some translator. There are options to solve even this. You can go to website Free Translation and can get quote for it, you can even get this work done by Freelancers available online. And you can have a Professional translation done.

You can even have Multilingual chat translator for chatting internationally and make your business, relationship grow.