Bloggers and other social media contributors (i.e. Let me show you what happens when social media writer /published author is aggrieved with a newspaper writer – and both have a broadcast medium to play in. It doesn’t have to be personal information from social media sites being published – just something the subject didn’t like in the newspaper. Popwatch found this story first One of the rules of journalism that gets broken, unthinkingly, by us online is the name and shame convention . Journalists name senior executives for their naughtiness

Tweehive : ‘Fashioned by a group of creative nature enthusiasts,  Tweehive  is a mass role play by human beings of a bee colony on Twitter, which will be played on three specific days in July, August and September with a view to raise bee awareness, wonderment, interest, actions and to generate traffic to bee related sites and resources.’ So, instead of issuing a traditional RFP, they sent some agencies a social media treasure map: the tag ‘thybrief’, surrounded by various social media logos. Here we go: 1.

As Michael Brito put it, in his post: In social media, listening is only half the battle : Listening and responding are only half the battle when engaging with consumers online. Second, we engaged in a content marketing strategy using blogs, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, online press releases and a number of other online media. Southwest Airlines At Southwest Airlines , the social media team includes It’s really helpful to look at what some good examples of what companies are doing with their listening skills: deflecting customer anger, researching new products, or correcting mis-information.

Last year, Forum One recognized that one of the key issues community and social media professionals face is that we (as an industry) are suffering from a lack of solid benchmarks, including compensation of online community and social media professionals. In July of 2008, as part of our ongoing research efforts with the Online Community Research Network , we conducted the first comprehensive study and gained valuable insight about online community and social media professional's compensation, team structure, and current job satisfaction. In In July of 2009, we launched

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At FreshNetworks we aim to bring you the best posts in social media, online communities and customer engagement online. In case you missed them, find below our top five posts in July. Our most popular post is July highlights a great video from Guy Kawasaki presenting tens steps to innovation. Image by Visentico / Sento via Flickr 1.

Are you a community manager or social media strategist or are you in charge of online community & social media at your organization? The format is an hour of networking, followed by two hours of presentation and discussion about online communities and social media. Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Time: Are you in the Washington DC Area? If so, you might find the Online Community Roundtable of interest.

(nearly 100) Here’s a list of journalists from Australian (mostly mainstream, some New Zealanders) media who have embraced, indeed are head over heels, in love with Twitter. Julie Posetti Take it to Mainstream media. Let’s sit here and watch them. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes . Who watches the watchers themselves? By the way, the first social networking book I ever read was The Republic by Plato, mashing’up and misquoting Socrates.

A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « Here Come The Big Communities | Main | We Are Now Corporate Legit » January 10, 2008 Clearspace Alternatives I dont know if all of you know how blogs work on TypePad, but we all get a stats panel, and we can see where people are coming in. Heres Why Our core belief is that social media is 95% about people, and 5% about technology. One of the most popular avenue, not surprisingly, is searches.

Social Media Group About SMG Clients Media 2008 Services The ROI of Communities - Part II by Maggie Fox | November 23rd, 2007 | Category: education Earlier this week I did some prep for a roundtable on the ROI of Communities at a conference held by the Canadian Marketing Association, and came across the most wonderful list of statistics, courtesy of Bill Johnston , and compiled by Joe Cothrel . Social Media Group » Blog Archive » The ROI of Communities - Part II (tags: communities