A new whitepaper by Prescient Digital Media describes the “social intranet” as the next step in the evolution of the intranet: one with two or three accessible social media tools (e.g. blogs, wikis) and wide participation from most or all employees with intranet access, ultimately resulting in increased employee engagement, higher adoption rates, and better ROI for an organization’s technology. In the past year or two, social media on the corporate intranet (intranet ... Read More

Frederico Cardella, classical and operatic singer is working with Perspective Internet Marketing to launch his debut album: Amore Intimo through social media marketing. Using social ecospheres like Myspace, and Facebook, Perspective Internet Marketing hopes to grow Frederico’s fan base and record sales. Online branding using social media marketing campaign has benefited independent artists, like Frederico to give them nation and international attention without the backing of a major ... Read More

ChaCha.me, the new question and answer social network service from ChaCha, can now be accessed via mobile devices. This enables users to ask and answer questions from their mobile phones and see the activity posted live to their ChaCha.me page and on other social networks such as Facebook. Additionally, users can now get instant mobile alerts when a question is asked of them, allowing responses while on the go. “Since we launched ChaCha.me just weeks ago, we have seen explosive ... Read More

Ning, (www.ning.com), the leading platform for custom social experiences, today announced a new set of product options focused on giving Network Creators even more ways to develop and grow their networks online. Three versions of the Ning Platform – Ning Pro, Ning Plus, and Ning Mini – will launch in July of 2010, and will include all of the features that Ning Network Creators have come to rely on for over the past five years, along with exciting new upgrades and options. As part of ... Read More

At the LIFT10 Conference (May 5-7), SmallRivers will present its new service: http://www.paper.li, a web application to read Twitter as a newspaper. It offers users a new way to interact with Twitter, enabling a fast and efficient manner to browse the hundreds of links shared daily by any group of Twitter users. Paper.li is developed by SmallRivers. Using its state-of-the-art social analysis engine, paper.li extracts contextually relevant information from the perspective of a unique ... Read More

Wadja.com, a unique social network that uses labels to create people-to-topic connections, has integrated social websites YouTube and Twitter allowing users to organize, archive and discuss social content in real-time. Wadja helps users make sense of various types of social services, by separating the noise and spam from the real signal. Creating a label takes seconds and allows a user to decide whether to enable or disable targeted content from Twitter or YouTube. Only videos and Tweets ... Read More

Kyte, the 360° video platform, announced that it has extended its cross-platform support of social video experiences to Facebook. Kyte’s latest social innovations include the Kyte Facebook Application Framework, which enables media companies and marketers to quickly establish fully branded interactive video experiences on Facebook. This allows publishers to more easily connect with Facebook Fans and monetize content through pre-roll, overlay and companion advertising on branded canvas ... Read More

Vesta Digital LLC announces IntelBuilder 2.2 version update that integrates all aspects of online marketing tools and brings them into one powerful web based application framework. IntelBuilder Social Media Website Platform is the first platform that offers web content management system (CMS), social media marketing, and sales lead tracking with strong reporting and measuring tools. In addition, this website platform comes with built-in search engine optimization (SEO) and business ... Read More

The winners of the 2010 Design and Remodeling Industry Blogger Awards are: Joys of Home (Best Interior Design Blog), Brookfield Homes (Construction Industry Blog) and Craftsman Home Remodeling (Best Remodeling Blog). Sponsored by Jackson Design & Remodeling, readers voted online for their favorite blog out of 22 nominees in three categories: Interior Design, Construction Business and Remodeling. Winners will receive a $500 cash prize and a JDR Blogger Awards Winner badge to display ... Read More

Twitter generates almost one in ten Social Media global hits to websites according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Facebook is the primary source of traffic to global websites with almost half (48%) of Social Media hits followed by StumbleUpon with almost a quarter (25%). The data for March is based on 13 billion page views across the global StatCounter network of member sites. StatCounter, which provides free website ... Read More

Kiva.org, the world’s first micro-lending website, today announced it has embedded two new Facebook Social Plugins to create a more personalized, social experience on Kiva.org. The new features on Kiva.org will allow users to connect with friends and share their Kiva experience with others. “Kiva was created in an effort to alleviate poverty by connecting people around the world,” said Premal Shah, President of Kiva.org. “The web is an inherently social platform, ... Read More

SOKULE.com, a new social media network, offers small businesses a forum that allows them to save time while marketing their brands using the popularity of social media marketing. Business owners who are committed to utilizing a smart, profitable, and streamlined social media platform are now turning to SOKULE to help them quickly meet their online marketing needs. SOKULE is a uniquely designed social media platform that operates in a similar fashion to Twitter, but includes additional ... Read More

My Twitter Toolbox is a brand new site that provides members with all of the Twitter tools available on the market. The site was developed to help business owners be more effective and markedly increase their productivity with the fastest growing and most popular social networking site out there – Twitter. Months of programming and thousands of hours have gone into making My Twitter Toolbox the most powerful and comprehensive set of Twitter tools on the market. Here is some of the ... Read More

Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Social Network Analysis, Tools and Media Friday 30 April 2010, 8:30am – 5:00pm Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California USA
Social media, communities and collaboration are defined by dynamic network structure. The success of social media is determined by underlying social networks. Success is not determined by technology, applications or social networking sites. Social networks are the complex, omnipresent foundation of all social media, communities and collaboration. Comprehension, visualization and optimization are critical to social media.
Social media network analysis visualizes, interprets and optimizes the …

FreeConference® application takes communication in the virtual world to the next level with audio conferencing. FreeConference provides the tools and shortcuts to schedule a conference and invite friends to join right from a user’s Facebook page.
“Once people realize that conference bridges can be used any time to bring two or more people together to talk, it opens up a new world for family and friends to gather and chat about anything,” said Ken Ford, CEO of Global Conference Partners, parent company of FreeConference. “FreeConference is not just for business discussions, …