I noticed your have a meetup.com group of your own, Dave, so I thought I'd ask you: I want to ask a few companies to be sponsors of my meetup group and am curious how to add a sponsor within meetup.com so that everyone who visits the group page sees their logo and can click through to their site? I have seen it on other meetup.com group pages.

This may be a bit obvious, but I'm looking for work and am unclear how I can use LinkedIn to find positions other than searching for HR people in local companies. Can you offer some assistance? Thanks.

I heard from a colleague that Twitter's added profile pictures a la Facebook's timeline photo on the top. Nice, but how do I set it up for my own Twitter profile from within Tweetdeck or similar?

I've spent the last year or two updating and adding to my LinkedIn profile and it has a ton of information about me. But now the job I'm applying for wants a resume from me and I really don't want to create one from scratch. Is there a way to export my profile information from LinkedIn so I can sidestep the problem?

My son installed an app on my iPad and now it's posting updates on my Twitter account when he plays. What the deuce? How can it even do that? More importantly, how can I let him continue playing the game but disable the Twitter access?

I post a lot of photos on Facebook and sometimes want to share them with my Instagram followers. You can automatically mirror an Instagram posting on Facebook, but there's no way to go backwards. Or is there?

I'm enjoying Instagram both because I get to see what my friends are doing and because I can share some of my more artistic photos, but I'm finding that all of a sudden I'm getting random adverts, scams and spam comments added to the photos I post on Instagram. That stinks. What can I do about it, can I block the spammers?

I'm a member of a lot of different Meetup groups and find it an amazing site with lots of cool things to do and groups to join. Except one group, where I find that the events they plan are totally uninteresting to me and I'd like to quit. But I can't figure out how. Is it even possible to resign or leave a Meetup group, and if so, how do I do it?

I've been putting up a few videos on YouTube but am upset to see really crude and obscene comments left by others. I don't want those! On the other hand, I do want good comments, those from people who have questions or just want to share their pleasant opinions. Can I selectively delete comments on my video on YouTube?

I'm in my junior year at college and wanted to ask you what you recommend regarding me signing up for LinkedIn. Should I? And what should I put on my LinkedIn profile?

I'd like to add a few Twitter search links to my Web site. Is that possible, or does Twitter prohibit this sort of thing?

I have a couple of friends who are crazy about Instagram but when I downloaded it, I couldn't see how to use it and why they think it's so interesting. Can you take me through the steps needed to take and post a photo in Instagram, Dave, then perhaps offer some tips on how to get followers of my own?

I'm supposed to help manage the discussion in an upcoming twitterchat and am not very enthused about it because I don't see how either of my existing Twitter clients is going to hep me survive the hundreds of tweets coming in second by second. I've heard of Tweetgrid but it's confusing as heck. Can you recommend a default configuration for Tweetgrid?

I just read about a security breach at LinkedIn that's apparently exposed millions of passwords to hackers. That's a problem, to say the least. How do I quickly go and change my password to ensure that no-one hacks into my LinkedIn account?

I have to admit, I usually spend time on Facebook, but as I'm looking for a job, I have updated my LinkedIn profile and spend time on there digging around and seeking positions. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to see if it's doing any good. That is, can I gauge whether people are actually finding me in searches they're doing on LinkedIn?

A guest submission by my friend Bruce Sallan.

Learning all the tools available in Social Media can be a challenge. I actually hired a tutor when I began my SoMe journey. It helped me get over my middle-aged resistance to learning new things. Now, I'm addicted to the pleasures, values, and camaraderie of Social Media. I've especially enjoyed participated in Tweet Chats, aka Twitter Parties.

I began with the granddaddy of them all, #blogchat, hosted and created by the wonderful and ever-so-gracious @MackCollier. Doing #blogchat as your first tweet chat is sort of like climbing Mt. Everest when you're in the mood for a nice hike. #Blogchat has had upwards of 5,000 tweets during its Sunday hour from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., PST. For some perspective, 3,600 tweets would be one per second.

I wanna ask you about LinkedIn. What's the best practice to fill out the CURRENT POSITION Field when you are not working and looking for a job?

I've been starting to upload videos of my daughter singing and playing guitar and we've hit a limit of 15 minutes for the entire video on YouTube. But I've seen videos on YouTube that are longer, including a conference talk you gave that's an hour long! What's the secret of being able to post longer videos on YouTube?

I really like the set of social media buttons you have on the pages of your AskDaveTaylor site, Dave. What are they, and how did you add them to your site? In particular, a lot of the ones I've looked at have uninteresting sites like Delicious and Reddit, but don't yet support the new Google Plus "+1" button, so yours is really slick. What's the story?

I set up my YouTube account years ago and now that I am more serious about producing videos for my cooking classes, I'd really like to update the profile picture to be my company logo. How can I update my profile photo on YouTube, Dave?

I've spent so much time playing around in Facebook that I have neglected to stay present for my colleagues and associates on LinkedIn. I want to remedy that, particularly now that I am writing about resumes, job interviews, and other career related topics. Hence my question: can I post updates to LinkedIn that include embedded URLs to my blog articles?

I want to clean up my LinkedIn connections list and found your article on how to delete contacts in LinkedIn, but it's out of date, Dave. There's no "Connections" option for me to click on. Can you update it or at least let me know how to proceed?

I just read about a security breach at LinkedIn that's apparently exposed millions of passwords to hackers. That's a problem, to say the least. How do I quickly go and change my password to ensure that no-one hacks into my LinkedIn account?

