Curated Stories Feb. 22, 2010

Shiv Singh is the VP Global Social Media Lead at Razorfish.com. For more information on social influence marketing, you can read his book Social Media Marketing for Dummies, visit his blog, and follow him on…

The nation’s entrepreneurial prowess may be the best hope to stem 9.7 percent unemployment. Companies from a laser-tech firm to a baby-sitting network are harnessing new ideas – and helping reinvent the econo…

This afternoon Twitter announced that the company now receives over 50 million status updates per day. Compare that with Facebook who states they currently receive over 60 million updates per day. Despite Twi…

So you want to run a successful social media competition for your brand. What are some of the results of successful social media marketing by organisations, companies and agencies? What are the elements of…

Coca-Cola invests millions in Social Media. The company is so far ahead of the curve that it’s getting top billing at this week’s Ragan Communication’s …

The most sweeping reforms of President Obama’s new credit card laws went into effect Monday. But consumers must take these steps to avoid the ‘gotchas.’

Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
First Look: Apple’s Massive iDataCenter — How big is Apples new iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina? Its plenty big, as illustrated by this aerial video posted t…

Some online meetings seem to drag on forever. You can’t even start edging for the door to get the point across to a particularly long-winded speaker, since he’s not going to be able see that subtle gesture….

This is a guest post by Mark Hayward on driving traffic to your small business blog with Twitter.

Based on the success of the recent ProBlogger post, Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn, I…

Imagine walking up to an ATM — you insert your card and begin to check your balance before you put in the amount of cash you want to withdraw from the machine. As you do this, a small crowd of people begins t…

A whole storm of responses came up to my pointing out this article about AOL’s new content strategy and how AOL is hiring up tons of displaced journalists.
The storyline of what most people are saying is, �…

Playing Farmville may make you feel like you’re enjoying the hearty exercise of yard work at times, but there’s no mistaking your virtual digging, plowing, planting, and harvesting as activities that are tr…

Responding to intense pressure for short-term results, people working for corporations often cut corners that they shouldnt. We use all kinds of rationalizations to excuse these behaviors — everything from ev…

Here’s another in an occasional series of posts to “ that try to examine, explain, and illustrate the new structure of media. This one looks at how we discover content now.
Back in the day, a decade (to 50…

You have a great product. People love your content, your products or your services. You have even stepped up your game and created a blog, a Facebook page and an active Twitter account. Yet, the results are uns…

California attorney Wajahat Ali has written a chronicle of how he helped a couple in Sacramento defeat expert stonewalling by Wells Fargo and finally got the bank to modify the couple’s mortgage.
The story is r…

It is easy to be seduced by the power, vitality, and increasingly pervasive influence of social media — so much so that you begin to …

Last week web designer and author Paul Boag wrote a blog post called ‘What is the secret to a successful website?’, and offered to give away 10 free copies of his ‘Website Owner’s Manual’ to some luck…

By KFBB News Team In February of last year, a prominent UK neurologist revealed a stunning claim – warning that use of social media could actually rewire …

Marketers can learn a lot about social media marketing by watching the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. …

As social media sites like Facebook and Twitter take over the Internet, political candidates are discovering how they can reach voters, …

There is an argument around the blogosphere that is DRIVING ME CRAZY.
When it turns to the topic of measurement and social media marketing, many “authorities” flippantly rely on the “double stand…

by Charlene Li
Like many parents, I try to take steps to keep my kids safe online, making sure that they understand not to share personal information online, or even to use their real names. They know how to wr…

Seven months, 3000 Facebook friends and more than 400 Twitter followers later, we now personally understand the significance of social media to grassroots …

I’ve seen it time and time again: the argument that the internet is a
meritocracy – a system in which the most talented and able are rewarded.
This argument is especially popular in the world of startups, w…

We have dedicated social media staff; we include Facebook and Twitter URLs in all of our marketing communications, and actively enlist followers and fans,” …

What follows is the entire version of my recent post on Mashable, “The Maturation of Social Media ROI“
Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. While some…

According to a recent dotCommerce report, over 70% of brands with social media presence fail to publicise this on their website.

