Even as social media has grown to be a much more widely accepted form of communication among businesses over the years, there is still plenty of data out there depicting the flaws and setbacks that can occur when social networks are used in the business environment. Just as with email or web surfing in general, there are security concerns,

Online job searching can be a daunting task. Keyword queries often return irrelevant results in with desired listings. On the recruiting side, sifting through hundreds or even thousands of candidates is not practical. But Monster.com is working hard to make job search easier. They've been introducing some new innovations for job search - both on the job seeker side and on the recruiter side.

Now that its officially February, those of you who have PPC campaigns that could benefit from increased traffic related to Valentines Day have scant few days left to optimize your campaigns . If youre looking for some insights and.

The folks in charge of science fiction movies that are currently in development may, for the sake of accuracy, want to feature Google's name on any universal translators. The company's continued to move forward in its work with languages by tweaking Google Analytics and a build of Chromium. Let's first talk about what might be viewed as a finished product. Late last week, Google Analytics became available in six more languages (Bulgarian, Catalan, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak,

by Mike Krumboltz Early on Monday morning, a small traffic plane made an emergency landing on the New Jersey Turnpike, about five miles east of Philadelphia. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but the traffic plane did cause an epic backup on the highway. Irony is hard to define but easy to recognize. This was a moment worthy of Alanis. The bizarre landing caused a snarl of Web searches. Immediately, online lookups soared for " emergency plane landing ,

It must be partnership announcement day in the search industry. Earlier this morning Jonathan Allen reported on the new deal between Distilled and SEOMoz . Now, we're getting word of a new partnership between Webtrends and Acronym Media . The two have paired up to provide software solutions to aid search marketers in managing and executing their efforts.

Popular jobs site Monster.com has introduced a new semantic search technology called 6Sense, which it says delivers "precision matches" for job seekers and employers. The technology powers Monster's Power Resume Search, Candidate Spotlight and Seeker Job Search. The technology was developed through Monster's acquisition of Trovix back in 2008. Monster says it utilizes intuitive, concept-based searching,

Search & Social is very happy to announce this year's Search & Social Spring Summit (formerly IM Spring Break) which is to be held in Tampa, FL May 3rd and 4th. If you missed IM Spring Break last year, or even if you attended, you will not want to miss Search & Social Spring Summit 2010 . Search & Social Spring Summit is one of the most cost effective conferences in the search & social media marketing space with a ticket cost of only $525 for the two day event.

Every month, WebProNews has been looking at Twitter's growth in terms of new user registration and number of Tweets. In January, we looked at December's numbers which showed an increase in tweeting frequency, as Twitter surpassed a billion tweets in a month. In January, total tweets sent were the largest on record. However, they increased at 6.34% over December, which is the second lowest increase for the last twelve months. Only August saw a lower rate at -6.2%. Still,

by Josh Bernoff That social media project you are working on. Is it worth it? The iPhone app - is it going to pay off, or just drag your job into the toilet? Our new book Groundswell HEROes is about highly empowered and resourceful operatives (that's you, if you're considering, building, or managing a technology project that touches customers). As we reviewed these projects,