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BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Why Drugmakers Don't Twitter The FDA has so far failed to craft rules clarifying how pharmaceutical companies can participate in online discussions.
InternetNews November 19, 2009	Yahoo Adds Twitter to News Results Breaking news stories now highlight relevant top Twitter feeds.
Search Engine Watch November 19, 2009 Sage Lewis	The Promotion Recipe Are your social media contacts numb to your promotions? Spice them up using these tips.
InternetNews November 18, 2009	Salesforce Debuts a Facebook for the Enterprise At Dreamforce 2009, Benioff introduces Chatter, aimed at bridging the gap separating content, applications and people.
InternetNews November 18, 2009	Facebook Adopts Simplified Privacy Policy Facebook has formalized an update to its privacy rules in an effort to bring clarity and simplicity to the social networking giant's policies.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Plan B for News Corp. If it can't catch up to Facebook as a social network, News Corp. may as well be the leader in social music or music discovery sites.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Is Facebook Finally Slowing Down? Facebook has been slow in announcing 350 million members.
TIME Europe November 23, 2009 Dan Fletcher	YouTube Effect: Making Money from Viral Videos Keyboard Cat has generated some $20,000. A look at smart moves for stupid snippets
Home Theater November 16, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	Here Comes YouTube 1080p Is this the biggest HD move since the digital TV transition?
Search Engine Watch November 16, 2009 Ron Jones	Facebook Marketing 101 Tips on promoting your Facebook fan page, engaging your audience, and how to be found in real-time searches.
Search Engine Watch November 16, 2009 Erik Qualman	Social Media Success Stories What is the ROI of social media? Consider these success stories before activating your calculator.
T.H.E. Journal November 13, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	Educator Use of Social Networking Lags Behind Interest Educators suggested some factors inhibiting the growth of this technology in educational settings include privacy concerns, schools/districts that block access to these Web sites, and time pressure.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	YouTube to Support High-Res 1080p Videos Bigger, clearer videos coming to YouTube as Google continues to tinker with monetization strategies.
InternetNews November 13, 2009	Clicker Aims to Be TV Guide for Net Video Former Ask.com CEO brings out Clicker, a kind of 21st century TV Guide for Internet videos.
InternetNews November 12, 2009	Retweet Redux: Twitter's New Feature Hits Snag Facing an unexpected wave of errors, Twitter has halted the roll-out of its controversial retweet feature.
CIO November 11, 2009 Kristin Burnham	Coping With Social Media Burnout Whether you're struggling to see the value or finding yourself drowning in a sea of tweets, we explain how you can work social media into your workday and still get "real work" done.
InternetNews November 11, 2009	Twitter Debuts Native Retweet Feature Controversy attends Twitter's delivery of a native version of one of its most widely used features.
CIO October 1, 2009 Jeremy Kirk	Web Gurus Reveal How to Attract and Keep Users Anyone who is building a Web-based community, whether it be a social network or other application, faces the same initial hurdle as sites such as Digg did: getting those first few regular users can be quite difficult.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Facebook Groups Hijacked in the Name of Security Organization claims its tactics are designed to point out vulnerabilities in social networking site's group administration protocol.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Twitter, LinkedIn Join Forces Social sites sync up to create two-way flow of communication.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	Google's Gift: Free Airport Wi-Fi Google bestows a gift in airports for travelers, while Yahoo takes Manhattan.
TIME Europe November 16, 2009 Lev Grossman	The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars More people play Mafia Wars than live in Australia. Or maybe it's playing them
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Murdoch Plans to Pull News Sites From Google Hell-bent on charging for online news content, media mogul details plans for post-pay-wall Google boycott.
Search Engine Watch November 9, 2009 Liana Evans	Your Social Media Content Must Be Valuable Listening to your audience in social media communities talk about the best features of your product should give you insight into how to provide them with valuable content.
Search Engine Watch November 9, 2009 Ron Jones	Facebook Fan Pages 101 Marketers, organizations, and businesses can reach out to customers using Facebook's group pages and fan pages.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	EA Goes Fishing in Facebook's Pond Social-network game maker Playfish gets reeled in by Electronic Arts
Bank Systems & Technology November 2, 2009 Nathan Conz	HSBC Leverages Online Commenters in Marketing Campaign HSBC has teamed with blog and article commenters on nymag.com as part of the bank's recent marketing campaign.
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 Jennifer Demski	The WoW Factor For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies - and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.
InternetNews November 6, 2009	Microsoft Sites Up Big in Time Spent Online Software titan may run a weak third in Web searches, but its sites are high on users' agendas.
InternetNews November 6, 2009	Coupon Site Targets Black Friday, Cyber Monday RetailMeNot said it's ready to deliver the best "Black Friday" deals to consumers this holiday season.
InternetNews November 6, 2009	Facebook, MySpace Talk Tough on App Scams Social networking leaders tighten policies about deceptive ads in third-party apps.
Insurance & Technology November 3, 2009	Judge: Spammer Owes Facebook $711 Million A U.S. judge says an Internet marketer known as the Spam King must pay the Facebook Web site $711 million in damages.
CRM November 2009 Clara Shih	Facebook Is the Future of CRM Only social media can put the customer back into CRM.
InternetNews November 5, 2009	Does the Internet Really Wreck Your Social Life? New study seeks to debunk notion that always-on connectivity leads to offline isolation.
