Social Media Now 1.18.09

Here’s what’s been going on in Social Media over the last week or so. Missing something? Email me or add your news in the comments section!

One of the big news stories was the US Airways jet landing in the Hudson river. Once again Twitter was the first place many of us heard the news, complete with pictures via Twitpic. In a few hours the event was discussed in every imaginable media. With Twitter’s massive growth over the last year, it’s clear that the way we communicate has drastically changed.

Many of us wonder if Twitter is killing blogging, and Debbie Weil, one of Ad Age’s Twitter Power 150 shares her thoughts on the subject.

The Obama team’s use of social media has continued to be scrutinized, and Edelman’s DC Digital Public Affairs team put together a white-paper called “Inside Obama’s Social Media Toolkit” available for free download, and Jeremiah Owyang wrote about the “Citizen’s Briefing Book.

Dan Schawbel tells us how to build the ultimate social media resume. Just in time too with all these layoffs, and to help you find that job, the Purple People Collective launched to help ex-Yahoos find work. Oh and if the job market’s got you down, don’t forget that social media makes for a great support group.

Looking for more to read? Read Tamar Weinberg’s list of Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008.

Bright Shiny Objects

Dandy iD Connect and manage all of your social media ID’s in one place, manage your social graph, and add a widget to your site that links displays all your social networks.

Yahoo started letting users add updates from their friends in their new Open Strategy. Rumor has it Yahoo mail users will have a lot more ability to filter their mail, view photos from non-Yahoo services etc without leaving their Yahoo Mail page, and see their friend’s updates in a FriendFeed like interface.

WordPress.TV launched with videos from the creators themselves to show you how to get the most out of the popular blogging app, and videos from WordCamp as well.

Speaking of WordPress, Dan Zarella just release TweetSuite which shows a nifty icon so users can post your title directly to Twitter as well as show off the trackbacks linking to your post.

Social Media Now 10.22.08

Here’s a quick round-up of some recent news in social media. Did we miss your favorite social media news story? Add it in the comments or email us to add it to the next post for social media now.

Shel Israel writes about not mistaking popularity for influence. There’s an interesting post on Mashable about top blunders from the social media gurus, with a little something we can all learn from. Chris Brogan reminds us that it’s not necessarily true the famous bloggers are the only ones with anything important to say, and to promote and encourage others to keep the conversations fresh. Blog Action Day showed how social media can help us raise our voices and awareness about critical issues and thousands of bloggers responded in their own ways. Nonprofit Bootcamp happened in San Mateo, and over 2000 people got the resources they needed to get down to business online. Nielsen online ratings showed huge traffic growth for several social media sites this year, especially Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin, while some other sites like Buzznet and imeem slipped a bit, and imeem may be doing some cutting back. FriendFeed announced their real-time API, so now you can keep up to date on your friends in real-time.

Bright Shiny Objects

• AppLoop is an iPhone friendly RSS reader that’s getting good reviews.
• Lijit search just added advertising to it’s bag of tricks.
• Twine can help you track your bookmarks and other content, and learns what you like the more you use it and then makes recommendations based on your usage.

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Social Media Now 7.6.08

Here are some interesting links we’ve come across in the past week. Have you got some favorites to pass on? Share them in the comments section!

John McQuaid is thinking about hyperlocal in his post ”The Big Die-Off, And The Long Tail Of Hyperlocal”.

Josh Bernoff discusses the benefits and drawbacks when politicians delve into social media in his post Barack Obama vs. my.BarackObama.com on FISA — When Your Fans Disagree With You

Jeremiah Owyang discusses the Social CMS Dilemma and wonders if we’ll be seeing better tools for community management, and if community managers are ready for that.

Scoble points out some interesting stats about FriendFeed, and how participation can win you friends and followers.

Bright Shiny Objects
My favorite new Twitter App, TweetDeck launched in beta on the 4th of July.

I also discovered ClipMarks, which allows you to clip parts of a page and send it by email, to your blog, FriendFeed, or add a Clipmarks widget pretty much anywhere you want to.

And last but not least, check out TwitterPacks, a wiki that groups twitter users by areas of interest.