Therez a lot of fear-mongering abt "losing control" of ur brand
online, when, in fact, u've got control over as much as u
always have: how u present ur biz & how u act.
Jay Baer & Amber Naslund.

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.
Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff

By listening, marketing will re-learn hot to talk.
Doc Searls & David Weinberger.

5 Ways to Use Google+ to Improve Your Search Engine Optimization
http://ow.ly/8jQeO

Until Facebook came along, there was hardly anywhere on the
public Internet where u'd to operate with ur real name.
David Kirkpatrick.

3 New YouTube Changes and What They Mean for Businesses
http://ow.ly/8gAqL

Companies need to lighten up & take themselves less seriously.
They need to get a sense of humor.

How to Create a Viral Sweepstakes With Social Media
http://ow.ly/8jQ7k

How to Create a Viral Sweepstakes With Social Media
http://ow.ly/8jQ7k

For many biz, the fear behind their social media reluctance isnt
just fear of failure but of blame & accountability -- both individual & collective.
Jay Baer & Amber Naslund

Ranking Tools: This Week in Social Media
http://ow.ly/8g8LR

Money follows passion -- not the other way around.
David Siteman Garland

30 Social Media Predictions for 2012 From the Pros
http://ow.ly/8g8Bw

Money follows passion -- not the other way around.
David Siteman Garland

Snap It, Tag It, Share It With China's First Travel Journal App, Coming Soon
http://ow.ly/8gACb

Take 2 ideas & put'em together to make one new idea. After all, watz
a Snuggie but the mutation of a blanket & a robe?
Jim Kukral

How to Use Content to Increase Your Sales
http://ow.ly/8epHK

When all u've got is a hammer, bas service looks like a nail.
Doc Searls

4 Steps to Create a Social Listening Strategy
http://ow.ly/8epHg

Ur organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether u like it or not. Itz bottom-up; itz unstoppable.

Podcasting for Business: What You Need to Know
http://ow.ly/8cCVl

Authenticity, honesty, & personal voice underlie much of what's successful on the web.
Rick Levine

7 Reasons to Rethink Your Blogging Strategy: New Research
http://ow.ly/8cCU0

Already, companies that speak in the languages of the pitch,
the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone.
The Cluetrain Manifesto

10 Ways to Add Facebook Functionality to Your Website
http://ow.ly/8cCT7

This video explains SOPA and PIPA very well... What do you think? http://ow.ly/8ztdT

By publishing content that shows buyers u understand their
problems & can show them how to solve them, u build credibility.
Ardath Albee

3 Ways to Use YouTube to Drive Traffic to Your Website
http://ow.ly/8cCRW

I can take what I learnt from writing articles, educate a
new audience with a new channel, & leapfrog other companies
who r nt embracing this now.
Brian J Carroll

How to Use Social Partnerships to Amplify Your Marketing
http://ow.ly/8cCQD

SocialFolders Is Like Dropbox for Social Media
http://ow.ly/8g9LS

6 Steps for Protecting Corporate Reputation in the Social Media Age
http://ow.ly/8g8no

6 Tips For Building a High Quality Blog Following
http://ow.ly/8g8kN

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.
Jill Konrath

LinkedIn Polls: This Week in Social Media
http://ow.ly/8cCPA

Lieberman Calls on Twitter to Block Taliban Accounts
http://ow.ly/8fcTF

StumbleUpon's Most Popular Searches and Links of 2011
http://ow.ly/8fcSJ

Keep ur eye out for hot topics & trends. The media constantly looking 4 timely stories.
Jim Kukral

10 Tips for Promoting Your Events With the New LinkedIn Events Tool
http://ow.ly/8cCOx

Bud Light Searches Facebook for a 'Correspondent' to Cover Super Bowl
http://ow.ly/8fd5G

The Top 10 Brand Pages on Google+
http://ow.ly/8fd6R

Find Out What's Happening Around You With LBS News App News 2km
http://ow.ly/8gAyt

How to Build an Effective Google+ Brand Strategy
http://ow.ly/8g99S

On Facebook, Obama Has The Most Fans, Ron Paul The Highest “Viral Reach”
http://ow.ly/8g94J

Facebook Timeline Doesn't Show in Internet Explorer 7
http://ow.ly/8g8yE

Reddit's Guide to Fitness Dishes Out Diet and Exercise Tips [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://ow.ly/8g8to

