Not surprising - it goes a long way to protect the company from fallout if/when staff do ignore the social media guidelines in place.  Media companies: For Journalists entering into public debate  [link] Intel Social Media Guidelines  [link] Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns. The history approach also shows that while the term “social media” was not in play when I jumped in, the social use of online media has been growing for many years - well I These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology

Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use. started making a list of all the social media I use.  So here it is. I

Links to examples of (mostly corporate) organizational social media policies ...Tags: Tags: online_community policies social_medi

image through ericmackonline.com This post may be a little chaotic as I'm using it to get a grip on some of my ideas about social media for organisations. Tomorrow I'm going to write with Sibrenne Wagenaar ; we are writing a booklet on social media for learning and collaboration. We start with social media for professionals (individuals), then teams, then organisations. It's the organisational chapter that needs much more thinking. I

I’ve been co-designing and c0-facilitating a number of workshops for the CGIAR and FAO over the past few years about knowledge sharing, and more recently, this phenomenon people call “social media.” Social Media Strategy Planning & Measurement - What’s Working? With social media,  however, strategy is a compass, not a map, 8221; Part of this work has been to  comb through resources and create some launch pads that are relevant to NGOs and non profits. I

With the publication this month of the Internet Advertising Bureau’s ‘ Social Media Ad Metrics Definitions’ , it seemed a good moment for me to write about the thorny subject, and have a look at some of the controversy around the measurement of ROI in social media. The ROI within social media has long been a bone of contention, and seems likely to become ever more so, with the equally lightning spread of both social media use and savage budget cuts. I’ll ll return to the IAB’s publication later, but in the meantime, let’s take a look at the background into which it appeared.

asked Howard Rheingold to share a little bit about the Social Media Classroom (SMC) he developed as part of a MacArthur Foundation Award (A HASTAC award specifically). There is also a rich library of new media literacy resources and a community of practitioners.  The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and As part of CPSquare’s “ Connected Futures ” workshop exploring the use of web technologies in the service of communities of practice, we (John Smith and I!)

Number of Australian Twitter users for June 2009 was 800,000, according to ComScore. Facebook in particular demonstrated significant growth; Twitter benefited from sudden mainstream popularity in 2009. Technorati Tags: 2009 , Australia , Comscore , Facebook , marketingcharts , Orkut , social media , social networks , statistics , Twitter ...Tags: Found this over at MarketingCharts : Over 70% of Australian internet users visited a social networking site in June, a 29% rise from the same time last year, reports comScore.

In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. This podcast comes from an overview of social media monetization revenues presentations and courses that I’ve been running for the last few years. Freemium Revenues: We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it?