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Perhaps the most difficult aspects of Social Media to embrace are the changes in our behavior and overall philosophy it necessitates in order to earn relevance and ultimately prominence in consume...

“If you had to choose social media* or 100% engaged employees for your brand, which would you choose?” I recently asked that on Twitter and the responses were pretty interesting. The question for...

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This week, in an exclusive interview for MeetTheBoss TV, Jeff Hayzlett, CMO for Kodak, shares his vision on the future of social media and how Kodak is utilizing Facebook and Twitter as saleable techn...

Twitter went on the offensive this week to stop phishing and other malware. The popular microblogging service launched a new link-screening service. The new service includes a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from users written as twt.tl, the microblogger said in a blog post.

"By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept and prevent the spread of bad links," the blog post said. "Even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we'll be able to keep that user safe," it said without elaborating.

The new tool is much needed. Phishing attacks on Twitter ballooned last year as the service became more popular. And hopefully it will help a growing number of businesses turning to Twitter to be able to ferret out the problems before their tweets are attacked.

For more on Twitter:
- see this Computerworld.com article

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  In 1762 Jean-Jacque Rousseau wrote a little book called The Social Contract.  As stated on the Wikipedia page for the book, Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political...

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I did not invent the phrase in the title of this post, it comes from a piece by Shalom Auslander called 'Meet the Happy New Me, Same as the Crappy Old Me', in the March 2010 issue of GQ magazine, (only available online to subscribers).Flickr - David Clow

The article alternates between funny, insightful, depressing, and funny (again) as it depicts the author's own 'personal branding' journey from, in his words, 'miserable and pissed off' to 'shiny and happy'.

After a series of assignments undertaken as part of an online 'Personal Branding' class, ('Develop a personal catchphrase' and 'Create a logo for yourself'), Auslander asks the question, 'Why didn't anyone seem to think that the commodification of the self was a problem?'

I think it is a valid question.

Has the ridiculously crappy economy and the widespread and persistent unemployment rate conspired to make us all little mini-moguls? Are we all getting overly obsessed with staying on message, carefully constructing our own tiny ad campaigns, looking for just the right post to Retweet, LinkedIn group to join, and event to attend (or vicariously attend). Are we trying too consciously to craft little marketing plans?

Think about all the things we always said we hated, incessant commercials on tv and radio, rampant product placement in mainstream entertainment

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A discussion within the SocialTimes team stemming from recent news that Buddhist religious leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, was tweeting on Twitter led to the question of whether the microblogging s...

The Altimeter Group today released a new report on Social CRM and while analysts release reports all the time, this is different. The report is free to read and share under Creative Commons and th...

If you’re blogging for business, rather than blogging about your cat, baby, fashion addiction, or crush on Taylor Swift, you need to set some success metrics. Without a statistical measure of you...

As you think about the debate about Forrester's blogging policy, I'd like to share a little more about how the opinions you read from Forrester analysts come about. With 15 years experience in this ...

Two seemingly evergreen threads have converged in my mind: First, is social media measurable? And second, the notion that soon, there will be no use for social media directors (or managers or coordi...

Inspired yet again by something Joe Jaffe said (ain’t podcasts fun?), here’s my thought for the day on social media and agencies: Watch out for ad, PR, and marketing agencies who grab one senior ...

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Here is Jim Stroud’s TruLondon interview of TwitterJobSearch director, Bill Fischer. Bill is using Amazon’s S3 cloud facility to suck in every Tweet on Twitter and analyze it for job-opening relevancy. S3 gives him the huge storage and internet bandwidth necessary at a reasonable price (he told me on the order of a couple thousand dollars a month). His said his software could semantically deconstruct even indirect job related Tweets like “Hey Joe, we have an opening in my department”, which when combined with Twitter location and profile information can add up to a job posting.

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An Online Survey from www.fabulis.com During the last week of February, 2010, fabulis sent out a survey to gay men regarding their online behaviors and attitudes.  Remarkably, more than 1400 peopl...

Socialtext Adds Tools to Manage Its Twitter-like Stream PC World These new collaboration suites adapt Web 2.0 consumer online services, like blogs, wikis, discussion forums, syndication feeds, social networks and ... and more »

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“If you don’t eat your meat you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” Pink Floyd, The Wall. That quote from Another Brick in the Wall reminds me of the c...

Hey all, as checking my Google buzz this morning, and found a cool link from Thomas Morffew for a site created by Ren Media. The article lists ten top reasons to use China social media, vs. Wester...

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This weekend saw the New York Knicks host what they billed as the first ever fan #tweetup, at their home court, the legendary Madison Square Garden here in New York City. They put together a very impressive panel to chat social media and catch a game, and really pulled out all the stops: three big [...]

My Twitter mentor the Recruiting Animal takes on Gary Vaynerchuk’s thesis that anyone can make it big in social media. Animal is one of the most verbally gifted people I know, so it was a delight to see him face off with Vaynerchuk who has made a fortune (presumably) with his wine library TV appearances. Marketing take-aways: Success with social media is hard work . Vaynerchuk puts in 12+ hours a day.

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Original Artwork by @Natasha The state and future of Twitter is passionately debated as users and industry pundits explore whether or not the platform and the relationships that connect one another...

EWeek.com has come up with a definitive list of the 25 hot technologies that changed the first decade of the 21^st century. It's a list that includes BlackBerrys and broadband. It also includes items we cannot even remember being without.

Take Twitter, for instance. "Twitter has been massively influential and changed the way we all communicate," the article says. And it's only been part of the tech revolution for the last couple of years. Then there's 3G broadband that has made it possible for smartphones, netbooks, laptops and mobile offices to get good Internet access pretty much anywhere. And don't forget about AJAX which makes it possible to build attractive and interactive web-based GUIs that don't need extra plug-ins or extensions.

It's great to look in the rear-view mirror and appreciate how far technology has advanced in just a short time. It's also exciting to get ready for the next decade to see what's coming next.

For more on hot technologies:
- see this eWeek.com article

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Facebook users know the "newsfeed" technology well--the constantly updating page which appears when members log in to the social networking site. As of Tuesday, social networking fans will be seeing similar features become less prevalent across the web.

This week, Facebook obtained a patent for "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network." This broad definition could cause problems for sites such as MySpace, Flickr, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Yahoo Mail and Windows Live, reports PCWorld. Those sites all include some version of streaming user updates.

AllFacebook.com, a news blog following the story, reports that another patent by the company has been published, but has not yet been approved. This patent also addresses newsfeeds within a social network and was submitted in 2006--when Twitter was a mere twinkle in Biz Stone's eye. Twitter is just one of the sites that may be affected by Facebook's newly-asserted intellectual property rights.

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb.com offered his analysis on the news with a post saying, "If offering a stream of updates of the non-status messages of friends is something Facebook alone could deliver, that would be a major loss for the rest of the social Web."

Back in October 2008, Kirkpatrick declared the newsfeed model "the dominant Internet metaphor of the day; the cascading waterfall of updates from your friends, with comments swirling even around those--that model is everywhere

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