Kidney Donors Find Matches on Facebook
http://ow.ly/8g8e3

Twitter's 15 Major Milestones in 2011
http://ow.ly/8fcS8

Pinterest: A Beginner's Guide to the Hot New Social Network
http://ow.ly/8fcRt

The future of biz is social.
Barry Libert

Top 10 Facebook Apps for Fan Engagement and Building Community
http://ow.ly/8cCNu

You Know Your Klout Score. What's Your Kred Score?
http://ow.ly/8fd54

Facebook Names Top Games of 2011
http://ow.ly/8fd4D

Twitter Is 2011's Most-Buzzed About Social Network
http://ow.ly/8fdsx

Is Google+ Really a Social Media Game Changer?
http://ow.ly/8fdpW

Dwolla Loans Users $500 to Make Instant Payments Through Facebook and Twitter
http://ow.ly/8fdoT

Consumers Not Turning to Social Media Sites for Local Business Info [STUDY]
http://ow.ly/8fdnX

Britney Spears Becomes First Google+ User to Reach 1 Million Followers - Back in 2011
http://ow.ly/8fdkp

How to Earn Trust and Reputation in Social Media
http://ow.ly/8fddj

Twitter Handle Heads to Court, Will Decide Who Owns Followers
http://ow.ly/8fcQS

Facebook Status Update Saves Woman, Child in Hostage Situation
http://ow.ly/8fcQ2

Holding back technology to preserver broken biz models is like
allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in
order to protect their horseshoes.
Don Tapscott & Anthony D Williams

4 Blogger Tools for Breaking Your Writing Block
http://ow.ly/8cCJp

Why Real-World Socializing Is the Next Big Thing for Social Media
http://ow.ly/8fd4a

How Facebook Conquered the Social Web in 2011
http://ow.ly/8fd3v

White House Uses 40dollars Twitter Campaign to Influence Payroll Tax Debate
http://ow.ly/8fdbP

Here's How Twitter Got Big [VIDEO]
http://ow.ly/8fdb9

Digg Makes Sharing Its Links to Facebook Automatic
http://ow.ly/8fdaw

Study Shows Tweeps are More Likely to Follow Journalists Than News Organizations
http://ow.ly/8fd9v

Facebook Ads Keep Facebook 'Free'
http://ow.ly/8fd8F

Global Hotels, Broken Down By Social Media Rewards [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://ow.ly/8fcXq

Google+ Now Up to 62 Million Users, Adding 625,000 a Day [REPORT]
http://ow.ly/8fcMj

Infinity Blade 2 Teases Big Update to Make App Go Social
http://ow.ly/8fcLA

Marketing isnt magic. Therez a science to it.
Dan Zarella

Introducing the Networking Clubs From Social Media Examiner
http://ow.ly/8cCHY

How Tech and Social Media Companies Cashed Out in 2011
http://ow.ly/8fcUB

3 New Ways to Connect With Content That Interests You
http://ow.ly/8fcWc

The Four Key Agency Ingredients to Inbound Marketing Success [SPONSORED]
http://ow.ly/8fcZt

5 Ways to Win at Website Localization
http://ow.ly/8fd04

Facebook and iPhone Lead Way on Klout's Top Topics of 2011 Lists [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://ow.ly/8fd2U

Facebook Suggested Events Predicts Where You'll Want to Go (Back in 2011)
http://ow.ly/8fd1C

7 Ways Businesses Can Get More Social With SlideShare
http://ow.ly/8fd0U

Delete Your Tweets For Good with 'TwitWipe'
http://ow.ly/8fcYH

Just Did It: Nike Finally Opens a Twitter Account
http://ow.ly/8eYMg

5 Steps for Finding New Customers
http://ow.ly/8eYKu

V R all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.
Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff

12 Google+ Marketing Tips From the Pros
http://ow.ly/8cCGE

The Pros & Cons of Google+ for Small Business
http://ow.ly/8eZ8E

Twitter 2012: Bigger and More Ads
http://ow.ly/8eZ1l

Gamer Proposes to Girlfriend in Crime City on Google+
http://ow.ly/8eYXB

13 Location-Based Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs
http://ow.ly/8eYUD

Klout CEO Reveals How to Leverage Score for Fame, Fortune, Perks
http://ow.ly/8eYVj

