Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. My main points were: Social Everywhere - I work with a lot of different shapes and sizes of companies and it's interesting how each one has opportunities to leverage its users to form different kinds of communities, create connections, encourage contribution, etc. I would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena. That shows some interest in the topic.

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build

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One of the strongest marketing tools brands are utilizing on social media platforms is the giving away of merchandise, desired items or access to exclusive items in exchange for something the company sees as valuable: information and/or access to user’s platforms or increasing brand visibility. One of the key elements of a strong social media program is the engagement of a company’s core user base to provide honest feedback as well as to assist in the furthering of the brand’s visibility to the user’s audiences. One of the fastest ways to get someone’s attention, to help secure them

8221;  They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly means they’re happy with Facebook.  I Traditional social networks are more restricted to people whom I already know and information and updates are less discoverable.  And And as a result Twitter Networks are currently different in my mind than many other social networks.  Twitter If you use Twitter and think it is a valuable service then you’re probably tired of the steady stream of your friends who tell you it’s just a fad and they don’t feel compelled to join.  They

wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that I have this done I feel I need to say some words about connecting on social networks. Let’s start with a discussion of existing social networks and then how to approach people on them. Twitter is a reciprocal (or symmetrical) network and therefore if you want to follow I sometimes think that certain advice is BGO (blinding glimpse of the obvious) and doesn’t warrant mentioning.  But But then people’s actions tell me otherwise.

A recent discussion about what critical mass is for a social network site started me thinking about the difference between tipping points and critical mass. It is many times tied to an event that adds a missing catalyst or critical amount of energy to achieve a self sustaining reaction. Technically both are defined in similar words (sometimes considered synonymous), but they do have different connotations. A tipping point can be defined as “the culmination of a build-up of small changes that effects a big change”.

In any event, kudos to Dmitri. So, those who know me might be asking why I was at Drupal Camp , or, more importantly, what exactly is Drupal camp. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) and also a content management framework. In a discussion about the hot CMS’, three are at the top of the pile, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla .

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Intelius with their DateCheck “Look  Up Before You Hook Up” application, Hevva with the launch of Localdirt.com to bring local farming to the web, Twirl TV with their aggregating of online TV content paired with social media integration, and Zorap with their social network content and media sharing won in the DEMOgods category. One of these was social media analytics and the integration of said analytics into advertisement or isolated client services. The winners for this year’s DEMO Fall 09 represented a spectrum of accomplishment. Emo Labs