TechWag:
Image via WikipediaCauses is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Cause (Read More)
a shel of my former self:
Awareness is rising of the impact on business of networked employees—those workers who are continuously connected to their social circles and can tap into them at will. The discussion seems to be shifting, ever so slowly, to the characteristics of companies that, rather than inhibiting these traits, want to reap the benefit (Read More)
New Comm Biz:
Image via CrunchBasePosterous has been gaining a lot of attention lately. Most people see it as a great way to fill that gap between a tweet and a blog. Some people see it as a next generation content management systems for the Web. Other people see it as a lifestream. Whatever you want to call it Posterous is gaining in po (Read More)
Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog:
We just had a happy moment at my job. In a sign of the steady growth in online giving, even amid the recent recession, Network for Good has now processed over $300 million in online donations to more than 50,000 charities since we got started. This year, we’ve distributed money to 60% more charities than last year. The a (Read More)
Submitted by Thejeffbrown
from blog:
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation to our company’s Business Development Directors on the benefits of considering certain social media tools to reach their goals.Mixing sales (or marketing) and social media is, of course, done by companies and individuals all over the world every day. But, if your s (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)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media:
It's NTEN appreciation month and I can think of no better way than to say thank you to all the NTEN members (and non-members) who have contributed to the WeAreMedia project. It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending! I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the We (Read More)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media:
Photo: Bread for the WorldThe most common application of social media is for fundraising andmarketing. But what about using social media as part of program delivery. Do we have examples of using nonprofits using social media for:Volunteeror board recruitment strategyOoutreach or educational programdeliveryCrowdsourcing i (Read More)
Submitted by Shell Harris
from blog:
It is no secret that Twitter is viewed as both marketing secret weapon and marketing bust. As a social networking tool, it has promise but what about Twitter as tool for increasing your business?With the recent news announcements that Twitter is worth in excess of $1 billion amidst rumors of potential takeover and flotation (Read More)
TechWag:
While I am on the subject of measuring and metering social networking over on Toolbox, what I was thinking of was a simple approach that many people could take to monitor Twitter and Facebook in one fell swoop for occurrences of keywords, like your company name. Fortunately both TweetDeck and Seesmic can allow you to monito (Read More)
TechLEARNing.com:
Final results of a Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking and Content-Sharing Tools were released this week. The survey was sent to 83,000 educators nation-wide during late August and September. (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Although social software and BPM is an underlying theme in a lot of the presentations that I give, today at the Business Rules Forum is the first time that I’ve been able to focus exclusively on that topic in a presentation for more than 3 years. Here’s the slides, and a list of the references that I used:BPM, Collaboration (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
David Armano pubblica una sua personale lista di 6 trend dei social media nel 2010 che traduco brevemente e velocemente (segnalatemi errori) qui sotto: 1. I Social media diventano meno “social”Grazie ai gruppi, alle liste ed ai network di nicchia che cominciano a diventare più popolari, le reti verranno considerate come più (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Thanks to James Mullan and Headshift for bringing my attention to this must read post of Capgemini’s ‘Capping IT Off’ blog entitled ‘4 Myths about blocking Internet access in the enterprise’The post echoes comments I made in my post from last week ‘Why ‘wasted time’ is wasted column inches’ about just why blocking access to (Read More)
WebProNews - eBusiness News, Search News, and Business Videos:
Social Media policies of well-known organizations often appear in the news with commentary throughout the Blogosphere, the Twitterverse, etc. There is an ongoing debate about just how restricted social networks should be when it comes to employee use. Bloxx, based in the UK, has released some research finding that 90% of IT (Read More)