Article: CONNECTIONS Managing time means limiting social networking

Like many entrepreneurs conducting business over the Web, Sara Puls has fallen into a social networking sinkhole.

Puls helps nonprofits and government agencies create their own online communities through her Milwaukee Web development company, BrewCityTails.com. She also oversees an online community for pet lovers through a second business, Involvenet.

To make her businesses work, Puls participates in social networking.

She uses Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, the most popular social networking sites for business; chats regularly on Gmail; and uses MySpace to stay in touch with a niece in Oklahoma.

"Some of the relationships I've made have led to real opportunities to make money," Puls said.

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