Curated Stories Feb. 5, 2010

A year ago we launched the ReadWriteWeb Guide on Community Management with the knowledge that “Community Manager” would become an increasingly popular job title. Since then, the requirements of keeping your cus…

The informality of social media makes contact more associational than the systematized approach of the conventional corporate and government culture. …

Recently, Mike posted a concise list of Ten Good Reasons to Buy – one of two essential elements in the Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy strategy that he has been observing and helping to define for some time…

Today has been the Day of Location-Based Reporting at ReadWriteWeb, and what better way to help you end your tedious work week than by showing you this entirely speculative infographic that’s recently been maki…

It’s funny how the federal government’s position on behavioral targeting changes when it wants to use the information gathered. According to CNET:
“The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which…

The problem with much analysis of the
old-versus-new media wars (including some of my own, I confess) is that
we always assume that there’s a moral struggle going on, that the real
battle is between fairne…

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited — The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a…

According to Mike Arrington, Facebook is preparing to roll out its own email client, code named “Titan”. We’ve suggested to Facebook in the past that they roll out an email client as they have an opportu…

Yes, folks, download my iPhone app! (iTunes required)
It’s got some AMAZING features that will make it stand out from every other iPhone app out there:

It will regularly track your movements via GPS and sil…

The HTML5 specification is the much-discussed, much-anticipated follow-on to HTML4, which has grown a little long in the tooth for the kinds of Web applications developers are creating today and aspire to creat…

Today’s guest post comes from Joseph M. Caruso, Publisher of SmartBrief’s Health Care Group

A Social Media Week panel on health care and social media offered insights into some of the major issues facing t…

A new study from consulting firm Kasina came out this week revealing asset management firms’ use of social media. …

Update: I should apologize to Adobe since I knew they had written to the FTC but didn’t mention it when I originally published this post. If you’re interested in this topic you should definitely download an…

“The social media compliance solution has always been about the blog,” Mr. Drachman said. “Entanglement and adoption, which address where the content comes …

I got some great comments from a variety of people to my recent post, Social Media is Failing Retailers, and I wanted to share a couple.
It is not so much that social media is failing retailers, but that retail…

American skier Lindsey Vonn, one of the potential stars of the 2010 Winter Olympics, told her nearly 35,000 Twitter followers that she would not be posting to the social network until after the Games were over…

This chart from Calculated Risk shows the decline in jobs as a percentage of the work force at the peak.
To date in this recession, weve lost 8.4 million jobs. The decline as a percentage of the workforce i…

Google’s plan to digitize the world’s books into a combination research library and bookstore has hit another snag, in the form of a U.S. Justice Department statement that “despite substantial progress ma…

Yesterday’s mail brought news from three well-known names in applied storytelling: Thaler Pekar in partnership with Svend-Erik Engh and Michael Margolis.

And, wow, this year’s Washington, DC, storytelling…

A while back we highlighted a Google Voice Quick Reference cheatsheet you can keep near your phone that lays out Google Voice’s voicemail menu tree so you can quickly skip to whatever action you want. The cheat…

Social Media marketing is rapidly earning a role in the integrated marketing mix of small and enterprise businesses and as such, it’s transforming every division from the inside out. What starts with…

Dont ignore digital assets in your optimization efforts
Don’t fight it: Blended search results, and hence digital asset optimization, are here (at least for now).
Text content may be your SEO poster child, bu…

Trace Mayer submits:H.R. 627 The Credit Card Act of 2009 is a sweeping reform of credit card law. Many consumers are concerned over how this act will affect their spending capacity throughout the new year. The…

So. Facebook has 400 million members and apparently 175 million daily uniques; which is more than the number of members Facebook had in January 2009. The service already serves up more photos that anyone else…

Eric sez, “Today, Larry Lessig announced his call for a constitutional convention to fundamentally address the problem of money in politics by passing a Constitutional amendment. he posted today.”
The proce…

Not to be all “what if”–but the more integral to companies’ social media efforts Facebook becomes, the more leery I am about the idea of putting business eggs in a basket over which one has no contro…

A new iPhone app is trying to take the fiction out of Science Fiction. Movies have long portrayed people in the future speaking commands to computers. Siri, based on $200M of research and development, is trying…

This is a guest post by Dennis Jeffery. He is the Superintendent of The River Conference. He has served as youth pastor, church planter, and lead pastor in Washington, California, and Colorado for over 20 years…

Just tripped across a great turn of phrase from Peppers and Rogers: “Transaction Myopia. Good stuff, and worth checking out. (Via CRMAdvocate)

The key bit:Its far easier for almost any business manager to t…