For many retailers there are quick wins for content aggregation that are seem…

Severson also is open to building relationships with brands in social media, especially when the site makes him aware of companies he didn’t know. …

Many brands, even those which have made commitments to the platforms, have struggled with exactly how to approach social media. …

Many business owners and managers are perplexed by the social web. The effect of customer participation with social media on brands is undeniable. The effect of employee participation with social media can be a…

I have read a mountain of economics books that purport to explain the great econopocalypse in which we find ourselves, but none can hold a candle to John Lanchester’s Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No…

Amazon.com is the top performing brand in the US based on two critical factors – trust and recommendation – according to a new report by market research firm, Millward Brown. The new report, “Beyond Trust…

Filed under: App Store
Jon Atherton at Chillifresh, the app developer of Wobble, has posted what he says are Apple’s new rules regarding sexual content in an iPhone app:

I have spoken with Apple, and the follo…

Among the media redwoods that will be displaying their wares on Apple’s iPad when the tablet arrives on the shelves next month will be a sapling from a small college in West Texas. Abilene Christian Univers…

There are some medical centers that are investing in the concept of group visits.
The concept, as I wrote awhile back, involves shared medical appointments, comprised of patients with similar medical conditions…

GM’s Bob Lutz says that Tiger’s presence as a spokesman didn’t help Buick sell cars. Buick having unattractive products at the time may have had more than a little to do with it, but Lutz’s comments fit…

Last week or so I was approached by Danny Wong asking me to publish his post on why he thinks link building via guest posting is a bad strategy. I replied to him saying that this largely depends on each person�…

Let me begin by making two important points. One, other than a brief handshake at a conference once or twice, I’ve never met any of the main players involved in this TechCrunch/Crunchgate thing. Two, I ha…

A few weeks ago, I noticed a contest on Stowe Boyd’s site to receive a free entry to the Social Business Edge conference coming up in April in NYC, and a chance to share the idea on stage. I just found out m…

What do you get when a Christian pastor, an atheist, a grad student and a lawyer set up a website to criticize churches?

I swear, this isn’t a bad joke. It’s a very real site, ChurchRater, and it allows anyone…

Our 9th annual ‘10 Issue’ hits newsstands this week. To celebrate, here’s an article on the Vatican from last year’s edition.
By David Goldenberg

Vatican City may have fewer than 1,000 citizens and spa…

A nice set of social media best practices w/ examples – http://bit.ly/bA96Pt (via @iThnk)

[Note: Eight years ago today, on February 22, 2002 (yes, I was blogging back then), I wrote about one of the most incredible experiences of my life. The very first hockey game I ever saw in person was the most...

Last Friday, I watched the Tiger Woods press conference in amazement. I was stunned at his candor. He didn’t sugar-coat his sin. Instead, he repeatedly acknowledged the magnitude of his wrongdoing and the sco…

I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can’t program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin…

From Charlene Li’s The Altimeter:
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The Facebook-platform game FarmVille has 80 million players. It’s been named social networking game of the year. It’s played by people young and old. It’s bigger than Twitter. But that doesn’t mean it�…

ZDNet investigation reveals that an InfoWorld columnist was masquerading as the chief technical officer for a Windows metrics company.

Kevin Kelleher of GigaOM believes that “books are becoming a fringe media.” He writes:

Like other media, books will change to adapt to the new readers, and I think this means less non-fiction. Ev…

Everyone (myself included) is telling you to go out there and network. But, what do you plan to say to people while you’re networking? (For the uninitiated, networking is not merely retaining as many business…

Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can’t use Flash — Daniel Eran Dilger — Morgan Adams, an interactive content developer who knows a lot about building Flash, w…