Community Moves From BlogCouncil.org to SocialMedia.org The Blog Council, a community of social media leaders at large companies, has officially changed its name to the Social Media Business Council and will call SocialMedia.org its new online home. “Every day, our members share advice on how to build successful, scalable and self-sufficient social media programs,” said Andy Sernovitz, CEO of the Social Media Business Council and its parent company, GasPedal. “This new ... Read More

Reid Hoffman, founder of business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn, says that the massive amounts of social data available on the Internet will change the business world by allowing for the development of products that yield analytics from user relationships and identities. A video interview with Hoffman, discussing how new products will be created from social data, is featured on IdeasProject, a website developed by Nokia. IdeasProject is an online “information ... Read More

HubSpot announces a social media monitoring feature, the newest addition to its inbound marketing software. The tool tracks a small business’s activity on social media sites, monitoring the company’s brands, relevant industry keywords and online coverage and activity of competitors as an integrated part of HubSpot’s inbound marketing system. http://www.hubspot.com/blog/bid/4884/HubSpot-Introduces-Social-Media-Monitoring-to-Inbound-Marketing-System While other social ... Read More

ffwd (pronounced “fast forward”), an audience powered platform for video content navigation and discovery, and InformationWeek, the leading multimedia business technology brand, announced today the availability of TechWebTV videos on Facebook through the ffwdPlayer application. Built on the ffwd and Facebook Platforms, the application will publish new video to the News Feed on the Fan Page for InformationWeek, using the TechWebTV Brightcove feed, as well as maintaining an always ... Read More

clickbooq, inc. (http://www.clickbooq.com), a leading provider of interactive marketing solutions for professional photographers and visual artists, today announced it has successfully deployed Amazon CloudFront to serve the image-based content of its websites. CloudFront is a groundbreaking web service that is optimized for superfast delivery of web content worldwide. By integrating CloudFront technology and Amazon’s Simple Storage Solution (S3) platform to serve client images, ... Read More

Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced that its Socialize technology is now available as a plug-in for WordPress. WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging and OpenSource toolset in the world, has quickly become a favorite among developers seeking rich functionality and ease of use. The new Socialize plug-in enables WordPress sites to easily add multi-dimensional social and authentication functionality by providing ... Read More

Commuto has officially released their new community bartering widget, targeting social networking, gaming and blog type websites, based on the ever growing Commuto.com social bartering site. “We’re very excited to release our Community Widget, a first of its kind, which allows users to take their bartering communities and place them on their sites. Now users can create or join hobby specific communities like book clubs or more obscure ones like plant trading and place it on ... Read More

KineticaRT has started a TwinCAT Developers group on the professional networking website Linkedin to provide a forum for all levels of Beckhoff TwinCAT PLC developers to discuss programming and system engineering issues, problems and solutions. KineticaRT has been developing solutions using TwinCAT for several years and it would have been great, during that time, to have been able to share our problems with others. Support from Beckhoff and their in-county agent was excellent, but some ... Read More

YourMembership.com Inc., a leading global provider of online member communities and membership management software, today announced the launch of a new add-on, called SocialConnect™, that provides Facebook® integration. The SocialConnect add-on to YourMembership.com communities leverages Facebook Connect technology and enables members of YourMembership.com customer communities to sign in to their organizations’ private communities using their Facebook credentials ... Read More

FatCow (www.fatcow.com), a leader in Web hosting services for individuals and small businesses, worked with Google to become the first Web hosting company to implement the Google Services for Websites console that customers access directly from the hosting control panel. The goal of Google Services for Websites is to enable customers to maximize the potential of their Web site and provide easy access to expanded services such as Webmaster Toolsâ„ , AdSenseâ„ and Custom Searchâ„ ... Read More

Odojo Inc. today announced the launch of a new service that monitors and archives a company’s social network activity, meeting the requirements of both Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Regulation FD (RFD). The Odojo Archiving Service monitors all activity, created both by company employees as well as content created by 3rd parties, on a host of social networking platforms and archives it into a database for future use. Built upon cloud computing technology by Amazon Web Services™, the ... Read More

In a proposed answer to the shortage of leads and new clients for small-to-medium businesses, ReferQuest.com, a refer-and-reward platform, has developed a Facebook application to help businesses experience growth, in the down economy. The ReferQuest Facebook app, available at http://apps.facebook.com/referquest/, allows business owners to utilize the power of social networking to develop leads and acquire new customers. SMBs can use the free application to offer finders’ fees to reward ... Read More

XING (www.xing.com) – the leading European business network – will today launch Twitter Buzz, a new web-based app allowing professionals to keep up on trends and opinions on the popular microblogging service, Twitter. The app gives over seven million XING members access to a real-time Twitter keyword filter, and shows results directly on the personalized XING member home page. With Twitter Buzz, you can search for your company or scout the competition, see what’s being said about ... Read More

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, is pleased to announce the results of its end-user survey, 2009 Corporate Use of Social Networking, an evaluation of how social networking is used in enterprises. The survey presented questions on corporate use of social networking, policies regarding corporate social networking sites, and the utilization of Web 2.0 tools. The survey includes responses from 1,439 participants. Social networking has increasingly been making itself ... Read More

MySpace today announced its intent to restructure its international operations and refocus personnel around a smaller number of territories, while retaining a robust global consumer presence. The proposed restructuring plan, which is subject to consultation with international employees in some countries, would apply to all international divisions of the company, reducing MySpace’s international staff from 450 employees to approximately 150 employees and closing at least 4 of its ... Read More