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This is an oldie but a goodie – from June 2011. By the Education Database Online. would love to see how these numbers have grown in the last almost-year. Click on the infographic to enlarge. Via: OnlineEducation.net. Social Learning MORE >>

You are an infomediary whether you know it or not. Your friends and acquaintances now get their trusted information from you. Do you take your responsibility seriously? Chuck Peters writes:  Many people are trying to drive through the cacophony, and figure out a way to create a new model, whereby any individual can develop a relationship with a network of information, to get what they want, when they want it, and be shown what might interest them, with a high likelihood of success. We are all reliant on our self selected infomediaries and yet how well are we selecting them? Channel integration. MORE >>

Yesterday was the day. Yesterday was the day I broke my long standing one day traffic record on my blog. And I can honestly say, I have no idea why. I continue to dig into the numbers, but I only have a few ideas of what may have caused the spike. At the very least, it’s an interesting look into the steps I take when I typically post to my blog, and I thought it would be a useful post to share. Back in May of 2009 before I took my blogging seriously, I was laid off of Microsoft. About 1,800 page views for a blog that rarely got 20. That was the moment I decided to take my blog seriously. MORE >>

A version of this post originally appeared on this blog last year. I'm re-posting it with a few minor modifications because I'm giving a presentation based on this content next Tuesday at 10:15am EST at PRSA's Digital Impact Conference. If you'll also be attending, let's get together. Who leads your organization's social media initiatives? Is it someone who rose up and took the role or is is someone who was assigned that role? Social media isn't something that can just be assigned to someone any more than you can just assign someone to be the homecoming king. MORE >>