They can leave a comment, like a post via, Facebook or Disqus and if they share a link via Twitter or other social networking sites you can enable social backtracks to see who they are. Now playing off the success of location-based apps a new wave of web applications have launched or either added features to enable site visitors to check into your website. By offering a way for visitors to check-in to your website or blog provides a way for you to reward them with badges, points and can increase time spent along with social sharing. Badgeville 2. OneTrueFan 3. Marginize 5. MORE >>

Tonight Mark Zuckerberg was on 60 minutes, announcing a few updates about the Facebook platform and a look at Mark’s growth as a successful entrepreneur running the social networking site. During the interview Mark announced that Facebook is rolling out new Facebook profile pages. The new Facebook profiles features a snapshot of who you are, a new section that shows common interest with your friends and a way for you to group your friends by relationships. Are you going to upgrade to the new Facebook profile or wait until Facebook forces you to? MORE >>

Simply putting “find me on Facebook” or “follow me on Twitter” badges on your website does not equate with health care social media.  Featured From the Trenches Implementation Risk and Social MediaContinuing my “awesome finds on the interwebs” series this week, here is the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media’s 12-word social media policy. You heard that right. 12 words. This is so awesome that I’m reposting the whole article here for you. The biggest risk in health care social media is not participating in the conversation.  Farris Timimi , M.D., MORE >>

How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community,  on Facebook? good backup is to remove the comments from say, the Facebook page and the note in the sidebar and in the comments every so often “the official channel&# for reporting issues and concerns. Just remember, the community trusts the moderators to keep a social network (like a Facebook Page) safe and relatively free of nastiness – it’s actually your duty to remove really bad comments and commenters. Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them? Fight with them? Ignore them? MORE >>

Did I Just Earn an Inception Badge or was it Just a Dream? Miso Targets Shopping Networks for Badges and Special Discounts. The Ever-Present Debate Goes On: Is Location A Business Or Feature? Brightkite Gets Down To Badges. Podcast #14: Rob Reed, founder of @MomentFeed on location-based marketing/measuring, foursquare, facebook, and google’s location’s plans. Tags: Featured Geo-Location adage api articles badges brightkite check.in What a week for location-based applications/services. Google Tags – Do They Help? An Anectdotal Review. MORE >>