Google. Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Readers shared items. Feed Rinse is a best of class RSS filtering application. not via an RSS reader). MORE >>

The number one question I get about social media is: “How can I do all this social media stuff and still get my work done?&#. mean, OK, I confess I spend all day attached to social media like an IV but that’s my job. People hire me to watch out for them and find new opportunities to engage and new tools and it’s all candy to me, but it shouldn’t be for anybody who wants to run a business that isn’t around social media now is it? You need a social media efficiency strategy. RSS Feeds. MORE >>

?. Social media is many things to many people. Yet there is one area where all the definitions can come together and agree on, and that’s the area of social media myths. So, here are a few social media myths that we can probably all agree are out-of-date thinking at best, and dangerous advice at worst. Social Media is Free. So let’s make it simple – social media is not free. Sure, you can bootstrap your way around social media – but free it ain’t. Social Media Levels the Playing Field. Conclusion. MORE >>

ll resist that urge, though, and instead present a plea: Let’s make 2011 the year we stop talking about “social media.”. It’s not that social media is no longer important. On the contrary, today there’s almost no media today that isn’t social. Ten years ago, almost no one had heard of Google, there was no online video and consumer ratings were unknown. Much of this change will be brought about by a few elegantly simple tools: Ethernet, the Internet Protocol, hypertext, RSS, HTML and a handful of others. Stunning. Barnum, BTW). MORE >>

So how would they fit into social media? Okay, so there’s no Heaven in social media (unless you count a night on Gary Vaynerchuk’s wine recommendations!), What do you hope to get out of social media? If you’re a new arrival to social media, it can be difficult to find that piece of social media earth to steady yourself on. Do you want to build a presence primarily on social networks and move away from a more traditional web presence, as Skittles did? Social Media branding social mediaAbove. MORE >>