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Nov
15

Dating Site Empire Grows!

Filed under: Adult Dating, Dating; Tagged as: 30 somethings, cougar women, cross promotion, dating site, dating sites, Google, lesbian sites, mature singles, promotion efforts, single parents, singleparentdating, social networks, southafrica

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently on my internet dating sites, with a load of new sites & promotion efforts. I also hope cross promotion will entice some new members to join.

I’ve recently launched Mature Singles Dating (I already had a mature dating site – Find Me Mature Singles, but the search phrase “Mature Singles Dating” was more regularly appearing in Google searches), Dating Single Parents & expanded Find Me Dates into the USA, South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, Australia & Canada!

There is also a US Adult Dating site imaginatively titled USAdults Dating ) I built two sites dedicated to 30 somethings & 40 somethings, purchased the domain Find Me Cougar Women to cater for all those 40 something ladies that are looking for hot toyboys & am currently expanding the Find Me Dates site into regions – Find Me Dates Essex for example! There is also a UK Christian Dating site & the possibility of further niche sites in the future.

I’ve set up a Facebook page & a Twitter account for the Find Me Dates Group as I am now calling it & trying to find the time to write articles, build links & add content to the sites & social networks – PHEW! I would also like to give the Gay & Lesbian sites a makeover when I find the time!

The complete list of dating sites is now:

http://www.findmedates.co.uk

http://www.findmematuresingles.co.uk

http://www.findmeadultdates.co.uk

http://www.maturesinglesdating.co.uk

http://www.singleparentdating.co.uk

http://www.findmegaydates.co.uk

http://www.findmelesbiandates.co.uk

http://www.findmedates.co.uk/usa/index.html

http://www.findmedates.co.uk/southafrica/index.html

http://www.findmedates.co.uk/ireland/index.html

http://www.findmedates.co.uk/australia/index.html

http://www.findmechristiandates.co.uk

http://www.30s-dating.co.uk

http://www.40s-dating.co.uk

http://www.usadultsdating.com

http://www.findmecougarwomen.co.uk (Coming Soon!!)

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Nov
13

Monitoring Social Networks – another step towards Big Brother, or a useful tool for employers?

Filed under: Opinion; Tagged as: big brother, Blogs, business work, client business, designers, foul language, freelancers, Google, media comments, relevant content, reputation, social networks, social profiles, web design company

I recently read an article posted by a web design company, explaining how they monitor the use of social media by copywriters, designers and coders, who work with them on projects! It was a fascinating insight into how unthinking use of social media could cost you your job, or even your next one!! The relevant content is re-posted below:

That’s why we monitor what they say online.

How do we do that? Well first we get as many of their social profiles as we can. Usually, we ask for a list of them. We’ve also found that most people won’t provide them all. We then Google search the usernames of the ones they have given us because most people use the same usernames over and over. We also monitor blogs, and check for listings of social networks on those.

We have a system set up to consolidate all their social media comments into one master feed. That master feed can then be browsed directly to see what they’re up to, but that’s a lot of things to read each day. What we do is take the master feed, run it through a filter that creates two sub-feeds based on certain things we think are important to monitor. The first sub-feed is created by running the master list through a keyword & synonym filter that pulls out words related to business – for instance, “client” “business” “work” etc… The second sub-feed has a filter that runs their posts through a check for foul language and words like “sex” “drugs” “drunk” etc… There are hundreds of words in each filter.

Seem a bit ‘big brother’? It probably is – but reputation and client treatment is very important to us.

Here’s the thing: If we can read it and you can lose work with us over it… how many POTENTIAL clients did you lose also?

It’s not only self-employed freelancers, that need be concerned about this. Anyone looking for a job, or already employed, needs to be aware of what they post on the social networks & how deeply employers are prepared to probe to find out about YOU!

I personally find it far too Big Brother for my liking; who hasn’t gone out & had one to many & it’s no wonder if employers expect everybody to be like worker drones, but it pays to be aware that if you post every detail of your behaviour on a social networking site, people can see it who you may rather not know what you got up to last night!!!

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