I have to admit, I usually spend time on Facebook, but as I'm looking for a job, I have updated my LinkedIn profile and spend time on there digging around and seeking positions. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to see if it's doing any good. That is, can I gauge whether people are actually finding me in searches they're doing on LinkedIn?

A guest submission by my friend Bruce Sallan.

Learning all the tools available in Social Media can be a challenge. I actually hired a tutor when I began my SoMe journey. It helped me get over my middle-aged resistance to learning new things. Now, I'm addicted to the pleasures, values, and camaraderie of Social Media. I've especially enjoyed participated in Tweet Chats, aka Twitter Parties.

I began with the granddaddy of them all, #blogchat, hosted and created by the wonderful and ever-so-gracious @MackCollier. Doing #blogchat as your first tweet chat is sort of like climbing Mt. Everest when you're in the mood for a nice hike. #Blogchat has had upwards of 5,000 tweets during its Sunday hour from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., PST. For some perspective, 3,600 tweets would be one per second.

I wanna ask you about LinkedIn. What's the best practice to fill out the CURRENT POSITION Field when you are not working and looking for a job?

I've been starting to upload videos of my daughter singing and playing guitar and we've hit a limit of 15 minutes for the entire video on YouTube. But I've seen videos on YouTube that are longer, including a conference talk you gave that's an hour long! What's the secret of being able to post longer videos on YouTube?

I really like the set of social media buttons you have on the pages of your AskDaveTaylor site, Dave. What are they, and how did you add them to your site? In particular, a lot of the ones I've looked at have uninteresting sites like Delicious and Reddit, but don't yet support the new Google Plus "+1" button, so yours is really slick. What's the story?

I set up my YouTube account years ago and now that I am more serious about producing videos for my cooking classes, I'd really like to update the profile picture to be my company logo. How can I update my profile photo on YouTube, Dave?

I've spent so much time playing around in Facebook that I have neglected to stay present for my colleagues and associates on LinkedIn. I want to remedy that, particularly now that I am writing about resumes, job interviews, and other career related topics. Hence my question: can I post updates to LinkedIn that include embedded URLs to my blog articles?

I want to clean up my LinkedIn connections list and found your article on how to delete contacts in LinkedIn, but it's out of date, Dave. There's no "Connections" option for me to click on. Can you update it or at least let me know how to proceed?

This is a guest post by Klaus Holzapfel of conceptbakery, a social media marketing company with offices in Germany and the United States.

The Facebook Like button is now at the forefront of privacy rights conversations in Germany, following much discussion of Google Analytics and pixelated homes on Google's Streetview and Microsoft's Streetside. A post on Mashable from August 19 mentioned that a German data protection commissioner is planning to ban the Facebook Like button. Since then, commissioners in three other German states have taken the same position.

I'm a long-time user of LinkedIn and have found it very useful for finding both jobs and contacts in the industry. Now I need to get a resume together for a possible job and am wondering if there's any tool available that can pull all my LinkedIn career and job data and transform it into a PDF-format resume I can email someone?

I'm just getting into Twitter and see that lots of people upload photographs to the site. Cool, but since I don't have a smartphone, am I excluded, or i there a way to upload photos from the twitter.com site too?

I read your article yesterday about how to set up Picasa [soon to be renamed "Google Photos"] so you can email a photo to your Picasa account, but you sort of skipped the step of how to actually send that message from the phone. When I go to send a message, there's never an "add attachment" or "add photo" button on my iPhone. Am I missing something?

My friends are claiming that they signed up for Foursquare before I did, and I say Feh! How can I quickly figure out my Foursquare account number so I can prove to them I was there first?

I'm a huge fan of YouTube and find funny videos there all the time. I email links to my friends, sure, but sometimes I want to actually embed the videos themselves on my blog. Is there some way to do that? Used to be it was pretty easy to figure out...

I've been having fun making weird videos and uploading them to YouTube. What I really want to do, though, is share them with my friends on Twitter and Facebook. What's the easiest way to share a YouTube video on Facebook?

Okay, I made a short video of my dog chasing his tail and want to upload it to YouTube so I can get millions of views and maybe get a guest shot on Conan or Tosh2.0. How do I upload my movie to YouTube?

We're getting into social media a bit late and just found out that someone else has registered our trademarked product name as their Twitter handle. They're not using the account, but they also aren't responding to queries from us about switching ownership. We don't want to pay anything - after all, it's our registered trademark! - but will cover a minimal fee. What can we do?

A colleague of mine had a very weird thing happen yesterday: he checked in to a restaurant just before a lunch meeting, and some random person called the restaurand and asked to be connected to him. He had no idea who it was and it's set off quite a firestorm in the office about whether anyone in the company should use geolocation checkin games. I think it's a bit overblown, but want to know, how can I see who are my Foursquare friends and remove those I don't know?

I dig Twitter and use it a lot to stay in touch with friends and chat, but recently I've been noticing that if I mention certain words or phrases that I get "@" replies from people I don't know, generally trying to sell me things or convince me to visit their Web site. I don't want this spammy pollution in my twitterstream. Can I report them as spammers if I'm using the Twitter app on my iPhone?

After switching over my Facebook account to always use an encrypted connection [see Connect to Facebook Securely with SSL] I would like to do the same with other sites I visit. Gmail supports it [see Secure Gmail Connection], but what about Twitter? Is there some way to connect to Twitter with a secure, encrypted SSL connection?

I run a small company and I have found that social media is fantastic for generating interest in my business. But someone told me that most of the online population doesn't speak English as their first language. I only speak English and my marketing budget amounts to two moths and a ball of pocket fluff. So tell me - how can I use Twitter and Facebook to target foreign markets?

