As social networking tools start working their way into the everyday business routine, it becomes critically apparent that most of them have come without an 'instruction book'. Reluctant to step on the proverbial land mine, many business owners just let opportunity pass them by.  If you are trying to figure out how to use Social Networking to promote your business here a few links that will help you use Social Networking effectively.

• 5 Facebook uses for businesses
  Facebook offers a bevy of tools for business users, including fan pages. Fan pages provide many of the benefits of a hosted Web site, writes John Jantsch, along with interactive features such as applications, events and sign-up pages.
• Eight Twitter Habits That May Get You Unfollowed or Semi-Followed
  Best practices on Twitter are still developing, and everyone seems to have their own preferences and attitudes about right and wrong on the microblogging service. Standards vary widely depending upon whether one is using Twitter just to keep in touch with friends or is tweeting on behalf of their business or employer. Whatever your purpose, you may have some tweeting habits that encourage others to unfollow or semi-follow you.
• Practice your Twitter pitch
  Forget the elevator pitch you've been practicing. It's too long. Jason Baer argues that as technology changes, communications need to become shorter -- so your pitch now has to fit within 120 characters to accommodate re-tweets.

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