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Your Career: Tweeting for your boss

Your employer may soon want to muscle in on your Twitter followers and Facebook friends.

Twitter, texting could help families in disasters

Text messaging, Twitter and social networking Web sites could help families stay in touch in the wake of a disaster, a national safety group said Tuesday.

Twitter all-star? Best Buy puts number at 250

After buzz built online about a new marketing job, Best Buy Co. Inc. is reworking the help-wanted listing that sought Twitter experience and put a number on it — 250 followers.

The Vine

Crisis in Iran and Lobbying the Media

So November 4 in Iran is over. Iranians all over the country came out in big and small numbers yet again to demand that their rights be granted and that the government stop its oppression. They chanted slogans, marched through the streets and showed that they still exist.

Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun - CNN.com
Source: CNN

Great article on how privacy is changing due to Social Media

In Today's Viral World, Who Keeps a Civil Tongue?
Source: The Washington Post

The thing that is really important now is the way the Internet has changed the relationship between the elite and the non-elite.

Small business, social media not mixing
Source: Reuters

Few U.S. small businesses have adopted social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter for business uses, according to research released Thursday.

Baltimore Tech Firm Sues Facebook For Patent Infringement
Source: WBAL-TV

WILMINGTON, Del. -- A small Maryland tech company is suing Facebook, alleging that the social networking company infringed on a key patent it holds.

Making Sense Of Social Media
Source: WMUR-TV

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Are you a Facebook follower? Do you tweet? How about text? Many people are caught up in the online social media whirlwind, while others watch from the sidelines, wondering what's going on.

Social Media Marketing: Facebook Hits Profitability
Source: Advertising Age

Scratch Facebook from the list of web 2.0 startups that don't make money: The world's largest social network said today it has become profitable.

Cures for David Murray's attention crash
Source: blog.holtz.com

Great post on social media

The next 15 trends in social networking
Source: Smart Company

Its an arena that links the disciplines of information management, communication, marketing and media. Social media is expected to earn upward of $2 billion in advertising revenue by 2010 as consumers continue to embrace the trend...

Italian Football Referees Banned From Using Social Media
Source: TechCrunch

Channel4 reportsthat the new President of the Referees' Assocation in Italy wants to stop officials from participating in conversations on social networking sites and message boards, and refrain themselves from blogging.

Integrating Twitter, Vimeo and Flickr with your site
Source: newearthonline.co.uk

There are so many popular sites providing services these days that you're bound to want to integrate with them to display feeds of your own or others content on them.

First Steps Taken Toward Socialism | Personal Liberty Digest
Source: www.personalliberty.com

Should I be too afraid to comment?

PSA: Please Don't Tweet from the Jurors' Box
Source: Telegraph

A building materials company and its owner have appealed a $12.6 million (£9 million) verdict against them, alleging that a juror posted messages on the micro-blogging website Twitter.com during the trial that reveal that he might be biased.

The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web - ReadWriteWeb
Source: Read/WriteWeb

OK, I am absolutely NOT a social media hater (I reach out for my crackberry to check my Facebook, MySpace and Twitter apps in the am literally before my eyes open), but I'm also starting to get overwhelmed with my clients' panicky rush for anything and everything web 2.0 without  …

Top Social Media Sites of 2008 (Facebook Still Rising)
Source: TechCrunch

Top social media sites of 2008.

Social Media Sketch 09
Source: Flickr

Sketch of social media in 2009.

Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
Source: Wired News

Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.

The Cost of Doing Nothing – Enterprise Needs to Embrace Social Media
Source: greaterthanmedia.com

You can be sure that if your enterprise is big enough to be called "an enterprise" that there is some conversation happening online about your business, your practices, your performance and your leadership. Some of it may be flattering. Some of it likely is not flattering.

Social Web Speeds Ahead Despite Slowing Economy
Source: micropersuasion.com

As if you didn't have enough to worry about with the slowing economy, just wait. The social web is actually heading in the opposite direction - it's getting a lot faster. This will throw digital marketers another major curve to contend with.

3 Ways Memes Can **** You Up and Infect Your Mind
Source: lifeevolver.com

The song played that is easiest to remember will be a hit. The politician that promises the most gets elected. The Youtube video which creates the strongest reaction in the least amount of time will become popular. What am I talking about? Memes.

Youtube Launches Journalism Contest
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Youtube has partnered with the Pulitzer Center to create a citizen journalist contest. The contest, gives participants reporting assignments then features their coverage on the site.

11 Least Known Social Media Mistakes That YOU Should NEVER Make
Source: seomegacorp.com

Social media is part art, part science. There are techniques, but as in any other activity that deals with fellow human beings, you can count on being surprised from time to time.

Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media
Source: Read/WriteWeb

If there's one thing to be learned from social media tools, it's that these services were not made to interact with one another. Complaints are rolling in and heated discussions are taking place about the noise levels within social media platforms.

Fail: Social News on World Events, Like Cuba - ReadWriteWeb
Source: Read/WriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick argues that social news sites failed at covering yesterday's announcement that Cuban leader Fidel Castro is officially stepping down.

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