Thanks to a couple of awesome blogs, it’s all beginning to make sense (somewhat), and I can at least keep up with what’s next in the world of Facebook.  Check out these five blogs to see what’s new and upcoming for Facebook.

Mashable

Facebook Blog

InsideFacebook

Social Media Examiner

Mari Smith

If for some reason you’re unable to find the answers that you need after visiting any of these sites, please feel free to post your question below in the comments’ section, and I’ll try my best to answer it for you.  If you have additional Facebook resources, please feel free to add them below in the comments.  Thank you and good luck!

Paula Belyeu, founder of Integrity Virtual Solutions, announced that they have successfully completed the Virtual Event Specialist Certification Program, a 4-week training program that equips Virtual Assistants and Online Professionals with the key skills and tools necessary to offer their clients important Virtual Event Management services.

In these tough economic times, more and more companies and small businesses are choosing to hold Virtual Events rather than the more expensive offline events and conferences. In fact, “Virtual Meetings and Events [will] replace 2.1 million airline seats by 2012” (Gartner, Feb. 2009). 76% of businesses say they had begun using or plan to start using Virtual Events in 2009, while 70% of Corporate Event Organizers predict a reduction in live events in 2010 and forecast significant growth in virtual conferences and webinars. Consequently, it is vital that Virtual Assistants and Online Professionals offer skills in Virtual Event Management to fulfill their clients’ needs.

That is why Integrity Virtual Solutions is excited to be adding Virtual Event Specialist Services to their business, including the setting up and delivering of Tele-events featuring one or many speakers, Webinars and Webcasts, Online Radio Shows, Live Weekly Podcasts and Live Streaming TV Shows.

In VAClassroom’s Virtual Event Specialist Certification Program, Integrity Virtual Solutions learned strategies, best practices, tips and techniques for efficiently and effectively creating great events for their clients using the leading technologies like Instant Teleseminar, GoToWebinar, Camtasia, Ustream and more.

Integrity Virtual Solutions is a Virtual Assistant and Marketing Consulting company offering a wide range of niche services, including Social Media, Online and Relationship Marketing Services and Website Solutions. Having received the Virtual Event Specialist Certification, they are pleased to add key Virtual Event services and tools to their business. This certification also entitles them to ongoing training as technology develops so they will continue to offer quality up-to-date Virtual Event Specialist skills to their clients. For more information, visit Integrity Virtual Solutions.

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Despite the event being pushed back twice, we had a great time!  The Twisted Vine, formerly known as Tony’s Wine and Warehouse, were in the process of moving to a new location.  So the first date that it was scheduled, there were renovation issues so it was rescheduled.  The second date, June 12th, there were inspection issues so it was rescheduled again.  After working out a deal to move it and to get an even better quality of wines plus four additional wines to taste, July 18th was the final slated date.

I was on pins and needles the week leading to the Wine Tasting to make sure that everything was in order.  On Saturday, July 18th, all those that RSVP’ed attended.  Some of the guests already knew each other and some did not, but by the end of the night, it was like we all had known each other forever.  We had a blast learning about different wines, the best types of glasses for wine and the best storage and temperature for each type of wine.  It was extremely informational, and we had many, many laughable moments!  After the wine tasting, we moved the party to Dave and Buster’s to eat, fellowship and celebrate more.  It was an awesome time!

During and after the Wine Tasting, we tried to take pictures of all of the attendees.  I sent “Thank You” cards using Send Out Cards to each attendee.  The Thank You card had a personalized, heartfelt message, and a picture of them from the wine tasting.  I received so many “Thank You” and “I Appreciate You” phone calls and e-mails back about the wine tasting event and the cards as well.

My plan is to always show the ultimate appreciation for my clients – including them in on the celebrations of Integrity Virtual Solutions and letting them know that I appreciate them!  My clients are not entitled to work with me because there are tons of other Virtual Professionals out there, but they chose Integrity Virtual Solutions so I want to always and most importantly, give them the very best service and to show my sincere appreciation.  When you do something “genuinely” good for someone, it makes you feel great.  It’s an awesome feeling!

Once again, thanks to God, my family, friends and clients for a wonderful first year in business!

“Blogging is growing both in the US and especially internationally. Tens of thousands of new WordPress blogs are created every day – by regular bloggers, companies, large media publishers, and many others. In addition, we seeing a trend that’s potentially even bigger than blogging: Publishers are starting to use WordPress as a platform to create all kinds of sites beyond blogs – large and small company sites, online magazines, social networks, travel sites, scrapbooking sites, contact managers, startups, multimedia archives, video sites, sports sites.”

Isn’t this cool? Ten of thousands of blogs being created DAILY! Businesses are using blogging technology to create company websites, social networks, video sites, membership sites and so much more.

The sad reality is that a good portion of these blog sites won’t last more than a year as they are lacking some key success strategies for optimizing and marketing their blogs.

Well now there is a great remedy for that problem….

VAClassroom.com has recently launched a new 2-week mini-course titled, “Blog Marketing Tips, Tools & Tactics”

As I have reviewed course, I see two valuable reasons for taking this program:

1.  This blog marketing mini-course will give you some advanced and current marketing and optimization skills that you can offer as a high value and “in-demand” service to a fast growing base of blog site owners.

2.  Many of you may currently be using a WordPress blogsite as your primary online business presence, which is very smart! This two-week training program will essentially provide you with a blog marketing tune-up and blueprint for your site, so that you can increase your targeted traffic, business visibility and new client leads.

This two-fold purpose will have a strong impact on both your business visibility as well as new income opportunities!

The two-week training program is scheduled to begin on August 10, 2009 and will finish up on August 24th. The program includes both self-paced and live components.

The registration doors are officially OPEN NOW and seats are going fast. They have 60 seats available for this training program.

To get all the details on this important new training program, just click on the link below:

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