I love it that he says it's an accepted policy. This is how social media should be, integrated into the system and not a stand alone department.

Amplify’d from www.wired.com

Gone are communication pro Price Floyd and technology exec Sumit Agarwal, the two men brought in during the past two years to get the Pentagon comfortable with online interaction in the 21st century. Floyd, a relentless tweeter, decamped in August to join defense giant BAE Systems.

That might be why Floyd isn’t sweating the lack of a social media chief. “The policy is in place,” he emails from the U.K., “no need to have a champion since it is being implemented literally everywhere.” Read more at www.wired.com

I'm in the join diaspora pod too and I have to say I haven't used it too much yet, but the concept is great and I see it as a powerful alternative to Facebook if people adopt. I'd love to hear where you think you'll go with it, or if you'll use it at all.

Amplify’d from raventools.com

What is Diaspora, and how does it affect social media marketing?

The intent of Diaspora is to decentralize your online social network, remove commercialism and help you regain control over your data. Read more at raventools.com

Amplify’d from reviews.cnet.com

To celebrate the landmark number of Facebook fans, Porsche is letting those fans include their names on a special model that will be on display at the Porsche Museum Stuttgart, Germany. Fans have until December 31, 2010, to opt in on the offer. The car, with all the names, will be shown in February 2011. Read more at reviews.cnet.com

This is a huge q for every organization and especially resource strapped nonprofits. How do you decide who has the breadth of knowledge of the organization as well as social media to tackle this on your org?

Please, please tell me it's not the new intern because "he's young and he has a Facebook page"!

Amplify’d from www.nten.org

Some organizations struggle with where social media should “live” within the staff organization chart. Compelling arguments can and have been made for it to live with the web department, with the marketing/communication department, or with the development department. Based on our experience, I propose to you that “who” works with social media is much more important than “which department” in this case. Read more at www.nten.org

"Social Currency will become increasingly biased toward social priorities instead of Wall Street priorities and the pesky little flaw in Market Capitalism will correct itself."
Hmm, what do you think?

Amplify’d from www.ingenesist.com

There are many indices that help us to track comparative values. These include the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500, etc. People track them over time to help define productivity. Productivity (you and I going to work everyday) is what gives the dollar it’s value, not the other way around. Likewise, the Social Value Index will compare the financial profit (or loss) of a product or service with the social profit (or loss) of that product with respect to time.

There are many indices that help us to track comparative values. These include the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500, etc. People track them over time to help define productivity. Productivity (you and I going to work everyday) is what gives the dollar it’s value, not the other way around. Likewise, the Social Value Index will compare the financial profit (or loss) of a product or service with the social profit (or loss) of that product with respect to time. Read more at www.ingenesist.com

Honestly I think Gowalla gets it better than Foursquare but all in all geotagging has lost it's thrill. This post points out some good ideas to make it more useful/interesting but will it last? What do you think?

Amplify’d from www.connectioneconomy.com

Google officially axed the underutilised (and overhyped) Google Wave project last week (read Fast Company’s obituary here). I have a fear that my favourite geo-tagging program, Foursquare, will go the same way.

In summary, then, Foursquare has the potential to be brilliant. But only if it learns the lessons of other social media success stories. Connect us, and enable us to connect! Speak to us, and enable us to speak to you. Enable us to contribute to the development of the system. Read more at www.connectioneconomy.com

I love it how nobody knows what "other" will be but we're sure it will be something game changing. Services and networks are created and morph with lightning speed these days and new ideas are flourishing. We live in amazing times people.

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But 3 years from now, the importance of both Google and Facebook decline, and over 25% of the inbound marketing experts think something new ("other") will be the most important website for marketers.Read more at blog.hubspot.com

I'm so impressed with what Charity Water has done in just a few years. Being able to micro-donate and leverage relationships (social guilt if they don't donate) is a great way to raise even more. They've really become a role model for other nonprofits wanting to do the same thing.

Amplify’d from www.charitywater.org

We believe every person on the planet should have access to clean drinking water.

WILL & JADA’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.Read more at www.charitywater.org

If 24% say they would trust a blogger who DISCLOSES getting free stuff to write about, then what percentage trust somebody who doesn't disclose and then gets outed...answer? 0. (I hope)...

Amplify’d from www.mediabistro.com

Survey: Only 24% Say They'd Trust Bloggers Who Write After Given Free Stuff; 19% If Blogger Was PaidRead more at www.mediabistro.com

I just read this post from Steve Rosenbaum –"Content is King" -- no longer. Today, the world has changed. "Curation Is King."He's all braced to be attacked by the content creators for this, and although the title did make me bristle at first he's got a lot of good points here too, so I'll restrain myself.

Steve's post stuck a chord with me because I create  content that is then duplicated on a number of sites that "curate" about social media. Some of them give my words a reach far beyond my own site so I'm happy to get the ink. There there are sites like Amplify and Lazyfeed that allow users to excerpt the good bits and comment on them creating a whole new conversation and they encourage the reader to go to the source and read the original post as well. Who can argue with that kind of value?

Just last week an account manager for a company I'd mentioned in a post told me my post was being plagiarized with links all over and sent me links. Most I knew about and they'd gotten permission to duuplicate, others had quoted, but a few had literally lifted content and put their own name on it. A couple included the text that Tynt automatically adds to my posts (and Steve's too I see) to the source of the information without even realizing it. (Hello Bot)

So where do you draw the line between calling it plagiarism or curation? Does it matter?