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"When BNET heard that hotelier Chip Conley’s Facebook photos caused a mild uproar among his employees, we invited the entrepreneur to share his story. After all, usually it’s the boss that’s concerned about his staff’s social media habits, not the other way around."

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While online social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are known hang-outs for younger adults and teenagers, older generations in recent months have been taking to the medium at a faster rate than any other age group, according to industry reports.

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We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around. Some of them don’t quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won’t find any of those brands here. We’ve handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the micro-blogging platform, and asked them a few short questions about how they’re using Twitter.

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With Qik, people can use one of 40 or so Nokias, or some phones with the Windows mobile operating system, including the Motorola Q, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, the AT&T Tilt, the HTC Touch Dual and the Samsung Blackjack II.

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Why does work suck? For the same reason the billable hour and timesheets suck: they are all based on an incorrect belief about work.

Firms are struggling with work/life balance, flextime, time management, etc. But all these are a joke. Flextime is an oxymoron if you still have a schedule or “core hours.” Work/life balance is not up to firms to define, but rather their team members. Time management is, as the authors say, trying to find freedom in a prison.

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SUMMARY: Social media releases aren’t meant to replace traditional press releases. But they can make your effort to disseminate news to journalists, bloggers and anyone else much easier. PR pro Todd Defren and his team at SHIFT Communications created the first template for an SMR. Includes four tips on how to create a social media release, three ways to distribute one and lots of useful links.

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Social networking is at a major fork in the road. Down one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down this yellow brick road and the prize is clearly a big one. But they may end up back in Kansas. Down the other road, lies a future of being the primary repository for your connections (aka the social graph), but with this data available via open APIs to anybody who needs it. That is a utility type model, and as with any utility, it can be hugely valuable at scale.

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This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say.

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The key question today isn't what's dumb on Twitter, but instead how a service with bite-size messages topping out at 140 characters can be smart, useful, maybe even necessary. Here's why I'm looking. In the last few months, the traffic on Twitter has exploded, growing far beyond its circles of bleeding-edge tech enthusiasts and hard-core social networkers.

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Jeremiah Owyang -- who used to be over with John Furrier's PodTech and recently moved to Forrester has an awesome post on Twitter and its uses. Serious comment hashing as well. Checkit.

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I heard about this article written by Ann Handley of Marketing Profs (she's awesome, BTW) regarding Twitter and some Twitter-bashing going on. She counters with some excellent points. With irony, heard about this through the tweets of some fellow Twitters

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Cool branding move Microsoft. Gaping Void's sharp-toothed blue monster/ tagline, “Microsoft – change the world or go home” is a good move. “People see Microsoft as a big, bad corporate monster,” Mr MacLeod said. “Yet all the Microsofties I’

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The people are empowered. Consumer is king. The power equation has shifted. You are no longer in charge of your own brand.

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Bicycling Editor and BikeTown Founder Steve Madden, along with Communications Director Josephine Parr and reps from Kona Bicycling and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation's Secure the Future ride bikes in Africa. Cool Story.

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Professionals pushing 40 and older are joining the college crowd on the social hub. Can CEO Zuckerberg's team give them reason to stick around?

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Newsweek coverstory on Facebook. A must read for the business professional. LinkedIn is not dead (yet?). Facebook is alive and kicking.

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What does everyone think of Pownce, a social-networking service that combines messaging with file-sharing? It's Kevin Rose's latest startup. For the time being, only those with invitations this new site.

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“What is your Facebook Strategy?” is a question I asked of 19 different early stage hi-tech startups during meetings that I had last week in Tel Aviv. For the exception of two of them, none of the startups had one. And none of the other more establish

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Jeff Pulver continues to document his reasons to believe that Facebook is the killer social networking app - no wait -- PLATFORM of 2007

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This eighth annual event, which is themed “Sustainability & Authenticity: Marketing Your Destination’s Unique Character,” will address issues critical to tourism, including geotourism, social media and brand building. Speakers at the event include J

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