There’s a firestorm raging on the Internet and Twitter – the ability to make one’s voice heard about what’s happening in the world is indeed powerful.

Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who started the successful video platform YouTube, completed the purchase of Delicious, a web-based article bookmarking site whose value peaked around 2005 (when Yahoo! bought it for $30 million) but has fallen over the last few years.

It’s no secret that the major search engines aggregate business reviews in their algorithms for SERPs. 10Best Solutions works hard to integrate carefully optimized copy in our clients’ websites. However important, optimization can only take your business so far. We can’t ensure your customer enjoys an ideal stay and then shares that positive feedback with the online community. Third-party-site reviews work in conjunction with our optimized copy and influence results, particularly in local search. No reviews (or, even worse, bad reviews) can hurt your overall rankings. What’s a GM to do?

Twitter.com is heading for some changes with a new search feature that is going to crawl posted links on twitter and index them for search. This is going to create a real-time search engine that will allow users to have better access to the live conversations and sites shared on twitter.

Even when the economy is bad, people still want to travel—they may just do it in a more financially viable fashion than in the past years, but people are still looking for hotels, cruises, airplane tickets and great travel destinations. How is your business meeting the financial challenges of your potential customers?

When the Dalai Lama hits the social media scene before your corporate social media strategy is in place, know this: You are so far behind the times, His Holiness is running laps around you in the race to reach the masses.

Did you know that twitter is becoming so popular that companies are outsourcing for a ‘twit’? What is our world coming to? In this fast-paced environment where social media is allowing everyone to connect with everyone, it is becoming vital for businesses to get their brand out on the social networks and interact with their customers. According to an article in 4Hoteliers, several of Generation Y’s top values are:

With the current hype for companies to get involved on social media sites like facebook, twitter, flickr and other interactive websites, traditional methods of connecting with customers can become overlooked. Studies show that e-newsletters and emails are cost-effective marketing tools. Reaching customers through their email inbox is coming back 'in-style,’ so to speak. According to Business Week, e-newsletters are going to be a bigger focus this year.