How to Launch a Social Ambassador Campaign
http://ow.ly/8eYSB

Facebook Timeline vs. Old Profiles: How People View Them Differently [STUDY]
http://ow.ly/8eYRK

The Biggest New Year's Eve Events on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://ow.ly/8eYOG

PapayaMobile Launches “The Games Academy,” An Accelerator For Mobile, Social Game Devel...
http://ow.ly/8eYqE

Choosing Your Airline Seat Based On Your Social Network
http://ow.ly/8eYpK

From 6 degrees to Friendster to Facebook, social networking
has become a familiar & ubiquitous part of the Internet.
David Kirkpatrick

5 Twitter Changes and How to Make the Most of Them
http://ow.ly/8cCEv

10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts of 2011
http://ow.ly/8eYHn

2011 Told Through Twitter - Year in Review
http://ow.ly/8eYFo

Facebook Timeline Is Basically Your Digital Resume
http://ow.ly/8eYCN

YouTube in 2011: How Its Busy Year Affects You
http://ow.ly/8eYAN

Help me nix the window shadows in Lion
http://ow.ly/8eYwz

Quickly Tag Photos With Locations, Assist Ad Targeting With Facebook’s New Timeline Map
http://ow.ly/8eYt8

Did You Review Your Whole Facebook Timeline Before Publishing It?
http://ow.ly/8eYs7

Salesforce Buys Social Performance Platform Rypple; Will Launch ‘Human Capital Manageme...
http://ow.ly/8eYra

How To Found, Grow, and Sell A Social Good Startup (TCTV)
http://ow.ly/8eYi0

Now At 1.4M Members, Fab.com Turns Up The Social With A ‘Live Feed’
http://ow.ly/8eYiY

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
Brian Solis

5 Ways to Keep Your Facebook Page Secure
http://ow.ly/8cCCW

Microsoft Launches So.cl As A Social Network For Students
http://ow.ly/8eYoS

SocialFolders Is A Directory For All Of Your Social Content On The Web
http://ow.ly/8eYn6

Giftmeo Debuts Social Group Gifting Service - Back in 2011
http://ow.ly/8eYmh

Zoho CRM Gets A UI Makeover, Adds LinkedIn Integration
http://ow.ly/8eYlR

VerticalResponse Buys Social Media Marketing Technology Startup Roost
http://ow.ly/8eYkX

Harvard Study: Social Networks Do Little To Influence Taste And Interests
http://ow.ly/8eYhy

Mozilla And Google Extend Default-Search Agreement For Another Three Years
http://ow.ly/8eYgR

FixYa Upgrades Its Q&A Service For Product Issues With Gamification And Some Realtime D...
http://ow.ly/8eYg9

Zendesk Ramps Up Social In Customer Support Platform With Facebook Integration
http://ow.ly/8eY5F

App.net Now Helps Mobile Developers Spruce Up Their Facebook Pages
http://ow.ly/8eY35

Think like a customer.
Paul Gillin

How Small Businesses Should Adapt to Social Media
http://ow.ly/8cCBf

Circles Volume Slider Differentiates Google+ As The Social MacroNetwork
http://ow.ly/8eYfi

Social Music Community Beatrobo Makes Sharing And Listening To Songs With Friends Easy,...
http://ow.ly/8eYeu

BrandMyMail Lets You Customize Gmail With Social Media Updates
http://ow.ly/8eYd0

When Did You Tweet That? Twistory Improves Google Calendar Support
http://ow.ly/8eYcm

BestVendor Raises $3M For Work App Recommendation Platform
http://ow.ly/8eYbd

Saudi Prince Pumps $300 Million Into Twitter - Back in 2011
http://ow.ly/8eYaG

The Top Political Stories On Facebook In 2011 Were Sensationalized, Polarized And Mostl...
http://ow.ly/8eY7x

RadiumOne Buys Mobile Photo Sharing App Developer Focal Labs
http://ow.ly/8eY6q

Hyper-Local Ad Targeting Startup PlaceIQ Raises $4.2 Million And Moves To New York City
http://ow.ly/8eY0V

Lightbox App Debuts New Photo Journal: It’s A Lazy Man’s Tumblr
http://ow.ly/8eXZz

U've probably got a device on u that can shoot decent video, so watz stopping u?
Capture & share some moments.
Steve Garfield

