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Scamville Marches Onto The iPhone, Sneaks Back Into Facebook
In our Scamville series of posts last October we exposed the massive user fraud occurring Facebook and MySpace social games. For the most part, for example, Fake quizzes and the Video Professor scam are off Facebook (but see below on what’s still there). Offerpal and I have done everything we said we would do following the initial social-game offer controversy back in November. Fake quizzes tied to long term mobile subscriptions, malware-laden toolbar downloads and other scams were the center of the controversy. The industry did a lot of talking in the wake
TechCrunch - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup
In the example Spoon references, Facebook added a post log-out message to their homepage which for some users will suggest they look into using Facebook mobile - a small change that is proving useful for the social media powerhouse. One excellent example of how startups can take advantage of collaboration is to work in a coworking environment with other companies and entrepreneurs. It has been quite busy this week on the Web as loads of announcements leading up to SXSW have hit the newswires. This weekend's festivities in Austin look to top last year's Twitter invasion
ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8
The huge social network was once private by default, then made controversial changes in December that pushed hundreds of millions of users toward publishing their information in public and now appears aimed to complete the about-face at its F8 developer conference by offering up public user data in a huge river that outside parties can consume, analyze and build on top of. was all about creating new technologies that made it easy for everyday people to publish their thoughts, social connections and activities, then the next stage of innovation online may be services like recommendations,
ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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  • Social Learning Examples
    At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning . She covers blogs, collaborative calendaring, podcasting, feeds, collaborative mind-mapping, microblogging, photo sharing, screencast sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative editing We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications.
    Informal Learning - Sunday, November 15, 2009
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  • Examples of eLearning 2.0
    approaches used in corporate learning settings: Alongside Formal Learning Blog as writing tool Wiki as a collaborative learning tool Editable reference materials (Wiki) Internal / External Product information Process information Sales scenarios Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / support information Online reference / glossary Experience Capture New-hire blog Maintaining a “lab or project notebook� RSS Reader, Podcasts - Steady Drip Then I ask the group for examples of how they are using eLearning 2.0 new acct mgrs have an online community space wikis
    eLearning Technology - Monday, September 22, 2008
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  • Debunking Social Media Myths
    He said "I was selling in the idea that social media is free, until the community manager headcount came in." This underscores a fundamental truth to social media that many organizations underestimate-- being social means having real live people who actively participate in your initiatives. The economics of using social media in business require the participation of people to fuel it. I recently spoke at and attended the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC. On day two, I heard something from Brian Wallace of Blackberry that echoed thoughts I've been preaching
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategies
    If you've got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an entirely new kind of online experience. That doesn't limit your social media options to a generic corporate news blog or a standard-issue Facebook page. But many organizations lack the time, budget or experience to start from scratch. Here are three great options for robust social media presences that let you manage cost and risk by building on existing tools and established best practices.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 27, 2009
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  • Why Non-Profits Are So Good at Social Media
    Online community and social media are hot areas for business these days, as companies recognize the Internet's potential to deepen customer relationships , share knowledge and strengthen teams . NGO-run online communities and social media presences offered nonprofits a new way of stoking and harnessing their members' loyalty and passion; and in their many successes, businesses can find key lessons for using social media to enhance customer relationships, too: In the nonprofit sector, relationships have always been the key currency: the relationships with the members, donors and supporters that NGOs depend on for volunteer labor, financial support and advocacy muscle.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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  • Hire Smarter with Social Media
    Social media can help you focus your recruitment efforts to get great results in any economic climate. Here's how you can use social media tools to make the most of your next hire: Reaching To make efficient use of your time and attention, reach out through the social networks you and your employees already use, and through the online channels that reach your key audiences. A recession might seem like good news for employers looking to hire: with unemployment rates up, you've got more people to choose from and the opportunity to hire at a lower price. While the current
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 13, 2009
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  • When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
    Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and ask how the executives at your company would react: An executive publishes her first blog post, primarily addressing his employees, but open to the public. She intends for the blog to help the survivors of a recent
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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  • How Social Is Too Social?
    While this scenario is extreme, it seems to suggest that maybe not everything is better with friends, despite the fact this seems to be the approach, so far, of social networking services. Over the past few weeks the technology world made big steps forward in making your world even more "social." Buzz also socializes other services, such as Reader, so others can follow what what you read. Imagine walking up to an ATM — you insert your card and begin to check your balance before you put in the amount of cash you want to withdraw from the machine. As you do this, a small
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 22, 2010
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  • 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
    "Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists, assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all designed to tap into the power of social media. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. But social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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  • Six Ways to Find Social Media Talent
    As organizations move their social media strategies from theory to practice, they discover a difficult truth they must confront: Finding the "perfect" social media talent is practically impossible. Maybe they do know social media, but many don't. More broadly, most candidates for social media positions fall at the ends of a spectrum. To start, the field is flooded with thousands of self proclaimed "experts" who have reinvented themselves to take advantage what looks like a growing business opportunity. They need to be vetted.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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