Sometimes a picture tells the whole story and I just need to get out of the way.

There is a commitment involved in operating a business page on Facebook. Companies who are not prepared to support the effort with content and conversation should think twice before launching it. However, for those who are prepared to invest the energy, Facebook can be a great platform with useful tools for building out a fan base and optimizing your approach. Carnet Williams wrote this great article with 10 tips for Facebook fan pages. Here are some of the highlights:

I hear more questions about how to use Twitter than any other social media marketing platform. Most of the time these come from people who are fairly highly skeptical that it could be of any use at all to them. Fair enough. Here are ten great uses of Twitter (that are also likely to be profitable ones) borrowed from this great article at Socialnomics.com.