Apparently now that Twitter is using OAuth, I can change the password to my Twitter account and the apps retain access. That's pretty alarming! Is there some way to at least know which applications have this level of access to my Twitter account?

I'm an active Twitter user (twitterer?) and would like to have my tweets / twitter messages show up on LinkedIn as my status updates. I've seen other people set this up but can't identify what service they use for this. Can you help me out?

I've got a real problem, Dave. My college-age son had a party in my house while my younger children and I were on a trip and now I find that my house is a venue in Foursquare called "Party House". I don't want that. At all! How can I delete my house as a Foursquare venue??

I signed up for Google Buzz along with everyone else, but every time I look at it in my Gmail account, it's just status updates from Twitter. If I wanted to follow these people on Twitter, I'd do so. I want to get rid of Google Buzz, or at least not have it show up in my Gmail screen. How can I do that?

A friend and I were having a beer when her phone beeped: it was a direct message she'd received on Twitter. Cool. How did she set that up and how can I do the same on my iPhone?

Based on your enthusiasm for Foursquare, I have been getting more into it and am connecting with a variety of different people in my community. Generally it's good fun and since I only check in when I am in a public setting, I have no worries about privacy with people I don't know. Except there's this one guy who uses his checkins to advertise his workshops incessantly and it's annoying to get those alerts. I want to unfriend him. But how can I do that in Foursquare?

I went to check in to a local bar in Foursquare and was rather surprised to find that it existed twice in their database as a venue. That can't be good. Is there some way to clean that up or otherwise fix things so that there's one venue?

I'm a skeptic. Yup, that's me. I have heard that some people are getting paid to send out an occasional sponsored or advertising tweet, but I can't believe it. I mean, really? If so, what's involved and, well, how do I get involved?

I've just started getting into lists on Twitter and am stuck: I accidentally added someone new on the wrong Twitter list and don't know how to edit it. How do I change Twitter list members?

I think that Twitter is pretty darn cool and would really like to be able to add a Twitter search box to my web site. In fact, I'd love to have some buttons that are pre-defined searches, like for the name of the latest movie in the theater or a celebrity too. Are those possible? I haven't seen anyone do anything like that before...

Hi Dave. I wanted to show my 12th grade a documentary about Fermat's Last Theorem. I was planning to send them the link via e-mail, and have them watch it at home. But the link (below) has a porn site listed under "related videos", so I don't feel that I can send it to them.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8269328330690408516

Do you know of a way for me to download that video onto my computer?

I'm trying to be efficient with my time, Dave, but somehow I end up forgetting about Twitter as I work on LinkedIn and play on Facebook. I know that I'm supposed to be involved in all the big social networks, but who has the time? Is there some way that status updates from LinkedIn can at least show up in my Twitter account [ed: "twitterstream" is what we hardcore folk call it] without me having to do anything special?

Finally I have received a Google Wave invitation and am hooked up with what some people are saying is the Next Big Thing in online project management. I don't fully get it yet, but I do want to hook up a few colleagues and try it out. How do I invite others to Google Wave?

A number of my friends and business colleagues use Skype and I'd like to be able to chat with them while traveling, but I don't know their Skype account names. Is there some directory of Skype names and/or some best practices about how to search for someone in the Skype universe?

I've been hearing that all the follow Friday stuff is passé and that we should instead be creating Twitter lists. Um, okay, but I don't see how to do that in Seesmic Desktop, which is how I interact with Twitter. What's the big deal with these lists and how can I create one?

I'm wondering what's the easiest way to connect to someone I've met at a conference when I get back to my office and want to use LinkedIn? Some folk seem to use Facebook, but I'm a recruiter and LinkedIn is my favorite. Tips? Suggestions?

I'm becoming a Twitter power user and find it a pretty simple way to broadcast information about my upcoming product sales and related. Problem is, I'm also curious about what information can be gleaned from the shortened URLs I have to use, including ideally some Google Analytics-like geographic data. Is that even possible?

I've been reading all of your earlier articles about how to work with Apple's iPhoto (see iPhoto help) but what I haven't seen is a piece about how to publish photos from iPhoto directly onto Facebook with vast amounts of hassles. Is that doable? If so, how? Thanks, Dave!

I heard on the news today that my favorite social network, Twitter, is being plagued by what they called a "denial of service attack". What on Earth is that? They're forced to not actually get service and it's an attack? I mean, I've been to restaurants where I experience a denial of service, but how can something like that affect Twitter or Facebook or whatever?

On the advice of a colleague, I grabbed a whole bunch of Twitter account IDs "for the future". Secretly, I was hoping I could sell some to large corporate vendors, but in retrospect that seems stupid and I just want to push them back into the pool of available IDs. How do I cancel or delete a Twitter account, though?

Rather to my surprise, I found out through a stray email that my son had signed up for a MySpace account. He's 11 and he doesn't have permission to do so. As part of his punishment I am going to delete his account and since it's just a few days old, I'm wondering if I can simply ignore it and have it go away or if there's something special I need to do?

Thanks to your articles and some experimentation on my part, I have figured out how to make videos on my new Apple iPhone 3GS. My question is: how do I upload these videos directly to YouTube as I keep reading you can do?

I've been noticing over time that I have a lot of subscribers to my content on Friendfeed. That's cool, but now that I look at the service, there's a lot it can aggregate, including the items I mark as shared in Google Reader, my RSS reader of choice. What I can't figure out is how to tie the two together!

