Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
I spent a lot of time this week (unintentionally) tuned into Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s extremely enthusiastic – and extremely long – DreamForce keynote address and (intentionally) thinking about the implications of the company’s ‘biggest breakthrough ever’ which is destined to ‘revolutionize the workplace’. The an (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
100. Chris Rauschnothttp://themacwizard.com/Las Vegas, Nevada USAChris Rauschnot is a web 2.0 and social media expert. He also has been an Internet Entrepreneur for over 10 years and is a certified apple tech. He has over 24,000 followers and sent out over 10,800 tweets.99. Ruth Zoaretshttp://twitteranalyzer.com/Tel Aviv, (Read More)
Google Blog Search: "social media":
The 451 Team compiled the following list of the top social media strategists. We admire their work and look forward to what they’re going to come up with in 2010. This is not a comprehensive list of the great social media strategists out there, so we invite you to contribute with the names of any strategists you admire with (Read More)
apophenia:
I prepared a new talk today for Web2.0 Expo that I wanted to share with you: "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"The talk is about the shifts in information flow thanks to new kinds of technology, focusing on some of the challenges that we face because of the shifts going on. (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
from Google Reader:
This is the uncut version of my latest post on TechCrunch…Measuring individual influence in Social Media is as coveted as it is elusive. While many tools claim to calculate authority, it is the definition of influence that requires clarification in order to grasp the relevance and differences of existing tools and services. (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications. It turns out that my pal Jane Hart has already done it for us!Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came u (Read More)
Andrew McAfee:
My latest post over at HBR.org is about MIT’s use of student bloggers on its admissions website. This kind of unfiltered presentation to the wide world of an organization’s internal voices was pretty novel when the Institute launched the blogs four years ago, but it’s become more common.It’s still far from universal, though (Read More)
PR 2.0:
I recently attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco hosted by Tim O’Reilly, John Battelle, and TechWeb.One of the highlights of the conference was a discussion between Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and FM Media’s John Battelle. It was a revealing and enlightening examination of the rise, state, and future of a socia (Read More)
Mashable!:
Any news organization’s web site can get a story picked up by popular sites such as Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Digg, or even Fark, resulting in a bump in page views. But that’s a traffic anomaly. A key metric media companies want to grow is their local audience, because local traffic is where the money is.“Local advert (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
Submitted by Mikeelliott
from Google Reader:
Social Media Today is a moderated business community for the web's best thinkers on Social Media and Web 2.0. (Read More)
KM Space:
Today, I am in San Francisco at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference at the Moscone Center, speaking on a panel about social media policies.I gave a presentation on Cloud Computing at the 2009 version of the Conference in Boston: Evening in the Cloud and Compliance and a presentation on blogging at the 2008 version of the Enterpri (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
This is a guest post by Stefan Wolpers. Stefan works as a start-up consultant in Berlin, Germany, and is founder and chairman of Twittwoch e.V., a non-profit organisation that furthers the use of social media in the corporate world. Follow him on Twitter @stefanw.The tension was short-lived. In the end, first Microsoft anno (Read More)