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The Next Big Thing in Social Networks

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How much information are you willing to make public in order to improve your social networking experience? With the introduction of Foursquare and other location-based services, we started publishing our precise location data, and now with Blippy , our friends can see our credit card purchases as we make them.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. In other words, they are not using a social network. The idea is not to teach them to use social networks.

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Garrison Keillor On: When everyone’s a writer, no one is

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Interesting piece in the Baltimore Sun by Garrison Keillor on the death of publishing and intellectualism. Keillor takes on the self-publishing movement (as might any author of a “real&# book): “And if you want to write, you just write and publish yourself. No need to ask permission, just open a website. No problem.

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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

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None of this applies to the so-called online conversation: Anything you publish online could potentially be visible to millions of people. If you publish a tweet via Twitter, even if you delete it, some search engines maintain cache, a kind of memory, and will retain the information contained in the tweet.

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Network World: SocialCorp “Must-Read” Social Media Book

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This morning’s Network World offers a list (also published in Computerworld ) of five “must-read&# social media marketing books and suggests it’s “time to get smart with these 5 essential books.&# The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite, and Win through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking by Maria Azua.

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Harmless Twitter Prank or Malicious Act?

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People may not realize that every tweet is visible across the web the instant it’s published. This serves as a reminder of the potential privacy risks of social networking. Tags: Blogging Social Media privacy tos Twitter TOS twitter.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Based on the comments the piece received, I’ve updated it and Talent Zoo published it this morning. They search social network profiles on Facebook, Twitter, etc.; read blog content; and generally look at every available piece of candidate information found online.