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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.
InternetNews October 30, 2009	Facebook Wins $711M in 'Spam King' Lawsuit Judge grants default judgment against Sanford Wallace for "false and misleading" e-mails on social networking site.
InternetNews October 30, 2009	Online Video Embraces YouTube, TV Deals Multiple delivery models plus creative talent cause some video sites to shine over others.
InternetNews October 30, 2009	Social Networks: IT Giants Are Ready to Rock Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and others are bullish on social networks and collaboration, but implementation will be a challenge for many enterprises.
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.
InternetNews October 29, 2009	Facebook Rejiggers Privacy Rules Following Probe Social-networking giant lives up to its agreement with Canadian authorities and now seeks comment from users.
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.
InternetNews October 28, 2009	Bartz: Yahoo Will Rise Again CEO Carol Bartz greets analyst community with emphatic promise to revive slumping Internet giant Yahoo.
Entrepreneur November 2009 Kara Ohngren	The New Tastemakers Social media meets online retailing at ThisNext.com, making everyone a critic.
InternetNews October 27, 2009	Facebook Offers 'Permanent' Online Memorials Social network gives users the ability to establish a profile on the service in memory of deceased friends and relatives.
InternetNews October 27, 2009	Citizens Happier Than Ever With e-Gov Sites New survey highlights progress in government's march to the Internet.
InternetNews October 26, 2009	Google Taking Search Social Social Search experiment goes live in effort to redraw search along the lines of the social graph.
InternetNews October 26, 2009	Protests Greet Facebook's Redesign, Again After Facebook dropped word late Friday afternoon that it was rolling out another set of changes to the layout of its home page, users flooded the site with thousands of comments, many coarsely negative, objecting to the redesign and threatening to abandon the site.
InternetNews October 26, 2009	White House Taps Drupal to Open Source Site WhiteHouse.gov, the official Web site for the president of the United States, is now based on open source technology.
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.
InternetNews October 22, 2009	Google Co-Founder Surprises Web 2.0 Summit Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder and president of technology, hits on several issues during an unscheduled appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit today.
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
InternetNews October 22, 2009	Facebook's Got Rhythm, Starts Music Sales Facebook jumps on the digital music bandwagon by selling songs in its gift shop.
InternetNews October 21, 2009	PeopleMaps Finds New and 'Hidden' Connections Innovative social app leverages the 'six degrees of separation' idea to show visually how you are connected to other people.
InternetNews October 21, 2009	Google: We've Got a Twitter Deal, Too On the heals of Microsoft's announcement, Google steps into the echo chamber.
InternetNews October 21, 2009	Twitter CEO: 'We're Optimistic About Revenue' Evan Williams admits growth rates for Twitter have slowed, but there are plans to spike more interest.
InternetNews October 21, 2009	Bing Bags Twitter Microsoft's Bing search engine now adds real-time tweets from Twitter in its results, with Facebook updates to come.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Will Google Rock? The search giant wants to be heard in the digital music realm, according to TechCrunch. Multiple sources are telling the tech blog that the launch of Google Audio is imminent.
InternetNews October 20, 2009	Facebook Groups Gets Facelift Tweak aims for improved accessibility, but is Facebook planning something more?
InternetNews October 19, 2009	Yahoo Earnings: Light at the End of the Tunnel? Analyst sees advertising regaining momentum while deal with Microsoft gets boost from ad agency group.
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.
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2009 Erik Qualman	Is Google a Social Media Company? In the future, we won't search for products and services: they'll find us via social media. Perhaps Google's stiffest competition in the immediate future isn't Bing and Yahoo, but rather it's the likes of Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook.
Inc. October 1, 2009	Second Opinion Readers comment on the usefulness of Twitter and compare the Palm Pre and the iPhone.
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.
Bank Technology News October 2009 Karen Epper Hoffman	What Consumers Really Want As online banking evolves into an ever-widening mainstream, the spotlight has focused on how customers can use the channel in tandem with social media or to build a bank-branded virtual world.
Information Today September 28, 2009	IBM Lotus Connections Adds Social Networking Features Lotus Connections 2.5, offers an expanded set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brings popular features like microblogging from the home into the business environment.
Information Today September 28, 2009	Glassdoor.com Offers Free Access to Career Resources for Libraries Anyone can find and anonymously share salary details about specific jobs for specific employers or company and interview reviews describing life on the inside of an employer -- all for free.
Search Engine Watch September 28, 2009 Liana Evans	What Is Your 'R' for ROI in Social Media? Each company needs to define its own "return" in their ROI when they implement social media strategies. You can have several reasons you want to implement a social media strategy, those can all be measured as a return.
CRM September 1, 2009	The 2009 CRM Market Awards: The 2009 Influential Leaders In the age-old battle between dreamers and visionaries, visionaries win out every time. The eight individuals honored this year may not be the biggest names in CRM-well, not all of them, anyway-but there's no doubt each one sports a powerful vision.
CRM September 1, 2009	The 2009 CRM Market Awards: The 2009 Rising Stars Six on the rise in 2009.
CRM September 1, 2009 Lauren McKay	The 2009 Influential Leaders - The Aggregator Guy Kawasaki has helped to legitimize Twitter for marketing.
CRM September 1, 2009 Christopher Musico	The 2009 Influential Leaders - The Event Horizon Tim O'Reilly helped bring the concept of "Web 2.0" to the masses.
CRM September 1, 2009 Jessica Tsai	The 2009 Influential Leaders - The Facilitator Chris Brogan has a following that extends from the enterprise to the entrepreneur, and to every social media user looking (hoping) to figure it all out.
CRM September 1, 2009 Jessica Tsai	The 2009 Influential Leaders - The Socialist The motto of Ross Mayfield's company, "putting social networking to work," is demonstrated by the very nature of its enterprise wiki, Workspace, which enhances knowledge sharing and collaboration, and in turn, promotes efficiency.
CRM September 1, 2009 Lauren McKay	The 2009 Rising Stars - Facebook Facebook's the hottest place on earth for consumers to connect to each other. But is it the place for businesses to connect to them, as well?
CRM September 1, 2009 Christopher Musico	The 2009 Rising Stars - Google Riding the cloud-computing wave.
Searcher September 2009 Thomas E. Wolff	The PIUG Wiki: Communication and Collaboration Par Excellence The Patent Information Users Group, Inc. (PIUG) was established in 1988 and became incorporated in 2000 to discuss issues and concerns relevant to the patent searcher community.
Wired September 21, 2009 Brendan I. Koerner	Jamie Heywood: Forget Medical Privacy Jamie Heywood hopes consumers will in turn share medical data with one another via online communities such as PatientsLikeMe, which will anonymize the data and sell it to medical researchers and drug developers.
Information Today September 24, 2009 Paula J. Hane	PBworks Adds Social Media Features to Enterprise Collaboration Suite PBworks, a provider of hosted collaboration solutions for business and education, is the latest vendor to add social media features.
Search Engine Watch September 24, 2009 Sage Lewis	Sage's Twitter Promotion Experiment How do people feel about selling or being sold in social media? Is charity one thing, but for-profit something different?
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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