The Economist on social networking - world of connections This week,  The Economist, every Capatilist’s favourite magazine, has published a special report on on social networking . A World of Connections , provides an excellent overview of the current state of social media for those still trying to get to grips with it. What joy. You can download a free pdf of the report here .

Social Ripple Social Marketing The main thing for me was to chat with Affiliate marketers about how social networks pass information around. You don’t need a big social network yourself. They are primarily one-to-many channel (blogger sets theme, tone and subject) and the social network sees the “finished While you are reading the presentation outline below I’d like you to think about the Twitter change today. Today Twitter turned off “see replies to those I’m not following”.

It is a corporate sponsored social network site that is voluntary, open-source, operates outside of the corporate firewall and is moderated by its users. One of the examples of internal communications programs I’ve cited in presentations and previous posts is the Best Buy Blue Shirt Nation - an internal social network for employees of the electronics super store. Since I’m not a Best Buy employee, I’ve Two videos, very informative... Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt at BIF-4

As organizations explore the use of social networking, the enterprise is no longer the only participant in managing identity. An employee’s social network site profile, social graph, and use of other social tools and applications enable them to construct additional identity facets to suit their own needs. As a result, organizations should incorporate “social identity” claims within identity management practices. The analysis below is an update to my earlier post . This outline forms the baseline of a discussion Alice Wang (Director, Burton Group)

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. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too.  I once had to step in to calm down a forum that was off the charts

Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. ellison.html Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship danah m. Ellison Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University Go to a section in the article: Abstract Introduction Social Network Sites: A Definition A History of Social Network Sites Previous JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d.

Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , and the Ning family of social networking sites are the most popular social networks with wide business appeal. have taken the time to position my self on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Ning, with approximately 1K, 33K, 3K and 2K connections on each network respectively, consistent with my online social networking strategy . The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

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Today, we formally announced our findings from the field research project on social networking conducted August-November 2008. Burton Group Uncovers the Realities of Social Networking in the Enterprise - MSNBC Wire Services - msnbc.com SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Burton Group , a research and consulting firm focused on in-depth analysis of enterprise information technologies, has conducted a detailed field study analyzing social The press release is below. Also, we are making the initial project summary document available as a free download (the link follows the press