Social Business Strategies

It's hard to be sure in Payton's case, but, strangely enough, ambivalence may play a key role. As in: The greater a leader's ambivalence toward a strategic situation, the greater the likelihood he or she will respond by taking action in a novel, risky way.

If you were to look at Social Media the United States and many other parts of the world, you would believe that the world of Social Media was flat, dominated by social continents including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube, and Flickr. As we zoom in, we visualize other established and emerging social services that depict provinces and outlying settlements of our social atlas.

Now, new data released by Facebook and third party researchers show just how influential Facebook has become in our daily lives. Combined with several critical adjustments to how Facebook publishes "news" and intersects with other sites, the state of Facebook is mind-blowing. And important for business. Here's 11 things about Facebook that you need to know:

While Facebook is in the midst of rolling out their homepage to more than 400 million Facebook users, the company is also preparing to upgrade their search product through a greater integration with Bing. We've written extensively about the opportunity for Facebook to upgrade their search product (what we called at the time the "real social search engine"). It appears that Bing will be a greater part of Facebook's search product for the time being.

How and what you measure, and how you define ROI is very much dependent on what vertical market you play in.

Before the Internet, I made more trips to the library and more phone calls. I read more books and my point of view was narrower and less informed. I walked more, biked more, hiked more, and played more. I made love more often. The seductive online sages, scholars, and muses that joyfully take my curious mind where ever it needs to go, where ever it can imagine going, whenever it wants, are beguiling. All my beloved screens offer infinite, charming, playful, powerful, informative, social windows into global human experience.

"People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Feb 4, 2010"

We need our schools to embrace these tools to both become more effective as well as to embrace change instead of resist it

"The Roles of Facebook and Twitter in Social Media Marketing"

I am certainly glad to see it is not all downhill for us as we age...

Even successful tweeting requires a strategy

"Athletes Confused by Olympic Social Media Rules"

New job anyone??

"A Short (and Personal) History of Social Media"

Manpower's recent study, "Social Networks vs. Management? Harness the Power of Social Media," indicates that 75% of employers worldwide say their organizations do not have a formal policy regarding the use of social networking sites at work. Only 20% of employers do have a formal policy, and only 63% of those say their policy is effective at avoiding productivity loss.

A new partnership between Bravo and the mobile social gaming platform Foursquare hopes to engage viewers long after they turn off the television and close the lid on their laptops.

Irregardless that Tjan is discussing a concept I developed last year (in fact I debuted it on a radion broadcast I did with Nate (4/23/09))...this is a great metaphor and one worth reading

Little bit deep and I think I will have to read it a few more times before I catch all the points but it is something that will make your re-evaluate your network strategy

Reading this reinforces that specialization is for ants and that we need to underdstand how the entire system works in order to lead it

Cool insights into how our brains process infromation and why we may do what we do.