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Employers grappling with social network use

The IntelBuilder platform provides an opportunity to publish content and updates on corporate websites and automatically submit it across all major networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook; and major bookmarking sites such as Digg and Delicious with one click. The platform also allows distributing content to Google News and other major news and media providers automatically. Additionally, IntelBuilder lets users effectively manage their readership and subscription and monitor website traffic and statistics

web-based software solutions that help businesses of all sizes to enhance productivity by increasing efficiency and overall profitability.

Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service.

the Internet has changed considerably in the last half-decade and that those changes have reached a tipping point that’s enabling brand new business models, unleashing a wave of innovative products, influencing public behavior on a large scale, and in particular, resulting in entirely new types of online businesses.

Today’s World Wide Web is a larger ecosystem and with far more brainpower and activity that any single organization could ever hope to match.

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: Strategic or tactical? For many managers and workers however, these great and historical shifts are beyond their scope or mandate, and they just want incremental improvements to their area of the business and avoid obsolescence. In fact, this is currently one of the more sustained and germane aspects of Web 2.0 for most businesses in the short term and is an important part of Web 2.0 in the enterprise story. Most organizations will be focusing on tactical experiments and pilot efforts as they begin to dabble with Web 2.0 and see how they can apply it to their local corporate culture and unique business situations. But whether one is looking at completely transforming a business at a strategic level, or just applying a few Web 2.0 techniques to a corner of a business that can benefit from it, the message is clearer and clearer business leaders: Significant change is afoot and now is the time to start looking hard at how to embrace it.

1. Introduce the purpose of social media

2. Be responsible for what you write

3. Be authentic

NFL has a Twitter policy, Barneys New York (visited by many a Greengrass patron) does not.

Spiffbox is looking to shake up social networking by rewarding its users with cash for participating.

Spiffbox utilizes Facebook Connect and Twitter and is meant to build on top of pre-existing social networks instead of trying to build their own unique user base. Instead of trying to be another communication platform for you and your friends, it is intended to help you engage with people outside of your social graph. The focus here is on expert advice as well as career promotion and advancement.

We are starting to see a trend of social-networking sites rewarding users for their actions.

BlueShirtNation: Success from Risking Failure

Social networking driving mobile data boom

Forget music and video downloads, social networking is driving the growth explosion in mobile data usage, analysts said today.