Keotag – Keyword searches across the internet landscape. MonitorThis – Subscribes you to up to 20 different RSS feeds through one stream. Samepoint – A conversation search engine. Surchur – An interactive dashboard covering search engines and most social media sites. Technorati – Search engine and monitoring tool for user-generated media and blogs Tinker – Real-time conversations from social media sources such as Twitter and Facebook. TweetDeck – Not only a great way to manage your Twitter account, but the keyword search means

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The study gives each of these Top 100 brands a score based on their engagement across more than ten social media channels, including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, wikis, and discussion forums. Yahoo! Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media altimeter group Brand Business charline li co-creation customer communities EBay facebook freshminds FreshNetworks Google Microsoft online communities online consultation Image by communista_unicorn via Flickr There are some great examples of brands using social media that we use a lot at FreshNetworks .

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

Malaysian Internet users like Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster. Nine of the Top 20 websites in Malaysia are social networking sites, and the top 6 sites are Yahoo!, Facebook, Google.com.my, YouTube, Google.com, and Blogger. Some 100,000 Malaysians are joining Facebook every month , on top of the 1.4 There’s a great article in The Star (Malaysia) by David Gibson of Inter-Asia. They’re also connecting via Twitter, LindedIn and Plaxo, and eBlogger.

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 ).

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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. Up to 21 million users of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts were warned they were at risk of fraud, after 10,000 passwords were grabbed by a fake website which was designed to look identical to Hotmail’s. 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