I still have a few old friends who prefer AIM so I use it as one of my instant messenger options (though through Adium, not the dismal AIM application from AOL). Problem is, I sporadically get IM messages from porn site owners and other dopes. Blech! How do I block all of these jerks so the only time I ever hear from AIM is when it's one of my friends?

I kind of hate to admit it, but I've been using my son's Skype account on my Mac because I can't figure out how to sign up for a new one. You're a master of technology, however, Dave, so can you show me how to easily get a new Skype account?

Now that I have some songs available through the iTunes Music Store [ed: it's now just the "iTunes Store" since it's more than just music. :-) ] I want to link to what I have from my MySpace profile. I don't want to have a per-song or, planning for the future, per CD link, I want to link to all the results people get from searching for my name in the Store. Can that be done?

In previous blog entries (see How do I sponsor searches on Google? and Advertising cannot be your only online marketing channel), I've talked about how to use paid services to promote your business online, focusing specifically on Google Adwords and how it lets your company appear as "sponsored" results on a search page. Then we talked last week about the distressingly ephemeral nature of paid advertising and explored examples of how mindshare rapidly declines once you stop paying.

The solution to the dilemma, the path to sustained visibility in the online world, is to understand the gestalt of Google, if you will, the core concept behind modern Internet search engines. Once you understand how they work, you'll see how you can rethink your online presence to maximize results without paying the proverbial arm and a leg.

In a word: content.

I've been uploading photos to the Flickr photo service for quite a while and just realized today that while most of my Flickr pals have neat little icons, I have this mundane gray not-even-smiley face icon. How do I upload a picture of myself?

I'm going just a bit crazy with MySpace. The latest is that whenever I log in, I have dozens of friend requests, but they're all from spammers or weirdoes. Is there some way to make it harder for the automated spam tools to send friend requests? Please?

I am just getting started on Twitter. Would you explain what are hash tags, how do they work and how are they used?

I have been inspired by some of the evening meetings I've attended, both those that are 'meetups' and those that are more informal. I want to host one of my own but don't know how to start. Can you give me some tips to get started, Dave?

Social Media Networks like Facebook and LinkedIn offer businesses new channels through which to conduct marketing and advertising. But how effective are these, really? Ask any SEO or online marketing expert and they will tell you that it's an organic process and it takes time to develop real results. The key is to have good content that turns people into repeat visitors to your website - eventually they will buy.

Really? "If you build it they will come?"

I've been getting the hang of LinkedIn as a more professional alternative to Facebook and am a bit baffled: is there some sort of best practice to quickly evaluate a potential link when I don't recognize their name?

We're living in a noisy world. There a millions of blogs, and photos and radio shows and podcasts and websites, and... whew! There's a lot of stuff out there. So if you're just starting out, or even if you've been doing it for awhile, you probably wonder how you're going to get noticed.

The bad news is if it was easy, you'd be noticed already. The good news is that there's never been a greater time in the history of the world, than right now, to effectively get noticed without having to spend millions on advertising.

Dave, is a retweet where you redo a message or retweet someone else's message in Twitter? Also, how do you do that...?

I've just recently signed up for orkut and am wondering if the "friend requests" from people I have never bumped into before are legit or not. I've sent you the invite: can you tell me how to know whether it's a phishing attempt before I actually click on a link?

I'm head of marketing for our company and our younger employees keep telling me that it's critical we monitor the online social networks for information about our company and products. I think they're too self-absorbed and that the online world is such a tiny percentage of our customer base that it's safely ignored. What's your opinion?

I've started to get involved with Twitter based on watching your tweets and am enthused, but anxious about people I don't know reading about what I'm doing. So I want to protect my Twitter updates. Is that a good idea? How do I do it?

I've been building a reference site for use inside my company and am wondering if there's any way to hack LinkedIn so that we can have a LinkedIn search box for individuals who work in our company? Yeah, we should have a company directory, but the boss is a huge LinkedIn fan...

I get all sorts of idiotic comments on my MySpace account and am wondering if there's a way to tweak things so that comments have to be approved before they show up on my account?

I've been on LinkedIn for quite a while but only recently jumped into Facebook and, wow, Facebook has so many cool capabilities that make it more interesting! The one that really stands out, though, is that I really want to connect my weblog to my LinkedIn account. Is there ANY way to do that, Dave?

Hey Dave. I wanna search MySpace to find some of my friends at my high school. Is there some way to do that, or do I need to get their MySpace contact info from them directly?

I'm housebound due to an illness, but work half-time anyway. The job I have now is okay, but I really want to step up to something better, which I know I can handle. Problem is, I feel like I really need to learn more about how to use modern tools like LinkedIn but don't know how to proceed. Any suggestions?

Stupid MySpace and its stupid applications, I now am drowning in invitations to sign up for goofy applications that are supposed to make my experience in MySpace better. Duh, it's about my friends, not these apps. How do I stop these MySpace applications from taking over my experience there?

I have seen a lot of people automatically follow people who follow them on Twitter. That's very cool. How do they do it?

I have been using Twhirl as my Twitter client and am pretty happy with it, but I'm baffled by one thing: recently someone sent me an email that included a URL on Twitter that took me to a page that had just a single tweet on it. How did they do that?

Now that I've learned about Twitter, I want to start monitoring what people are saying about both my company products and those of my competitors. Is there some decent tool to do this? Twitter certainly doesn't have that capability!

