Yesterday Facebook released a new version of Groups. don’t know about you but as a marketer and community builder, I struggled between knowing which to use for what, based on the benefits of both. However now these new Groups have been built from the ground up with a new resolution to facilitate real world groups and communities that already exist, something that gets back to the core of Facebook’s early mission of ‘helping you connect with the people you know.’ Communities are made of micro-communities. So what? MORE >>

The above model is something I’ve been thinking about for a while – and would love to now think through with you – that aims to present some guide and scale for participation, with the goal of helping us know what level of participation to pitch for our communities or projects. lot of the successes, and failures, that I see not only within Social Media but community engagement in general are linked to pitching at the right level of participation: Failure generally happens where the amount of participation is overestimated, and only a high level is provided. MORE >>

Adding value and the art of Curating. According to Harvard Business Review , almost 95% of inventions are based on innovation – the best companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon are just brilliant innovations which added knowledge to existing platforms and positioned themselves from the different angle. It’s also very important to understand that company can add value not only by creating the new content but also by curating the existing one. There is a big discussion going on about Creation vs. Curation and Who is the King – Content or Curator? MORE >>

Scoop.it – Supercharged Curation. pointed to Scoop.it  recently as a good curation tool, but wow, it’s really come into it’s own for me in curating information related to the topic of humanizing your organization , related of course to my forthcoming book on the topic. When you adjust your settings to include sharing on Twitter, Facebook page or Facebook profile (which you can click or unclick for each post you “scoop&# ) – it creates a tweet with a link that takes the reader to that article on your scoop.it Scoop.it Best thing? MORE >>

You can follow Tim on Twitter or on Facebook. With Facebook’s recent changes to the layout of fan pages (aka business pages, aka brand pages), has come the opportunity for those with creativity to design a much more compelling and fully branded page. By default, Facebook reduces your Profile Picture and selects a 50 x 50 pixel section for your thumbnail, but you can edit this to improve it, and you should! Create a Custom iFrame Tab: Free Facebook iFrame Apps. But they require creating a Facebook application and, in general, require many more Web skills. MORE >>