How Ideas Spread With Social Media
http://ow.ly/8cCA5

Travel Rewards Redemption Company ezRez Buys Social Loyalty Check-In App Topguest
http://ow.ly/8eY2C

Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That
http://ow.ly/8eY1X

The Real Reason Twitter Employees Are Leaving—So They Can Sell Their Stock
http://ow.ly/8eY1x

Study: 3 Out of Every 4 Social Network Minutes are Spent on Facebook
http://ow.ly/8f1qm

Urbanspoon Adds Check-ins With New “Dineline” Feature For iPhone
http://ow.ly/8eXYf

Social Censorship in India: Much Ado About Nothing
http://ow.ly/8eXVi

The New Twitter Brand Pages, With Bold Banners And Pinned Videos
http://ow.ly/8eXUX

With $2 Million In Funding, Senzari Prepares To Take On Pandora
http://ow.ly/8eX91

How Zynga Stacks Up To Japan’s Social Gaming Giant, GREE (Hint: It Is Less Profitable)
http://ow.ly/8eX8q

Understand the key factors in the math behind viral marketing, &
use those to figure out what it takes to get viral growth.
David Skok

8 Small Business Social Media Tips From the Pros
http://ow.ly/8cCyK

Facebook To Launch A Subscribe Button For Websites
http://ow.ly/8eXSP

The Hottest Israeli Investment In Years Is A Facebook Performance Marketing Platform
http://ow.ly/8eXRn

comScore And Buddy Media Team Up To Offer In-Depth Social Media Analytics To Brands
http://ow.ly/8eXQz

Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming “Check-in Offers” Feature
http://ow.ly/8eXPt

Behind A Big Data Veteran, GoingOn Brings A Next-Gen Social Platform To Academia
http://ow.ly/8eXNM

Secure.me Launches Social Privacy Monitoring Tool For The World After Gaining A Foothol...
http://ow.ly/8eXMz

Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win
http://ow.ly/8eXLA

New Content Sharing Network Spling Launches, Announces $400K Series A
http://ow.ly/8eXKU

Video: Zynga CEO Mark Pincus Pitches IPO To Investors (look back at 2011 )
http://ow.ly/8eX7b

Facebook, Google, Apple And Rackspace Rated Best Places To Work in 2012
http://ow.ly/8eX5Y

Smartphones are reinventing the connection between companies & their customers.
Rich Miner.

This Online Coding Contest Could Get You a Job Interview With Facebook, Apple and Amazon
http://ow.ly/8jQ25

Sony Combines Social and Local for Successful Product Launch
http://ow.ly/8cCwy

The Top Twitter Hashtags Of 2011
http://ow.ly/8eXIY

Intuit Now Allows Businesses To Create E-Commerce Storefronts On Facebook
http://ow.ly/8eXI3

LiveLead Lets You Share And Watch YouTube Videos With Your Facebook Friends In Real-Time
http://ow.ly/8eXGm

EA Adds Social Game Studio For Hardcore Players With KlickNation Acquisition
http://ow.ly/8eXFi

Aces Hangout Is Bringing Live, Face-to-Face Poker To Google+ Hangouts
http://ow.ly/8eXEN

Doo.net Gets $6.8M To Reinvent Office Paperwork — Oh Yes.
http://ow.ly/8eXaS

Grad Promoboxx Raises $565K For Brand-To-Retailer Marketing Platform
http://ow.ly/8eX9U

College Tips By Google: You’ll Fail Without These 16 Google Products
http://ow.ly/8eX5G

ComScore’s 2011 Social Report: Facebook Leading, Microblogging Growing, World Connecting
http://ow.ly/8eq1Z

Actually, Searches For “Google+” Are Petering Out
http://ow.ly/8eq1d

To be successful & grown your biz & revenues, u must
match the way u market ur prospects learn abt & shop 4 ur products.
Brian Halligan.

