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Ottawa’s Capital City News

Sherrilynne Starkie

A couple of weeks back Ottawa saw the launch of a new local community newspaper, Capital City News. News (Photo credit: Wikipedia). I counted one news story, five news in briefs, one sports story among all the PR stories and advertisements. My social capital in Ottawa.

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MUST WATCH: The state of the internet and group-forming

SocialFish

An almost equal number (57%) say that keeping up with news and information about subjects that matter to them is a major reason. He sees lots more groups forming in the future but also lots more people joining and leaving groups at a lower thresholds of participation and asks, “what does that do to social capital&# ?

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Rockyou fined and social media implications

Laurel Papworth

Online social gaming company, Rockyou with 32 million gamers, and $129,000,000 of funding, got fined $250,000 for revealing the usernames and passwords of their online community members, and putting at risk their webmail (Gmail, Yahoo etc) accounts. Crunchbase for the VC figures, Techspot for the news story.

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5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read This Week

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media Bootcamp: Facebook For Business | Main | The New Dork - Entrepreneur State of Mind » March 05, 2010 5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read This Week Theres a lot going on in the social media space and so much can get lost or overlooked in your RSS feed reader.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Either copy this feed address and paste it into your news reader software or click the relevant one-click subscription button: Feed URL: One click: Close. Human communication has always been about people and social capital. Subscribe to the BMJ blog feed here. Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterdayâ??s

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Why You're the Key to Social Media Success

Convince & Convert

Having said that, I am seeing more C suite execs wanting to learn about social media which is encouraging, but I get the feeling we are still very much in the education phase with most organisations. Companies still need a balanced strategy – and we need to make peace with the fact that for some, it may not include social media.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In a nutshell, I focus on Twitter for mostly professional discussion (sharing social media news and information), whereas Plurk is a less rigid platform and feels a lot less formal to me. July 3, 2008 at 9:17 am Insight Into the World of Plurk | Collective Thoughts July 3, 2008 at 3:49 pm Does Plurk’s Karma guage Social Capital?

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