Jiyan Wei, product manager of Vocus and an avid user of LinkedIn and Facebook, tells Jennifer Jones how to build up a great community score on LinkedIn. Not only does he address the best practices in using LinkedIn and Facebook, but he tells what not to do on those sites.

Premier Venture Capitalist Sharon Wienbar discusses what’s hot and not so hot for 2009 in social media investment. In this 15 minute podcast Wienbar describes what every entrepreneur wants to know: what will make venture partners open up their checkbooks.

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Joel Rubinson, Chief Research Officer of the Advertising Research Foundation talks about their exciting upcoming event on January 27, 2009 called Transform Your Research By Listening, West Coast Edition. Leading marketers including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, General Mills and Microsoft will demonstrate how to use social media for new insights. The east coast edition of this event was a sellout. Marketing Voices supports and encourages its listeners to go to the event and register now.