Awareness Networks, Social Marketing Hub an enterprise class community platform has launched their own tool that has Facebook, youtube, flickr, Twitter, and of course connect with their own community features. Spewing corporate content to every known social channel may make your life easier as a marketer, but could cause serious ramifications to the trust of your community. Pick your battles and remember that the needs of the LinkedIn community are far different than those of MySpace, be selective by first knowing your socialgraphics of your customer base. Thanks! MORE >>

Atom : Web feeds are used by the blogging community to share recent entries’ headlines, full text, and even attached multimedia files. Crowdsourcing : A combination of the words crowd and outsourcing, it refers to asking a question via social media and collecting answers from your various communities and users. It enables  next-gen community management and social Web integrations to any site on any platform. Hashtag : Because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data, the Twitter community came up with their own way: hashtags. Bit.ly : Bit.ly MORE >>

guess I am part of the 75% that use third party apps, TweetDeck. removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" class="livefyre-show-comment livefyre-button"> View comment pts Jeremie Brecheisen moderator Pending approval Rate Down Rate Up px; width: px;"> I should say thanks to your community as well. Look forward to seeing how you get on.And (in answer to your comment below), yes, the community here is awesome and makes the blog so much better than I could have ever hoped it to be.Cheers! :) New! blog post on Danny Brown’s, Connection + Conversation = Community blog.  Enjoy! MORE >>

learned today about TweetDeck & find it easier to understand what’s going on. “How can I get more people to follow me?&# “Should I have a public or a protected account?&# “What else should I know about that I don’t know enough about to ask?&# Twitter is growing quickly, at the rate of 5,000-10,000 new accounts per day, according to a new report from Hubspot called State of the Twittersphere.? There has got to be something special going on here. Do you know what it is and, more importantly, are you a part of it? There is no one best way to learn. MORE >>

On their computers, I see Gmail, Facebook, Tweetdeck, Skype, Flickr and a host of other apps and widgets. While I truly love the energy and content at tech conferences, I’m struck (and, at moments, slightly entertained) by the differences in style and etiquette between the entrepreneurial tech events and those with a? more traditional, corporate bent. Nametags are awkwardly enormous as they include name, company, website and Twitter @username. Hint: When the nametag impairs my ability to sit comfortably, it may just a tad too large.) Everyone here already has one.&# Really? Right. MORE >>