Soldiers Now Allowed To Tweet

CNN.com: U.S. military personnel are officially allowed to tweet. That’s the upshot of the Pentagon’s long-awaited policy on rank and file personnel using online social media, unveiled Friday. The new rules authorize access to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media Web sites from nonclassified government computers — as long as such activity doesn’t compromise operational [...]

Online Communication For Nonprofits

This is a series of interviews I did for Map for Nonprofits‘ Map TechWork Nonprofit Technologies Best Practices Web site. The interviews cover Google tools like Analytics, URL Builder, Trends, Insights for Search and YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TweetReach, as well as blogging and WordPress and Posterous in particular.

Stats: The State Of The Internet

A cool video statistical visualization of the state of the Internet. Found at Vimeo from Jesse Thomas via Holy Kaw!

Facebook Farmville Parody

A hilarious spoof of Farmville in the form of a fake television commercial. Found at YouTube from Tobuscus via Mashable via Julio Ojeda-Zapata.

Minnesota Politics & Social Media

Blois Olson introduces the social media & politics panel

[/caption] I can credit the start of my career in online strategy in large part to my fascination with online political communication. In 1994, I read about the first online gubernatorial debate held by E-Democracy (of which I am now a board member); but [...]

Alternative “No Photo” Facebook Icons

February 7, 2010 · Categories: Graphics/Imagery, Lifestreaming, Social Networking · View Comments 
via definitivetouch.com. Posted via web from e-Strategy Blog Links

New Facebook Layout

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Product Manager Peter Deng demonstrate the new layout. Found at YouTube from Mashable.

Facebook Becoming A Heavy Hitting News Distribution Channel?

via weblogs.hitwise.com Facebook was the #4 source of visits to News and Media sites last week, after Google, Yahoo! and msn (see table below). News and Media is the #11 downstream industry after Facebook, receiving 3.69% of the social networking site’s traffic. For journos: Facebook is increasingly where people are their news. You need to be there [...]

Facebook How To: “Retweet” Feature Demonstration

Facebook keeps adding new Twitter features, the most recent being the ability to effectively “retweet” content that appears in your live or news feeds. The significant element of this new feature as a marketing utility is the fact that the feature source-stamps the content, so something I post personally that is shared by someone else, [...]

Using Status Updates To Announce Your Unemployment – Interview Notes

Photo by mikecolvin

[/caption] Last year I responded to a reporter asking: “I am seeking someone who can discuss whether announcing a recent personal layoff in a Facebook status update is the right choice and some advice on the best way to do it.” This was my answer: I think it depends upon the circumstances [...]

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