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2009 Sage Lewis	Do Follow Pros and cons of building links through blog comments.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	MSN Home Page Getting an Extreme Makeover Microsoft says the home page revamp will be the most extensive update it has had in ten years.
InternetNews November 4, 2009	Google Friend Connect Gets Personal The Internet giant fosters community - and more opportunities to make cash - with a significant upgrade to its social Web service.
InternetNews November 3, 2009	Mobile Tweeting Device Debuts Hardcore Twitter users get their own dedicated hardware.
Inc. November 1, 2009 Max Chafkin	19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now There are millions of blogs out there. And most of them aren't worth your time. So we scoured the Web and came up with a list of the smartest bloggers, who just might help you run a better business
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2009 David Stuart	Social Media Metrics Social media has been adopted by every type of library in recent years, from small special libraries to large national ones.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2009 Dee Richardson	Staying Connected After a Layoff This is not your grandfather's recession. Today, laid-off workers have myriad resources available to help them stay in touch with former colleagues.
Search Engine Watch November 2, 2009 Erik Qualman	Banning Social Media Is Counterproductive Just as we now look back on the movie "Footloose" as being rather silly, the same will probably apply to the social media site bans at work and in schools.
Search Engine Watch November 2, 2009 Ron Jones	Facebook 101 The basics to know before joining the popular social media site, including tips on setting up your account, privacy, and helpful applications.
Search Engine Watch October 30, 2009 Michael Boland	Local and Social: It's all Coming Together Google and Bing strike deals giving them access to real-time social feeds. What does it mean for the future of local search?
CRM October 2009 Christopher Musico	Market Focus: Sports & Entertainment -- First Star I Tweet Tonight Even a diehard fan wants to know the person behind it all.
Bank Technology News November 2009 Maria Aspan, American Banker	TD Tweets About Conversion Outage While TD Bank's "once-a-decade" systems failure earlier this fall might have a serious impact on its reputation for convenience and reliability, it also offered an unusual customer-service opportunity: managing a crisis almost exclusively through Twitter.
Information Today October 29, 2009	Dialog All A-Twitter Dialog intends to tweet news and opportunities of all types.
CIO October 28, 2009 Kristin Burnham	How Scottrade Got Workers to Love Social Networking An intranet revamp was the catalyst for enterprise deployment of social networking tools such as Facebook-style home pages, blogs and wikis.
Entrepreneur November 2009 Kara Ohngren	The New Tastemakers Social media meets online retailing at ThisNext.com, making everyone a critic.
Search Engine Watch October 26, 2009 Liana Evans	How to Earn Respect in Social Media Just because you and your company are a big deal in the offline world doesn't mean you'll win friends and influence in social networks.
Information Today October 22, 2009	New Network for Chinese Researchers With a goal of reducing the barriers separating Chinese researchers from their counterparts in the U.S. and Europe, Anianet announced the launch of the Anianet professional network
Information Today October 19, 2009	Springer Launches TheNeuroNetwork.com The website offers an online community and networking site for those studying neural activities in the brain (invertebrate to human), including brainlike systems and networks.
Search Engine Watch October 19, 2009 Erik Qualman	Four Steps to Social Media Marketing Success Companies that appropriately engage in these four steps will take their product or service to the top.
CRM October 1, 2009 Barton Goldenberg	The Final Steps Are Just the Beginning The Journey of Implementation - Part 3: A successful social media initiative merely opens up future possibilities.
Information Today October 15, 2009 Woody Evans	Disinformation.com Renovates for Web 2.0 Longtime countercultural website Disinformation.com has lately made changes that moves it solidly into a Web 2.0 community news portal.
Fast Company November 2009 Chuck Salter	Can Hulu Save Traditional TV? Can Jason Kilar and his hit site Hulu save traditional TV from itself while remaking it for the future?
Fast Company November 2009 Dan Macsai	Cut Your Cable: Hulu's Top 10 TV Shows "Family Guy" and "The Office" are leaders on Hulu's top 10 list of TV shows.
Fast Company November 2009 Dan Macsai	Hulu's Competitors: The Wild World of Web TV Media giants and start-ups - not to mention pirates - are chasing an online-video audience of 158 million. Here's how key players connect to, and compete with, Hulu.
Fast Company November 2009 Dan Macsai	Hulu: The Second Life of Network Shows Hulu has made online hits of network also-rans.
Search Engine Watch October 12, 2009 Liana Evans	Who Owns the Social Media Conversation? Your company is more than just one person; make sure your social media strategy reflects that.
Search Engine Watch October 12, 2009 Ron Jones	Google Wave 101 Check out Google's new real-time platform combining instant messaging, e-mail, document creation, and collaboration.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	Chile Turns to Social Media To Expand English Literacy The federal government of Chile has chosen social media service Mingoville.com to provide the tools the nation's students will need to achieve fluency in English.
MyBusiness Oct/Nov 2009 Harvey King	Putting Twitter to Work for Your Business While many small businesses have dismissed Twitter as silly or time-wasting - or have ignored it altogether - others have discovered innovative ways to utilize the service.
Humanities Sep/Oct 2009 Meredith Hindley	Impertinent Questions With Kathleen Fitzpatrick A professor of media studies at Pomona College is one of the brains behind one of the brains behind the National Endowment for the Humanities funded MediaCommons, a digital scholarly network for students and academics.
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