via Social Media Today | 20 Questions To Start a Social Media Discussion .

via Social Media Today | Study shows women dominate on social networks .

via Social Media Today | Five Social Media Predictions for 2010 .

via The Anti-Social-Network Social Network – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.

via Six Social Media Trends for 2010 – Conversation Starter – HarvardBusiness.org.

via Social Media: What’s Next? : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum.

You’re likely familiar with e-mail phishing scams.  Typically, these involve an email that looks to come from a name you know – like Microsoft, PayPal, or your bank – and then direct you to a website where you’re asked to “verify your account” or perform some other task that requires your username and password.

via How to Avoid Social Media Phishing Scams : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum.

At Ars Technica we’ve done a number of social media campaigns in the past, and we’ve learned quite a bit about what it takes to make these efforts successful. All such campaigns are run on our forums, where they provide advertisers with a high level of engagement and they give forum users a chance to interact directly with brands to provide feedback, ask questions, and gain greater insight into more than just the specifics of a product.

via Top 5 Things to Remember When Doing a Social Media Campaign : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum.

via Social-Media Marketing for Restaurants: 10 Tips – 6/5/2009 11:03:00 AM – Restaurants and Institutions.

* FriendFeed to operate as is for time being

* Facebook more interested in talent than product -analyst

(Adds comments from FriendFeed founder, analyst, background)

via Facebook buys social media start-up FriendFeed.

via Zoëtry Wellness & Spa Resorts Catches the Potential of Social Networks.
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Posted by Shane Gibson on July 5, 2009 at 3:20pm

My Independence Day Manifesto: Devil Inside, Devil Inside, Every Single One of Us the Devil Inside by John McElhenney

Posted by John McElhenney on July 5, 2009 at 12:30am — 7 Comments

Fighting Social Media Fatigue

Posted by Michael C. Dougherty on July 1, 2009 at 9:50am — 1 Comment

via inSocialMedia.com.

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via Guest Pulse – Inside Social Media Marketing – Social Media 101.

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via 7 Reasons Why Companies Need A Social Web Presence | Blog of Mr. Tweet.

via OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN | 5 Things Small Businesses Can Learn From Big Business Social Media Campaigns.

via OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN | 5 Things Small Businesses Can Learn From Big Business Social Media Campaigns.

Let’s take a step back and think about the strong word in the term social media. We’ve had all kind of media for ages – print, then the novelty of radio, then video that supposedly killed the radio stars (they also said that sound in movies would never take off, oh my), then the Web.

via Is Your Company Thinking that Social Media is a Job? .

by Ian Orekondy on 07/04/2009 05:05   3 comments , 1902 views

Categories: Search

Tags: hashtags

(How to Measure the Impact of Social Content (blog posts, Tweets, etc.) on Search Within Social Media and Social Networking Sites)

In this post, we’ll focus on how to measure the impact of Twitter, which reached about 22 million people in May.

via 3+ Ways to Measure the Impact of Social Media on Search .

via The “Must-Have” Tool Kit of Social Media Citizen .

We think that would make a whole lot of sense. In fact we think that if real time search were turned into a business tool it could challenge social media monitoring services like Radian6, Scout Labs and Sysomos. Here’s what we think needs to happen in order for that to become a possibility.

via How FriendFeed Could Become the Ultimate Social Media Tracking Service .