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"Ban social media as a distraction? No, it boosts productivity" Any manager who thinks staff should be banned from using social media at work is seriously misguided and could be doing grave damage to the business.

"The future of digital culture-yours, mine, and ours-depends on how well we learn to use the media that have infiltrated, amplified, distracted, enriched, and complicated our lives. How you employ a search engine, stream video from your phonecam, or update your Facebook status matters to you and everyone, because the ways people use new media in the first years of an emerging communication regime can influence the way those media end up being used and misused for decades to come. Instead of confining my exploration to whether or not Google is making us stupid, Facebook is commoditizing our privacy, or Twitter is chopping our attention into microslices (all good questions), I've been asking myself and others how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and above all mindfully. This book is about what I've learned."

Billions of people use social media everyday, all over the world. Once you start using networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube often enough, you start to notice that people share similar (and often rather annoying) online media habits, and can be categorised into common personality types.

Steve Dale shares some amazing facts and trends about social media

Michal Norton's (LGID) brilliant Top Trumps variant on Social Media.

In 2009, the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth released one of the first studies of the Fortune 500's adoption and usage of one of the best-known forms of social media - blogging. This new study revisits and refreshes that prior in-depth study and expands to look at the Fortune 500's usage of the most dramatically growing new social media site - the microblogging service Twitter.

A useful common-sense guide to effective posting on social media 

" KM V's Social Media - Gen Y V's Baby Boomers? Thought provoking article about the different generational approaches. Discussion board thread on this can be found here : http://www.ki-network.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1149#post1149"

A nice take on Maslo for the Social Media age

"Series of short video clips on what social media is and how businesses can make the most of it in the future.."

"Interesting Knowledge Board article on the use of Social Media inside organisations to increase internal interactions. "

"I don't quite recall how it happened anymore, but in September 2008, I wrote a post for the Enterprise 2.0 blog titled Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War.  The post - probably the purest piece of deliberate flamebait I've ever written - went viral. Many of you found ribbonfarm via that post."

Social search - is Google missing a trick?

Steve, have you tried Greplin and if so what's your experience? Does it negate the need for other search tools (I don't want a proliferation of search tools)? Does the indexing slow up your machine?

Gary, it does a better search of your social networks than Google, probably because you're giving it permission to index them. You still need a general search engine (such as Google) for the broader internet content. Indexing has no impact on your machine. I haven't used it long enough to determine whether or not it's features are useful enough to make it my first choice search engine for social media/social network content.