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That social media marketing is big business isn't news, but how do you stand out in an increasingly crowded field? Here are five fresh ideas.

While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding "top" academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement and inaccessibility. We predict an upcoming social upheaval in academic publishing as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by the few to knowledge managed by the many. The technology trigger is socio-technical advances. The drive will be that only democratic knowledge exchange can scale up to support the breadth, speed and flexibility modern cross-disciplinary research needs. Part II suggests the sort of socio-technical design needed to bring this transformation about.

There is a lot of hardware out there beyond our computers that helps us plug into social media as well. Let's takes a look at the top 10 options in the social hardware category.

CIOs and IT directors are being overwhelmed by the choice of products in the social software market, making it difficult for organisations to decide what products to deploy.

Social networking, is really about people as sensors.Google Social Search is designed to let searches return traditional results along with updates and tweets that users' friends and other people they follow on various social networks have posted.

Plenty of businesses and nonprofit organizations have signed up for Twitter and Facebook, but are they using these social media outlets to their fullest potential?

Microsoft's new social media monitoring & management solution #LookingGlass http://bit.ly/3sAKWA

Microsoft's new social media monitoring & management solution #LookingGlass http://bit.ly/3sAKWA

As Twitter matures, the people who use it must follow or get left behind. How Twitter made the transition from novelty to an inseparable part of current social media.

Use FriendFee to keep up with the digital - Interesting read.

The NBA has banned all social media during games, including Twitter and Facebook. This contrasts the leagues' relationship with 'traditional media,' which has mostly been favorable and inclusive.

Nielsen releases the new figure which shows that Australians spent 1.6 million hours on social media sites in June this year. In the U.S.A, MySpace lost half of its maket share while its share has beed doubled in Australia

At the end of his keynote on Monday at Sharepoint 2009, an interviewer asked Steve Ballmer about social computing. He recounted a story about a friend of his, ...

In this article, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to analyze argumentative knowledge construction in CSCL from sampling and segmentation of the discourse corpora to the analysis of four pro- cess dimensions (participation, epistemic, argumentative, social mode).

It is debatable for networking sites to name some places, such as Taiwan, Tibet, to meet their users' needs. Recently, Facebook changed its listing for the Golan Heights under a pro-Israel group's pressure. How do social networking sites cope with these politics involved issues? It is still a question.

Premature results for the weekend's state elections published on social networking site Twitter have raised fears about how much influence such updates could have on German voters. Anyone found guilty of leaking the exit polls could face a fine of up to 50,000 euros.

Apparently it's not only the IRS using social media to find its targets, but burglars as well.

Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.

Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day.