The following is an article by Deborah Anderson, Social Web Cafe, published on Blazing Minds.

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More and more businesses are using social media to help their businesses grow. Facebook and Twitter are the most used, but there is another site businesses need focus on: Foursquare. Foursquare is a social networking website that allows people to share their location with their friends by checking in at their location. The site has only be around since 2009 but already has over 10 million users. Many people find new businesses by browsing nearby locations and it’s a useful free advertising tool that businesses can use Foursquare to gain more customers.

While many of you may have already figured this out, and still others of you are wondering *why* you would ever need to know this, there are a few of you (i.e. those requiring my assistance) who would like to know how to add an admin to your Facebook Fan Page.

Some of you may be asking *why* anyone would want to hide a friend list. I mean, don’t you want to brag about how many “friends” you have and who you know? Not necessarily. There are two reasons, right off the top of my head that would cause someone to want to hide their friend list…

I was taking a walk down memory lane a few weeks back, as I was perusing through the weekly column that I wrote in the early part of this century. It was called “Web Tips.” (Watch for it, I will post some archives, for fun, on this site. :)) It brought to mind the pre-blog era, when ezines ruled and there was an excitement and newness in the world of the web. In that, there was this new thing called “Search Engine Optimization” (SEO).

I was intrigued by the analytical requirements of SEO. I was fascinated by the ability to reach that first page of search engine results, and the challenge to get there before my competitors!