traced the visit back to Business Exchange , Bloomberg Business Week’s social bookmarking site “that helps professionals discover and organize information from across the Web… a great way to share content and find the most relevant news on business topics.” Anita Campbell , a Twitter friend and CEO of Small Business Trends , “an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month,” had saved my blog post, The Social Media ROI Obsession , on the Business Exchange site. Looking over my traffic stats several weeks ago, I was very surprised to notice that a single visitor had been referred to my blog by Business Week .

Can social aggregation websites make life online easier? wrote in Hubze is a New Business Site for Personal Branding and Social Media Aggregation that “the aggregation of social websites will be a major focus of 2010, as enabling technologies like semantic web come to the forefront.” 8221; Social media enthusiasts who regularly cross post on multiple social platforms, use aggregation sites and tools to simplify simultaneous cross posting across those platforms. I For example, I often want to share a link, an idea or content on

I hesitate to write an article about choosing a social media consultant because of concerns about bias and my obvious conflict of interests. After writing Social Media Carpetbaggers and Snake Oil Salesmen , readers remarked that they had heard enough about the kinds of social media consultants to avoid and were ready to learn how to choose a good social media consultant. The ten guidelines I present below Oh by the way, when I say “he”, I mean “he, she or they.” 8221; Biased I may be, but that biased, I’m not. #1

And I'd almost forget the feeds from the social bookmarking site delicious . Examples I can think of are the CIARIS website on social inclusion. There is a screencast of the design fase. Helpalot is an example of building a site using social networking site ideas. sites are Youtube , Facebook, LinkedIn, Some time ago, I compiled some examples of what you can do with web2.0 tools for communication within a development project.

I’ve bookmarked and skimmed a dozen or more articles that project the path of social media in 2010. Search Social Media 2010 on Google , and you’ll be able to compile your own social media 2010 reading list. If the information in all the articles isn’t sufficiently comprehensive, a list of 44+ social media books to buy and read can help fill the gaps. Collectively these articles represent many days of researching and writing. Not that I don’t like reading about trends and innovations — I do.

With this tool you can make your own website and layer in social networking components such as wikis, blogs, and forums. Somewhat similar services include Wetpaint and Synthasite , and enterprise solutions such as MindTouch . Ping This! ; document.write(str); }

Personal InfoCloud « Remote Presentation and Perception Matrix for Social Tools | Main | Selective Sociality and Social Villages » Getting to Know Collective and Collaborative One of the things that has been a little bothersome in the last year or two and has been the lack of understanding between the difference between two terms, collaborative and collective. The two terms are rather similar in definition (in some dictionaries they are nearly identical), but the differences between the two terms have a huge difference when it comes to value in social

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In this post, I will discuss the methodology for conducting a discovery exercise of the relevant parts of the social web to find out where your community (or potential community) is already working and playing. . Using tools like Google Blog Search, Twitter Search, Delicious, and Ice Rocket, conduct searches for brand mentions in news, the mass social media sphere (blogs, twitter) and on smaller niche communities. This post is part of an ongoing series about developing an online community strategy . As a reminder, all posts are being tagged #ocb2b .

Here is my review on the AppGap - Techrigy Provides Comprehensive Social Media Monitoring. Yasni.com is a German social search tool that does a nice breakdown of sources (e.g. LinkedIn, Google News, Facebook, Google Blogs Search, general web, etc.) Nathan Gilliatt also offers This is the second part of a five part series on how enterprise 2.0 tools can work for an enterprise of one, myself in this case.