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 [...]

Social Media & Retail Panel Discussion At Social Media Breakfast MSP

I had a blast last Friday speaking on the social media and retail panel for Social Media Breakfast MSP. My company Tunheim Partners sponsored the event and as a result we were able to assemble some fantastic contributions from our clients, including Mall of America, Izzy’s Ice Cream, No Name Steaks, and Iconoculture. No Name [...]

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!

Generation X Technographics

Jennifer Jones interviews Nate Elliott of Forrester Research about how and what social media Generation X uses.

CHART: Kids Don’t Hate Twitter Anymore!

At the end of 2009, more than 30% of Twitter’s visitors were under 25, this chart suggests, up from about 20% of its visitors at the end of 2008. …Posted via web from e-Strategy Blog Links via businessinsider.com

Google Buzz Impressions

Uploaded to Flickr by Tilak Bisht

[/caption] After playing around with Google Buzz since its release, some thoughts: Large Networks: It is most useful and beneficial to those who already had large networks in place. The Robert Scobles and Pete Cashmores and even the Steve Rubels (who’s been pretty much thumbs-down on Buzz) of [...]

Google Buzz Demonstration

Google announced Google Buzz today, their integration of social accounts and online conversations with Gmail. TechCrunch has a rundown, here’s Mashable’s coverage, here’s ReadWriteWeb’s coverage, and here’s Google’s own blog post about Buzz.  Here’s a video demo of Google Buzz. Found at YouTube from Google. UDPATED: 2/9/2010 3 P.M. Google Buzz on a mobile device. Found at [...]

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, [...]

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