I now have two Twitter accounts, one for work and one for my personal updates and friends. Dunno if I'm supposed to do this, but it works for me and my friends. My question: I heard that there's a way in Twhirl to have both account windows open simultaneously. How do I do that?

Now that I have built up a pretty good network on LinkedIn, I would like to send out a few quick questions now and then, soliciting feedback and input from the group. How do I do that on LinkedIn?

I don't really see the benefit of Twitter, personally, but I know that people are occasionally talking about my company. How can I keep track of discussions on Twitter without having to follow thousands of people?

I'm an HR executive and I've very recently started using LinkedIn and found it very interesting and helpful but I'm having problems regarding how to use LinkedIn when it comes to searching for the right people, e.g. I'm particularly searching for managers, or asst.managers in IT industry. How do i locate them on LinkedIn?

I'm still falling down the well of Twitter, or is that falling into the Twitterverse? Anyway, I'd like to have a couple of different profile photos that I can switch between. Is this possible?

Hey, Dave! Is there any way to find people that twitter in a local area - like your buds in Colorado? I'd love to find someone to have coffee with occasionally here in Key West.

I read your earlier article about how to change your default MySpace profile photo, but the suggestions did not help me at all. The way your instructions were explained, they did not flow with the current MySpace screens in either "classic" or "new" mode. Can you post an updated tutorial, please?

I've signed up for Twitter and am having lots of fun with it, but every time I add someone new, all of their Tweets end up going to my cellphone as SMS text messages. This is bad, and it's driving me crazy. Is there some easy way to fix this?

All of a sudden I'm hearing lots of people talking about "reputation management" and "online reputation management". What the heck are they talking about and how does it different from what we've all been doing, trying to put our best foot forward in the digital universe?

I got a MySpace invitation that included a comment from the person inviting me to be friends with them and it's very cool. Very Facebook-esque. How the heck did they do that?

Now, the big question: do you need to do this for your business to be more successful as we move into 2008 and beyond?

You know you do.

The problem is, who do you turn to for trustworthy, accurate and honest answers, advice that can help you rise above the noise of your marketplace?

And how the heck can you get a free holiday in Hawaii out of the deal?

My answer to you: The Aloha Social Media Summit.

Help! I accidentally pressed the Latino MySpace button and changed my MySpace to Spanish! Now I can't change it back to English. Can you please help me change it back to English mode? Gracias!

I've been finding it tedious to go to Flickr to upload photos and am wondering if there's any way I can just email the photos to Flickr and have them automatically show up in my Flickr stream?

I read your article about how to create a nice MySpace "add me" button on my Web site and am wondering, is it possible to create those buttons, but for Message Me and Block Me?

As you might well know, I'm happy to be a faculty member at Stompernet, a completely new idea in the world of Internet Marketing, a consortium of top marketers pooling their knowledge and expertise to create a single place where you can learn about search engine optimization, search engine marketing, ecommerce, keyword research, proven techniques to improve your PPC campaigns and close rates on your sales pages, leveraging blogs and podcasts for marketing, and even discuss and compare notes about such mundane topics as shopping carts, web hosting companies, designers, and copywriters...

Some of my friends on Facebook have tweaked things so that they can have their Facebook status automatically updated when they send out a new Tweet on Twitter. How the heck do they do that?

I'm continuing to dive into the world of Twitter and am a bit baffled by one thing: is there some way that I can see all replies to my messages rather than just those from people I'm following? How about even seeing the replies from the people I follow that they send to other people? Don't know if it's normal, but I follow only a fraction of the people that are following me on Twitter.

I hate to check my mailbox on MySpace because there are a half-dozen people who seem to have some spamming tool or something and send me dozens of "Request to Approve Comment" messages. What the heck is up with that and how do I block these people?

Okay, so I hear my friends talking endlessly about Twitter and figure it might be time for me to jump on the wagon too, however begrudgingly. How do I get started, Dave?

How do i send an event invite on MySpace, with a normal MySpace account?

I went on the link on how to add a friend on MySpace. I have never had a problem before but there is one profile of these guys I went to high school with that I want to add, but I have searched their page and can't find an "add as friend" link. They don't have the box of icons like most profiles do. Any ideas?

I just got involved in a charity event we're planning for later in 2008 and one component of it is going to be a series of videos we release through YouTube. Is there some way that people can find out about them without us having to send out a never-ending series of press releases or updates?

I think I'm a member of every social network known to man at this point, and my two favorites remain Facebook and MySpace, believe it or not. My question: is there any way in MySpace to add Twitter-like "status" messages to my profile? Y'know, the "DarlingLil is typing in her PJs" or "Mike is wondering if the ice cream truck will drive past"?

Probably like a lot of people, I'm a member of what seems like dozens of social and professional networking sites. Of them, my favorite remains LinkedIn. But I can't add a photo and don't see photos from others. Surely there's a way for me to add a picture to my LinkedIn profile?

A pal just emailed me to complain that I have a bunch of deleted friends in my MySpace friends list. Not good. How do I zap 'em so that I only have friends who are still active members of the MySpace community?

Not sure whether this is a friend who I, um, don't remember or not, but I think I got the first spam comment on a blog entry on my MySpace weblog. Blech. Heard anything about this, Dave, and can you suggest a way for me to minimize the impact as, I'm sure, it gets worse?

Did MySpace change things so you can't modify your default picture or photograph? I changed it once before, but now I can't figure out how to update my default photo. Help!

On my friend's myspace profiles they have a color box around their comments and the text is in diffent colour too. I've asked them how they did it but they say they forgot. so how do you do it.

