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A retweet can increase the pervasiveness of your message across Twitter, while attracting new followers who might be captivated enough by the tweet or link that you shared. While it's hard enough to write a compelling tweet, it's another thing to measure how well it fared in a retweet

Twitter spam derives from people who take advantage of you following them by sending you unwanted direct messages - these people have no sincere interest in your tweets

While the ultimate goal is to give people the resources necessary to find new jobs, Socialtext hopes users will bring the practices of using social software onto their next company

Web-based e-mail such as Google's Gmail can be much cheaper for businesses compared to traditional on-premise e-mail systems, according to a Forrester report. Read about the hybrid models and moving e-mails service to the cloud

One way to ensure that a partnership succeeds is to mind your partner

Erin Griffin, CIO and vice-president of IT at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) and Mitch Davis, CIO of Bowdoin College, met three summers ago at Snowmass, near Aspen, Colo., during a conference on academic computing. They chatted, shared experiences about their respective challenges and traded some ideas. But it didn