"A while back, I wrote 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business. It still gets plenty of attention, as it's listed as an official resource on the Twitter business resources page (thanks, @ed!). But you know, I can't leave well enough alone, so here I am with another 50 Power Twitter Tips. Feel free to repost all or any of this, but if you do, please give credit to this link.\n\nI broke them down into five categories: intent, technical, business, integrated usage, and off-twitter. Some could probably fit in more than one category, such as it were. "
"Google Reader is the leading web-based newsreader service for RSS and Atom feeds. Rick Broida shows "how to set up Google's free newsreader service, add RSS feeds, decorate it with favicons, and use it offline.""
"Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60.\n\nHowever, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user's personal information have become more and more permissive. They've also changed how your personal information is classified several times, sometimes in a manner that has been confusing for their users. This has largely been part of Facebook's effort to correlate, publish, and monetize their social graph: a massive database of entities and links that covers everything from where you live to the movies you like and the people you trust."
"Many of these small-business people are using the site in ways you'd commonly imagine: finding leads, growing their business globally, or finding the right vendors. My buddies at LinkedIn recently provided me a list of ten additional ways small businesses can use LinkedIn:"
"The world's leading online scheduling tool, Doodle takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet and makes scheduling virtually effortless. The basic service is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation."
This list is an early draft of top competencies needed to become a social media-literate librarian. Murphy & Moulaison (2009) have written a fine document on this topic, and related the framework back to the ACRL information literacy competencies.
"48ers allows users to search Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg and Delicious in one clean and simple to use interface. "
Twitter is a storehouse of information, but how to sort out the gems from among all of the nonsense? Here are some little known tools that will help you find what you need.
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