I have lots of MySpace friends and know that a bulletin is supposedly an efficient method of sending a message to 'em all at once. But I'm not entirely sure how to send a bulletin, and don't want to look like a n00b by doing something wrong. Can you take me through the steps, please?

Ok on Myspace, when i'm online, its not showing that i am, is there a way to change that setting so it will show my friends when i'm online??

I keep getting stupid and spammy comments on my MySpace profile and I have heard that there's some way you can actually have them all queue and manually approve them? That sounds awesome. Howzit done, Dave?

Dave, there are a bunch of new comments on my MySpace profile that link to "msplinks.com", even though they look like they're from different people. Is this some sort of unified attack on my profile or what?

I was reading a blogger blog today and saw that they had a really neat button labeled "Add me as a MySpace friend!" and when I clicked on it, it took me directly to the 'confirm you really want to be friends' page, rather than the more common, but less useful, link to my profile. I'd love to have more MySpace friends, so if you can tell me how to make this sort of button, it'd be most appreciated!!

I'm quite new to myspace and still not sure how to fully work it, I'm asking about how to upload pictures into your blogs? it doesnt seem to work for me?

Hey Dave! how do i convert an mp3 or a song to a URL. I need to know so I can upload songs into a music playlist for myspace. plleeeeaseee help me!! Thanks ;)

I'm confused. I've been using MySpace for a long time and have always had comments just show up, but suddenly I got a message that was a "Request to Approve Comment". What the heck does it mean, and what's special about this particular comment?

I've been trying various proxy servers to get to MySpace from school and sometimes they work for a while but other times they don't work at all because they're banned or blocked. What is a MySpace proxy server, how does it work and why would they work for a while and then stop?

My buddies keep telling me how many thousands of groups there are on MySpace and I know how to get to the groups area, but don't know how to find cool groups and join them. For example, I'm interested in the Hawaiian reggae scene: how do I find out if there are any groups on that?

Oh this drives me CRAZY! Someone's left a comment for me on my MySpace profile, a comment that's some terrible spam that I really hate, but I can't seem to delete it. Every time I click on the "Delete This Comment" link, the page refreshes, but the comment's still there! AUGH! How do I delete this $#@$#@ thing?

How do you change the drink/smoke detail on your myspace?? It's impossible to find and change it.

MySpace is really starting to suck. The latest problem I'm finding is that people are leaving me comments that are just weird, and seem like some sort of stupid advert for their own businesses, but they don't make sense. Do these people really think they're going to get customers from someone reading the comments on my profile?

How do I make my myspace public? I go to account settings and there is no option of making my myspace public.. what do i do?

How do you delete your school on myspace? I just realized that I have too much personally identifiable information on my profile and want to clean things up a bit...

I seem to have a high-profile MySpace account, I guess, because I get a lot of comments and friend requests. Problem is, they all end up in my regular work mailbox, which is bad. I seem to recall there's a way to turn off notifications of MySpace events, but I have no clue how to do so. Help!?

I joined a group on MySpace and really don't want to be part of the group any more, but I can't figure out how to quit or unsubscribe from the group. Can you enlighten me, please?

I'm just getting started with MySpace and see all these people leaving comments on my profile that include cool pictures. I want to do that too. How do I add pictures or photographs as comments on other people's MySpace profiles?

I feel like a loser asking u this but its driving me crazy.. i have just opened up a MySpace group for the local club in my area and i cant work out how u can show ur members on the home page.. all i have is a blank box and then a link to "view more members..." if u could help it would mean the world to me.. thank you

Is there a way I can use Web phenomena such as MySpace and YouTube to get more clicks on my affiliate site?

How do I add more than one school to MySpace under the "Visit My School Home Page"? I remember adding the current school when I 1st got this account but now I can't find out where to add more schools to it. Thank you for your help

I am a recent new user to MySpace and I've asked this question many times to various sources, including MySpace without a response from anyone. My question is this: What function on Myspace do I use to send a new friend request to someone that I see on MySpace? Here are what I assume are the choices, but which one do I use, Invite, Send Message, Add to Friends, Add to Favorites, or Friend Requests?

I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that this probably is a pretty dumb question, since so many people are successfully using MySpace so I'll understand if you don't respond.

I finally figured out how to create a new group on MySpace and now I want to pimp it out with some bling. To start, how can I change the background color of the page? I'll have more questions soon, so don't go anywhere! :-)

This is really weird: when I check my inbox on MySpace, it tells me that I have three messages, but it doesn't show them to me. I see listing 1-3 of 3, but it's blank. What's up with that, Dave?

I'm pretty confused: I just got what looks like an email from MySpace that says "Jason" has sent me a song, but it points me to a completely different Web site. I attach the message: is it legit or are they phishing for my MySpace account information?

Now that I have a few dozen of my friends connected to me on myspace, how do I easily send them all messages about stuff that's going on in my life? Is there some sort of mail capability I can't find?

I just recently figured out how to add a song to my MySpace Profile, but now I want to figure out how to have the music I've selected automatically start playing when someone views my profile. is that even possible with the MySpace Stand Alone Player?

I am a new myspace user. I know what a blog is and how to create one. What I don't know is what the implications of "subscribing to the blog". What does this mean exactly, for the subscriber and subscribee. Thanks!!

I copy and pasted a myspace layout for my profile. I think other people can see the new layout but I can't see it my self when I sign in. Why is that? Is it because I have a mac?

