As the social web has exploded in growth, so has the need for companies to respond and set guidelines. For large companies especially, these rules can be key to avoiding PR disasters. As we stated in an article on social media policy, you have to contemplate what might happen if someone says or does something stupid. However, a lot of media companies just don t seem to get social media (i.e. The Wall Street Journal). But the venerable Associated Press seems to have crossed the line

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Are social networks such as Facebook and MySpace doing enough to protect their users privacy? In the European Union, they might need to do more. A panel of European regulators has laid out operating guidelines for social networks, which will ensure their compliance with strict albeit sometimes vague online privacy laws in the European Union. These laws mostly stem from the European Union Directive on Data Protection of 1995, which, among other regulations, prohibits collection of p

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Michael Brito is a social media strategist and community builder at Intel. You can catch him writing in his social media blog, Twitter or Facebook at all hours of the day/night. These are his thoughts and opinions and do not reflect that of his employer. Having a Twitter profile doesn?t mean you?re a social media master, but it is a great tool for conversations, building community and finding the latest industry news. That s why Hollywood is on Twitter, athletes are on Twitter, your competitors ar

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If you re seeking a job in social media, we d like to help out. For starters, Mashable s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on Twitter. But we d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable?s job boards are a place for socially-savvy companies to find people like you. This week a

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Digsby has been a rising star in instant messaging. Its social client can not only link to your Gtalk and AIM, but to your Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Gmail. But it faces stiff competition from services like Meebo, Trillian, Pidgin, and dozens of other web and desktop-based IM clients. Today, Digsby released a major upgrade to its desktop IM software. While many of the features, like performance optimization, bug fixes, and improved file transfers for AIM and MSN, the combined group of features si

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Highlights and Sticky Notes:journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curriculanews organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media toolsnews organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media toolsnews organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media toolsSocial media tools are bringing readers to news sites and in many cases are increasing their W

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Updated at 3:30 PM with a note on Digsby's methodology. Ctrl+F gives you the search bar to summon Web search and contacts.(Credit: CNET/Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt) Rising-star all-in-one IM app Digsby received an update to its beta on Wednesday, officially announcing feature additions that Digsby tested in an earlier alpha release we had reported on in April. A boost to performance power reduces Digsby's CPU usage by 50 percent, the company said. That makes it a whopping 20 percent more efficien

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Last August we did a post on Voting Rings in Social Networks. At the time there were a number of sites trying to cater to people that wanted to exchange votes with other social network users. The "industry" has changed quite a bit since then, and it bears re-examination.First, let's define what we mean by a vote exchange site. These are websites that allow their users to "trade" t [...]

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Most people that talk about strategies for using analytics on Digg and other social networks are after the holy grail of a front page. I think that's misguided.The Front Page Can RockFirst, let's talk about the benefits of a front page.Traffic - A ton of it. A front page on Digg can crush your server. You'll get a ton of people to see your site.Rankings - The scuttlebutt in SEO [...]

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You can now have a few quick peeks at the new capabilities of our PMS Social Suite! We've put up a few videos on YouTube that walk you through some of the really interesting points. For starters, here is a quick overview of the dashboard:Hot Articles to SubmitThere are a lot of reasons that you want to submit excellent content to social networks, other than just being a good unpaid worker for these sites: Build a Following - Submitting articles that are likely to hit t [...]

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I'm not saying this has happened to you, but if you spend much time at all promoting your site in social media, eventually you're going to need a new ip address. Maybe the 20-something sysadmin was in a bad mood and was feeling the need for a power trip, or maybe you made a mistake and pushed the envelope just a little too far. But getting banned on most social networks means that t [...]

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I have long followed disruptive trends especially developments across the stack(and I include the Web and Social networking as a part of the Telecoms stack). Value is increasingly being abstracted to higher levels of the stack i.e. to the Web and Social networks and is being decoupled from Telecom networks. If you have not noticed it, the Web just moved. Both facebook and Twitter have almost simultaneously introduced verified identities in facebook names and twitter verified accounts When the Web dr

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Introduction Last week, Opera unite was launched. The pre-announcement said that 'Opera will re-invent the Web'. A statement like that makes you sceptical, but in this case - from an innovation perspective, we were not disappointed. Opera Unite is significant and Opera deserves kudos for taking a truly innovative step even within a recession. The basics of Opera Unite have already been discussed before- but not how it could be used. Hence, I will cover a potential application of Opera Unite as

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Google grabbed 80.17 percent of all Canadian searches for the month of April, according to Hitwise. MSN ranked second with 8.84 percent of the search market followed by Yahoo with 7.34 percent. Ask received 2.75 percent of searches, while the remaining 41 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1 percent of Canadian searches. Hitwise categorizes websites into more than 165 industry categories and the search engine category came out on top, capturing 14.58 percent of all Ca

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There is still a lot to learn about Bing of course. Microsoft's new search engine hasn't been live that long. After reading the back and forth of Matt Cutts and Bing, I started wondering how Bing and Google were treating each other's results. Come to find out, that if you search Google (or other search engines) on Bing, you typically get a single best match result, with sub-results underneath it. You then get a link that says search for other results containing... When you click

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Just to thank everyone who turned up to our networking event on Sunday, and to those who followed us on Twitter via the #4wallmtg hashtag. (@jayneowen @wealthcoach @marcuside @simonephillips @suesearle @developadream). Thanks also to everyone who re-tweeted our output! You can find the minutes of the meeting and connect with all the attendees by searching on the #4wallmtg hashtag. Please do follow each other as you can help build each other's networks, and you have all met now, so can keep in touch and b

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Ok time to be a bit controversial Thomas and Penny. Why are people spending much more time away from Ecademy and in other networks? Over the last few months I have found so many people who "used to be" on Ecademy but now don't spend any time here (Obviously their profiles remain). I find it a shame because the potential for Ecademy is excellent but there is one major difference between Ecademy and other networks, the prevalence of spam. So on Twitter in order to receive spam you need to opt in to a perso

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I like to do a search on the most liked by date, and today I saw that VCP - The importance of member photos Is the most liked, well done Niek Warm regards Penny Power +447771 543478 Founder-Ecademy Connecting Business People - through Business Networking To learn more about how Ecademy and how Social Networking can help your business, read my Blog Using Social Networks to grow your Business.. To learn more about becoming a BlackStar Click >>> HERE

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But maybe the most meaningful........... One question.................... Are you making friends here? This matters enormously to me. Warm regards Penny Power +447771 543478 Founder-Ecademy Connecting Business People - through Business Networking To learn more about how Ecademy and how Social Networking can help your business, read my Blog Using Social Networks to grow your Business.. To learn more about becoming a BlackStar Click >>> HERE

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Channel Five's online viewers will be soon able to embed their favourite episodes from shows such as 'Neighbours' within their blogs and social networks.

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