Official blog for UK Military Operations in Afghanistan. Transparently writes on fatalities, deployed units and external media reports.

UK Ministry of Defense: "The aim of this guidance is to enable Service and MOD personnel to make full use of online presences while protecting their own, Service, and Departmental interests, and to enable Commanders and communicators to harness this to communicate Defence." (Link to PDF) via @BendlerBlogger

Todd Defren: "Advertising comes AFTER relationships."

Todd Defren: "This is a guest post by Lou Hoffman, CEO of one of our competitors, the Hoffman Agency. Lou blogs at Ishmael's Corner. Why allow a competitor to use my space? Why not? It's a new world. We can claw & pound away on the battlefield and still be friends in the blogosphere. Also, he asked nicely. "

"With a growing number of pharma companies testing the waters of social media, an intrepid few have tried to keep track of every site, YouTube video, Twitterer, Facebook page, and so on. It's become a daunting task and no one list seems to have it all, so we created the Pharma and Healthcare Social Media Wiki"

"As you may already know, Eurostar, who are a client of ours, had a major crisis today. Five Eurostar trains suffered electrical breakdowns in the channel tunnel, leaving passengers stuck on trains in very unpleasant conditions, and even more were left stranded as all of today's Eurostar services were cancelled. As you would expect with any event of this nature, this very quickly became big news on Twitter and elsewhere in social media."

"These are the official guidelines for social media at Intel. If you're an Intel employee or contractor creating or contributing to blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds, or any other kind of social media both on and off intel.com-these guidelines are for you. We expect all who participate in social media on behalf of Intel to be trained, to understand and to follow these guidelines. Failure to do so could put your future participation at risk. These guidelines will continually evolve as new technologies and social networking tools emerge-so check back once in awhile to make sure you're up to date."

"Thinking about what to read during the holidays? Well, there is no need to spend any more time on that - here is your reading list ;-)" via @zoernert

Facebook Widgets: Share anywhere on the web

Text in German but links to English guidelines

B.L. Ochman gives us 7 reasons but my fave reason ist no. 7: "7. Because blogging is fun"

"Also, hier der Überblick: Grundsätzlich unterscheiden wir hier zwei Richtungen: * Integrierte Lösungen: Produkte, die Teil einer größeren, umfassenderen Groupware- oder Wiki-Lösung sind. * Stand-alone: Produkte, die als separater Service genutzt werden können, insbesondere als SaaS oder in Form einer Software-Lizenz. Einige davon lassen sich relativ problemlos in bestehende Sharepoint oder Wiki-Lösungen einbauen, wie zum Beispiel die Lösung von Communote. Diese sind also integrierbar (womit meine Aufteilung schon fast wieder hinfällig wird, nun gut….)"

"Ein wichtiger Teil unserer Social Media „Weltanschauung" resultiert aus unserem eigenem Social Intranet. Es basiert auf dem Enterprise Wiki Confluence von Atlassian und heisst bei uns intern einfach nur „Teamweb". Das Teamweb ist jetzt über ein Jahr alt und mit etwas Abstand zu den Feierlichkeiten möchte ich im Folgenden unsere Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse aus diesem Jahr beschreiben."

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"Wikis, Blogs und Messenger halten unaufhaltsam Einzug in Unternehmen. Fraglich ist aber noch, wie sich die digitalen Chats archivieren lassen. Nun gibt es erste standardisierte Lösungen. von Wilko Steinhagen"

Ross Dawson "had a very interesting meeting yesterday with Deloitte Digital's CEO Peter Williams, someone who is always on the vanguard of innovation in professional services."

Bill Ives spoke with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ, about their enterprise micro-messaging experiences

"SAP recently announced a new set of Social Media Participation Guidelines and an internal forum to help employees make the most of new social media channels such as Blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. In the spirit of Web 2.0, and like other organizations such as Intel and IBM, we would like to share our guidelines with the community."