I was reading through some of your myspace help and it's great. thanks so much for letting me tweak my background without having to slap a bunch of stupid adverts on for your site! :) While I was reading your profile on myspace [dave's profile on myspace], I noticed you had a nice effect with some text that you somehow put into a box. How did you do that??

I'm a LinkedIn enthusiast and find it a terrific tool for both professional networking and job searches at my (executive) level, but when I come back from face-to-face networking events, I often find that I hit my "outstanding invitation limit" on LinkedIn and can't invite everyone I met to link with me. Why do they have a limit and how to I increase mine?

I have a bunch of friends in MySpace now and its definitely cool but I really want to be able to change which ones are shown each time. Is there a way to change who are shown as my top friends in my MySpace Profile and can I also change the number of friends shown in my profile too? Tx!

This is weird: i got a friend request from a scantily clad young woman today but when I look at her profile, I can't see what we have in common other than that we're both female. She's talking about being a virgin and yet has plenty of rather revealing photos of herself and links off to some outside site that I'm afraid to visit. is this common?

i'm having lots of fun customizing my myspace profile, but what i don't understand is how some people have a little mini-player with a song on their profiles... how do i add a favorite song to my own profile? thanks, btw, for your great myspace help!

I've been using LinkedIn for a while now, and recently downloaded and tried out the LinkedIn Contact Manager. Now, to my horror, my account has been suspended! What the heck is going on and how do I get it reinstated?

I'm hoping you can help me out; I want to create a new group on MySpace for my MySpace friends so we can communicate more easily than leaving comments for each other. I heard it was ez but havn't figured it out. Can you help a gal out, DT?

I saw your earlier article about how to change the background color of a MySpace profile (see Change background color of MySpace profile) but that's not what I want to do. I want to actually add a background picture. I've seen it done on tons of profiles - how the heck do I change my MySpace backgrounds myself?

I saw your earlier article about Deleting MySpace comments on someone else's profile in which you said that it can't be done. But you're wrong. You can indeed delete comments by choosing "Show All Comments" in their profile, then you'll get a "delete" option for your own. Check it out!

I know I saw it somewhere, but I can't find it now: how the heck do I invite someone to check out and hopefully subscribe to my MySpace blog? Please take it slow and be detailed - I find MySpace darn confusing. :-(

I've seen all these other users that have cool little symbols in their MySpace names and am jealous. How the heck can I add hearts or other symbols to my profile name?

Dave I was wondering if it is possible to delete comments on MySpace that you left on other peoples pages. I know it's possible to delete ones left on your page but I can't figure out how to delete a comment that I left.

I saw you wrote a piece about how to delete a comment from someone you didn't like on MySpace, but that's not the problem I have. I'm trying to figure out how to delete someone from my friend list itself as I don't want everyone to think I'm still friends with this particular girl. Can you help me out, Dave?

Do u know if myspace brings any viruses to ur computer..... if it does just write back please tell me what I should be looking out for, and why on earth they'd be doing that!

Dave, my daughter 15 spends a lot of time on my space. I have told her to make sure i always have her password and of course she will tell me and then change it. I want to know what is going on. Will you please help me before some creep gets her? I am a single mom and it would just kill me if anything happened to her. I know she likes my space and i really don't wont to take it away. I just want to keep track of her. I believe her name on my space is [identity masked]. Will you check it out for me and let me know? Most appreciated.

I'm a big fan of LinkedIn and find it a very useful tool for both professional networking and job hunting, but as I have used it for a year or two I have found that my list of connections no longer reflects my current career direction and I would like to axe a few people from the list. I still like them, just don't want to have a formal LinkedIn connection. How the heck do I delete LinkedIn connections, Dave??

I have a friend who turns out to be a real jerk and I really want to get rid of his comment on my MySpace account. I seem to recall that when someone initially leaves a comment I can choose whether to accept it or not, but can I delete it now, months later, so I don't have to see this guy's face every time?

I've been slowly getting into MySpace and am finding that it's cool, but every so often I get a friend request from some weirdo or jerk who I not only don't want to be friends with, but would prefer didn't know I even existed. Are there some tips on how to avoid the oddballs on MySpace?

I'm done with MySpace. After all the bad publicity and weirdoes that are apparently hanging out on the site, I want to just cut free and leave no trace behind. How do I do that, Dave?

This might be a basic question for you, Dave, but I've looked and looked and just don't see how I can change the background color of my MySpace profile page. But I've seen some people do it with pretty cool results. What's the secret?

Hello. Can you help me? On Yahoo 360 degree blog site... one of my friends posted an inappropriate photo of himself naked onto my blog place for friends and favorites. I can't get rid of it. I've done all the privacy settings but it's too late.. the photo is there already. Please let me know how to erase/delete it or just how to totally shut down my whole blog site and start all over without this friend being invited ever again? Please help me?

My parents switched my MySpace profile to be private so that my friends can't find me online, and it's really driving me crazy! Please, tell me, how do i make my myspace page public again?

I've finally become a LinkedIn convert and have found it a great way to stay connected with my colleagues, but I'm now trying to find a job and am wondering if you have some best practices or other tips for how I can use LinkedIn to help with my job search? Thanks!

Hello there I noticed on a friends myspace profile that she managed to get a picture in place of her name for example if you write Briggzy™ it'll come up with a TM right after my name. But my friend's profile has her name replaced by an actual picture. How to do that?

This may seem naive, but - a friend of mine cut off her yahoo personals some months before meeting a significant other. She continued to recive Yahoo personals alert on her email, even after she was no longer a member, she was still appearing on their site (sans picture) even though inactive and told that she would be removed after 3 months. She managed to finally get herself removed but continued to receive alerts for replies to her profile. WHAT GIVES WITH THOSE GUYS - How do you escape their clutches??

