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 >>

Editor’s note: Today’s guest author, Jay Pinkert , a principal with Shatterbox , was a winner of our 9 Marketing Trends for 2011 contest , in which we asked readers to submit the ninth trend for our upcoming webinar of the same name, which will be held on December 15. In the webinar, we will discuss how to adjust your business to leverage all nine trends. And how well can it bode for Twitter when a symbol for its shortcomings, the Fail Whale , becomes a cultural meme and core users prefer clients like HootSuite and TweetDeck over the Twitter site itself? MORE >>

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 >>

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 >>

Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. It doesn’t have the advanced functionality of Tweetdeck (such as cross-posting to Facebook), but it’s so easy-to-use that it’s my favorite Twitter app. It takes up a lot less screen real estate that Tweetdeck, and I always use Tweetie when conducting my live, Twitter 20 interviews. But I was also using a number of desktop and mobile clients for all these things and found that HS gives you the most comprehensive service – without the annoying “hurr&# alerts from TweetDeck. MORE >>