YouTube Analytic
http://ow.ly/8cCv3

Carmine Gallo: The Power Of foursquare (TCTV)
http://ow.ly/8eq2O

SurDoc Raises $4 Million For Sharing Formatted Documents Across All Platforms
http://ow.ly/8eq3D

The Rise Of The “Creative” Class
http://ow.ly/8eX5j

Lightbank Backs Belly, A Customer Loyalty And Rewards Platform For Local Businesses
http://ow.ly/8eX4J

1 Million Articles Auto-Shared Daily, So Yahoo! Expands Facebook Integration To 26 More...
http://ow.ly/8eX3V

Ticketing 3.0: Facebook Becomes A Box Office
http://ow.ly/8eX3v

Nearly 20 Million People Read Google’s Blog In 2011; @Google Now Has 4 Million Twitter...
http://ow.ly/8eX1U

Facebook’s Mobile App Has A Big Holiday Week On iPhones, Bigger On Android
http://ow.ly/8eX0T

Watch Out Yammer And Jive, Google Is About To Enter The Social Enterprise Space
http://ow.ly/8epSl

Bank Shuts Down Local Online Advertising Company WebVisible For Not Paying Debts
http://ow.ly/8epRg

Companies are learning that it's much better to offer customers
a place to give direct feedback at their virtual doorstep than to
ignore complaints & let them crop up everywhere.
Brian Reich & Dan Solomon

5 Reasons Your Business Should Be Blogging
http://ow.ly/8cCtC

Social Video Broadcasting Platform Spreecast Raises $4 Million
http://ow.ly/8eSD3

Facebook Snubs Zynga’s CityVille As Most Popular Game Despite 5X Users Of #1 Gardens Of...
http://ow.ly/8epY1

Hitwise: For The Third Year In A Row, Facebook Was The Top-Searched Term In The U.S.
http://ow.ly/8epXw

Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins
http://ow.ly/8epVl

Why We Should All Give Google+ The Finger
http://ow.ly/8epQm

12 Things That Won’t Happen In Online Video in 2012
http://ow.ly/8epPF

Fund.me: Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million
http://ow.ly/8epOL

7moments Is A Beautiful New Way To Share Private Photos In A Group
http://ow.ly/8epNw

Snap It, Tag It, Share It With China's First Travel Journal App, Coming Soon
http://ow.ly/8epMo

Find Out What's Happening Around You With LBS News App News 2km
http://ow.ly/8epLv

Businesses should follow & learn from others' successes & failures in
order to better understand & predict their own.
Ben Mezrich

5 Tips to Sell Your Blog
http://ow.ly/82sCD

Hootsuite Test....

HappySNS Builds Social Games On Facebook, Tencent, Kaixin. Has 30 Million Monthly Active Users
http://ow.ly/8epKw

Chinese Startup Crowd-Sources Solutions to Issues Big and Small
http://ow.ly/8epJq

Despite Attacks, Klout Is Poised To Boost Its Influence
http://ow.ly/8epFH

Nearly 40% Of Facebook Users Are Mobile App Users
http://ow.ly/8epF0

Facebook Started Saturating The US Market In 2011
http://ow.ly/8epCY

Update: Facebook Officially Releases “Messenger For Windows” Desktop Client Following Leak
http://ow.ly/8epAZ

Could ‘Watched On’ Facebook News Feed Stories Save Netflix?
http://ow.ly/8epAg

A New Era For Social Interest Sites: Twitter, Tumblr And Pinterest Go Big In 2011
http://ow.ly/8epxT

Find Out Which Brands Are Winning On Google+ With ZoomSphere (Hint: Android is #1)
http://ow.ly/8cCYM

Clingle Receives 200,000 Downloads in First 2 Months
http://ow.ly/8cCrO

U want to invent new ideas, not new rules.
Dan Heath

Facebook Marketing Book Might Be Just What You Need
http://ow.ly/82sBY

How To Use Anyone’s Face As A Facebook Chat Emoticon
http://ow.ly/8cD9p

Another Report Shows Google+ With 60M+ Users And Growing… But Active User Count Still U...
http://ow.ly/8cD7M

For Google+, User Count Is A Journey Not A Race
http://ow.ly/8cD5n

When Ranking Facebook Adoption As Percentage Of Population, Cyprus Is #1
http://ow.ly/8cD1G

Japan and Korea Rule the Internet, Facebook Taking Full Advantage
http://ow.ly/8cCqN

Foursquare Introduces Lion City Badge For Singapore
http://ow.ly/8cCnj

Tweet for McNuggets: Chinese Startup Offers Social Marketing Rewards
http://ow.ly/8cCmc

Guy Retweets Particularly Entitled Christmas Tweets, Becomes A Phenomenon
http://ow.ly/8b6R0