Now that I've started to use LinkedIn, I'm paying more attention to everyone else's LinkedIn Profile too, of course, and i just noticed that some people are able to add links to their company and personal Web sites. I want to do that too! How do I add these links?

Can u help me get into myspace because my school blocks it is there any way to get in, and if yes can u tell me how to me how and what i got to do to get in.

How do i get a nice background on my page? I can find a very good one but it always says myspace on it but i try it anyway. How do i put the graphic into my background on my page?

The events page on myspace.com has a link "view map", and that link opens a new window with the map of the location of a given event. I want to do the same for a site that I am working on, for a friend. His site is also about social events and he wants me to add a link that will automatically provide the user with a map of that event's location. Please tell me how to do that. I looked for code snipets and stuff, but I am just not sure how to go about it. I thought I could just add a link to the google maps main page, but I don't know how to ensure that it will map the address of each event. Please help.

I'm just plugging in to MySpace and am having fun setting up my profile, but I'm a bit baffled about how to get my blog going. When I click on the "Blog" part of "View My" under my picture (that is, "view my blog") all I get is an error page. Do I have to pay to have a weblog on Myspace??

I have a spreadsheet of names, addresses, email and phone numbers and would like to invite all of them to join LinkedIn and link to me. Can you tell me how to do this as I haven't been able to figure it out? Thanks, Dave!

Most of my friends have nice MySpace URLs that let them easily point new friends to their profiles, but I haven't seen where I can set up one like that for myself. Instead I have some lame eight digit number like 84030403. That sux. How can I get this working?

I've just started working on the popular MySpace site and it's pretty fun to find old buddies and new friends on the site, but sometimes people tell me that they've invited me to be a friend and I've never seen their invite? What's up with that, Dave? And how do I check to see if there are any outstanding friend requests?

I just met this cool girl and want to hook up with her on MySpace, but I don't know how to do that. I read your earlier article about how to invite people via email, but that's going to see kinda lame if I already know she's on MySpace. Help!

I signed up for MySpace after hearing so much about it, but I have to say that I'm not sure how to proceed. My biggest question: I want to invite some friends to join but I don't know how to do that. Can you show me how to do that, please?

I've signed up for LinkedIn and had some success getting my colleagues to sign up too, but I'm a bit confused: for most of my links I can see their connections too, but there are a couple of people who obviously have connections but I can't see or browse them. What's that all about and how could I do that if I wanted to keep my connections private?

I signed up for MySpace and Facebook because, well, everyone does here at UT, but I'm not really sure I understand how it all works. Now I just got an email message that "Jerry would like to be added as one of your friends" from MySpace and I still don't really know what it means and what I am supposed to do at this point. What if I don't like Jerry and don't want to connect to him, for example?

This is just deeply troubling: I finally succumbed to the never-ending harassment of my pals and have signed up for a MySpace account, but as soon as I signed in, the system tells me that I have a friend already linked to me named "Tom"? Who the heck is Tom and why is he listed as my friend?

I'm a big fan of MySpace and all my friends are too, but we really want to be able to talk real-time rather than just send email messages back and forth and post endless bulletins. I know Google has its IM service, Microsoft has one, heck, even Yahoo has an IM service, but what about MySpace? Is there a MySpace Messenger?

I have two Macs. One is running Mac OS X Panther, the other Mac OS X Tiger. They both have Safari and Explorer. I have kids that want to spent alot of time on myspace.com. I have heard that you can use Unix to redirect URLs by changing the host file. If you could help me I would apreciate it.

I'm really appreciating your series of articles on the LinkedIn system, and am now ready to start inviting some of my colleagues now that I have my profile set up and such. Can you tell me how to do that, and perhaps also share some best practices for inviting others to join?

I'm still on the LinkedIn learning curve, but I do have a profile now and have invited a few of my friends and colleagues to link up with me. All of a sudden I now have a "request to forward" an introduction from someone I don't know to one of my friends. What do I do?

Partially thanks to your tutorial on getting started with linkedin I've become somewhat of a convert. What bugs me, though, is that people who aren't part of my extended network can't see my profile. Surely there's some slick way to do this?

Some of my colleagues have signed up for the Plaxo shared business card / contact management service, and I'm wondering if it's possible to get spam because I'm a member of the Plaxo service?

Dave, this is a weird question, but I was talking to my Mom about LinkedIn, Orkut and Ryze when she got a funny look on her face and said "I bet criminals use these sites to buy and sell illegal stuff"? I laughed at the time, but now I'm wondering...

I need some help: I've joined LinkedIn and now want to find other people in Colorado who can help me find work. I've a background in computer networking and am a civilian employee of the Air Force, but I'm pretty new to LinkedIn. Do you have some advice for me?

I'm on a LinkedIn-related mailing list and everyone on the list - but me - has a cool signature block that includes their name, title, contact information and a link to their LinkedIn Profile. I don't want to come across as a n00b and ask on the list, so I though I'd ask you: How do I create one of these for myself?

I've been just getting up to speed with LinkedIn as a professional networking tool and am trying to figure out whether I can use a shortened URL in my email signature that would take people to my LinkedIn Profile page. Is that possible? If so, how do I figure out the page address?

Dave, I think I understand the value of networking as well as the next businessman, but for the life of me, I don't really see what sites like LinkedIn, Ryze and Ecademy can do for me. What's the point of these sites other than just as some sort of digital popularity contest?