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Now for some HIGHLIGHTS: 30% of investors use twitter to help investigate companies. Investor reliance on digital media to gather information doubled since 2010. 86% of investors say online (blogs, social media) sources have become more important this year with investors. Investors making use of a number of different digital sources (company website, syndicated and traditional online publications, and social media). 56% of investors report that the influence of digital and social media is increasing in their investment decision process. Along with the growth of investor consumption of digital information, investors are also using social media & digital media to contribute investment information. 24% of investors report making an investment decision after sourcing information from blogs. 61% of US investors have been prompted to investigate an issue further after reading about it in a blog post.

The IBM Institute for Business Value's report, The Business of Social Business, is full of research and survey data that can help in understanding how organizations are "seeing the value of applying social approaches, internally as well as externally.

The more social circles or Facebook friends a person has, the more likely social media can become a source of stress, Scottish researchers say. The more groups of people in someone's Facebook friends, researchers at the University of Edinburgh Business School reported, the greater the potential to cause offense, particularly if employers or parents are included. Stress rises when users present a version of themselves on Facebook that is unacceptable to some of their online "friends," the researchers said. Some 55 percent of parents follow their children on Facebook, they said, while more than half of employers have admitted to not hiring someone based on the applicant's Facebook page. "Facebook used to be like a great party for all your friends where you can dance, drink and flirt," Edinburgh researcher Ben Marder said. "But now with your Mum, Dad and boss there, the party becomes an anxious event full of potential social landmines." The researchers surveyed more than 300 people on Facebook, mostly students, with an average age of 21."

"Despite intentions to rapidly accelerate social initiatives, many companies are still figuring out whether real returns can be gained on social investments. Two-thirds of respondents were not sure they sufficiently understood the impact that social technologies would have on their organizations over the next three years. "

NN/G's latest analysis of the social intranet space.   Summary:  "Employee collaboration and open communication are now business drivers in many companies, but social enterprise features are often poorly integrated with the rest of the intranet."

Spirit Airlines is notorious for noticing a trend in conversation and making quick use of it. 

A nice deck from our friend Tom at Trendstream, looking at the current worldwide social media usage stats and emerging usage patterns:

Social media stats for big platforms as of Jan 2012

With the tremendous excitement around Social Media and Social Business, there are pressures on organizations to embrace "all things social", on how Social tenets can transform a business; citing agility, empowerment, employee engagement, increased market reputation, improving customer relationships, and providing an overall competitive advantage.

Spot on summary of recent Gartner report that supports out approach to social employee engagement (social business)

Three London based students have got together to try and build a social network that seamlessly links brands with customers. Social scientist Edward Heywood, computer engineer Peregrine Park, and business management student Sharan Soni have put their skills together to create Urban Cloud - "a social network that unites people on a platform designed to promote collaboration".

Every day, 40% of the world's population goes online to engage in social networking, and this infographic provides a snapshot of the social media activity in a day, split by platform. Social media ...

Private social networks for business: Edward Saatchi, son of advertising guru Maurice Saatchi, believes online social media can have the same impact on business as it has had with consumers.

A great case study on corp/consumer social media 

At last - some primary research into content sharing on websites.  Main finding:  social media sharing isn't much used on B2B sites.  Which chimes with our experience from site stats.

"This deck sets out We Are Social's... things that we believe will drive and shape our social and digital future over the months to come."

"Journalist's Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don't have to. Here are 10 of the studies about social and digital media they found most interesting in 2012."

"According to a recent study called State of Social Technology and Talent Management, commissioned by SilkRoad, 75 percent of leaders in human resources and talent management believe their companies are behind the curve regarding both internal and external social networking technology."