The community must feel like you care more about them than yourself. TweetDeck rocks for this. When my startup began testing an SMS concierge service a few years ago, the more experienced hotel concierges were uncomfortable with the requirements of being always on. Steve is using Posterous to post everything online. Shouldnt you? Imagine for a moment that you're standing on an overpass high above a busy L.A. freeway like the 405 or the 5. It doesn't really matter which. Pick one. In a span of a few minutes literally thousands of cars will speed buy. Others quiet. MORE >>

While Ill let Valerias work speak for itself (she is a must read if you dont have her in your blog reader or Tweetdeck yet), you should also know about several other smarties we have at Powered. day ago The Community Roundtable Using Social Media in Regulated Industries - This week we had a member call on using social media in regulated industries with guests Mari Anne Snow, CEO of SophiaThink Consulting, and Edward McNichol. days ago Lucky Startups (2) min video: @PeterShankman “what are you doing for them?&#.lately Citizen Marketer 2.1 Very exciting news. It he. MORE >>

This morning, news broke that Backtype , the SF-based, YCombinator founded startup that emerged in 2008 as a blog comments tracker and later pivoted a few times into a professional Twitter analytics company had "gone blue" and joined the mother ship, acquired by Twitter itself. The acquisition is another divider in the haves and have nots for Twitter developers - some who find themselves competing with the realtime short updates giant, and others who find themselves now sporting Twitter badges - TweetDeck included. More: louisgray.com | RSS | E-mail | Cell: 408 646.2759. MORE >>

The keyword here is “could be&# especially since Quora is not the only questions and answers startup to gain some traction and when you think about Quora is really one big message board/forum with new social integration. Why Quora will thrive long after buzz [link] #quoratuesday Tue Jan 11 16:45:34 via TweetDeck David Armano armano What is it called when you answer questions on Quora? big online community forum. Yes, but a different community at this time depending on who/what topics you are following. Some give credit to Robert Scoble and the Scoble affect. MORE >>

and Inbound Marketing Harnessing social & new media to amplify your brand, sustain your community and make you stand out from the rest! Other countries and especially European ones may have lots of startups and great internet dynam ism, but it’s still hard to scale up because of the cultural/language factors. The future, the opportunity: There is to my knowledge, very little that can accommodate intercultural platforms for businesses … as a global business trying to engage with country communities and their constituents (fans etc.), Extanz – PR 2.0 MORE >>