BBC tells journalists to use social media as a primary source. BBC journalists must keep up with technological change – or leave, the director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks says Peter Horrocks: backing Facebook and Twitter. BBC news journalists have been Or Leave. This article is well worth reading in it’s entirety – and one wonders how far behind News Australia and Fairfax are in making similar statements.

Last year we wrote about the case of the Virgin Atlantic employees who were sacked for talking about customers (and indeed their employers) in social networks , and why you should be careful what you say on Facebook . With employees at supermarket chain Tesco posting reportedly abusive comments about customers in groups on Facebook . Today I was interviewed At the time we wrote that: …we’ve probably all talked about work gossip, probably with a small group of friends, privately in a bar or over dinner. What these Virgin employees did may have felt just like that - they

Semanti :A few months ago, after Facebook introduced Facebook Connect, Razorfish created a presentation that looked at the possibilities of a world with portable social graphs online. So we were quite intrigued to hear about Semanti, a browser add-on that automatically shares things you bookmark with your Facebook friends. Currently, we can share individual links on Facebook. Here we go: 1.

We talk to our friends on the phone, by instant messenger or on Facebook. Thursday’s Question Time on the BBC featured the leader of the British National Party, saw a record number of viewers and reportedly 12.5 Of the two shows, the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing offers a richer experience. Image by dhammza via Flickr Watching TV is almost always a social experience. 

Serena has Adopted Facebook as Their Intranet by Bill Ives November 28, 2007 at 8:42 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 A few weeks ago I wrote a post, It is Time for Facebook Fridays: A Idea that Should Spread , that briefly mentioned Serena Software’s policy of allowing employees one hour of personal time during the workweek to spend on their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers, customers, family and friends. In my first post I referred to an article on their policy which I felt was somewhat mis-titled, Serena Software

My friend Clara Shih uses this video in her Facebook Era presentation. If you're on Facebook, you want to see it. Comes from the BBC Three show "The Wall." Tags: 90% people, 10% technology Facebook Social networkin First saw her include it at Webcom Montreal 2009 and thought it so funny that I asked her where she got it. quot; The very first person I sent the link to instantly posted it.

Awareness Makes a Smart Move with Its Facebook Integration by Bill Ives May 5, 2008 at 7:12 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Last week I had an interesting conversation with Eric Schurr, VP of Marketing and Direct sales at Awareness . We discussed their recently announced Facebook integration through their Awareness Facebook Application Framework. I have written about Awareness a number of times here and elsewhere (see Awareness – Enterprise 2.0 Social Media Platform ).

As one commentator said: “ This will not kill Twitter , Facebook, Ning or [insert social network here].” (But if you’re still desperate to give it a go, please don’t ask this guy if he’s got a spare invite. The BBC reports that America’s top G-Man was himself nearly taken in by an email from his bank, which wasn’t. Always just that little bit more organized than you’d Welcome to our round-up of all that's new, controversial or just plain weird on the social media scene in the last few days. THE HEADLINES… The blogosphere was abuzz this week after the US Federal Trade Commission ordered Celebs and Bloggers to ‘fess up if they’ve been paid to plug - or face a whopping $11,000 fine.

Worklight Enters the Enterprise Facebook Market by Bill Ives December 20, 2007 at 11:40 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Yes, there is an enterprise Facebook market. got an email a few days ago from Worklight , Announcing WorkBook, “a Secured Facebook for the Enterprise. software platform currently in use by Global You knew this was coming. I

Facebook as a Corporate Portal Platform? by Paula Thornton December 20, 2007 at 8:51 pm · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 , Facebook , Social Networking Respected colleague, Tony Byrne (editor of CMS Watch, which often does deep industry reports) took an interesting look at Facebook in his piece, Is Facebook in the Enterprise an Oxymoron? Since Tony is one my top respected resource for all-things-content, I know he is not one to take this subject lightly. He shares: “At I consider his attention to this topic as