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The Learn About Social Networking blog provides updated news on popular social networking site including MySpace, FaceBook, Friendster, and more. In addition to news we post commentary on the sites and tutorials on creating templates and using the popular social networking sites.

Convergence in B2B and B2C Mobile Marketing?
Posted 2 days ago on The Social Customer Manifesto
(A recent column I wrote for Mobile Marketer.) On the surface, there are stark differences between business-to-business marketing and busines...

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Jeanette Gibson from Cisco on Governance
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago on The Social Customer Manifesto
How Cisco looks at social media from a governance perspective, as presented by Jeanette Gibson (Director of New Media, Cisco Corporate Commu...

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Smartphones Changing the Network
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago on The Social Customer Manifesto
New post up at SupernovaHub: "Smartphones Changing the Network."  The key bit, from analyst NPD, via Geek.com: "The smartphone category grew its...

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The Social Media Maturity Model - One Perspective
Posted 2 weeks ago on The Social Customer Manifesto
The folks over at DestinationCRM asked for some initial thoughts on the Social Media Maturity Model.  First, definitely check out Josh Weinberger’s post fro...

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Talk: Impact of Social Media on You
Posted 2 weeks ago on Complexity and Social Networks Blog
In line with David Gibson's recent post I would like to recommend watching the following video from a talk of Clay Shirky (NYU) at the U.S. Department...

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Talk: Impact of Social Media on You
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago on Complexity and Social Networks Blog
In line with David Gibson's recent post I would like to recommend watching the following video from a talk of Clay Shirky (NYU) at the U.S. Department...

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Corporate Blogging Roundtable
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago on The Social Customer Manifesto
The folks from the German-American Business Association were kind enough to invite Mark Finnern (SAP), Jennifer McClure (Society for New Communications Re...

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When social networking matters more than social networks
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago on Complexity and Social Networks Blog
Yet again, social networking platforms seem to be playing a critical role in enabling social unrest--now in Iran. Some of us in the network analysis community are probably ambivalent, given all the ...

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Happy flu returns
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago on Complexity and Social Networks Blog
I wrote an entry last year for "happy flu", a clever experiment by Matthieu Latapy to study diffusion in networks. The basic idea was that some s...

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Is “Community” a Lie?
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago on The Social Customer Manifesto
Micah (say "Me(ha!)") does some solid thinking about "The Lie of Community."  The thought-provoker:"The lie of community is that by having users or by cr...

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