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The Washington-based Medic Mobile non profit recently released a video promoting a test version of one of its new products called PatientView. Its aim is to give hospitals in rural African areas the ability to manage patient information through cell phones.

"Below you'll find a section dedicated to our recent slew of Social Good resources including apps, trends, and several surveys of modern fundraising. We've also got all the classics in our Social Mediasocial mediasocial media section with resources on how DiggDiggDigg can survive, details on fashion week, and the future of social media journalism. Tech & Mobile has iPad apps for TwitterTwitterTwitter power users, and some guides on Internet ExplorerInternet ExplorerInternet Explorer 9. Finally, Business reveals details on popular startups, how to pick a great office location, and how to hire a designer."

Crowd Accelerated Innovation. Think about how mobile affects this concept.

97% are you kidding me!!! That's over a billion people!

I think it going to happen much sooner than that! The wave has begun. Interview With Mark Zuckerberg On The "Facebook Phone"

Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.

Web 3.0 is mostly to do with the massive amounts of active and passive data we are generating. An example of passive data is phone calls from mobile devices. Bandwidth is increasing, which enables video, audio and graphic sharing and data. Hoffman advocates thinking hard about it and acting to protect data. Think about what kind of future we want to create.

Social media and mobile apps are more and more being used in emergency and disaster response solutions and initiatives.

A group of Nigerian grassroots organizations and agencies have joined together to form ReclaimNaija, in an effort to provide the Nigerian electorate a way to report on the elections as they happen. ReclaimNaija documents how citizens are experiencing the elections by using FrontlineSMS to receive and send text message reports, and Ushahidi to visually map the election reports received. It is very exciting to see FrontlineSMS being used in this way, especially because one of the first public use cases of the software was during the last Nigerian elections in 2007.

The Organic Farmer radio shows in Kenya use mobile and radio technology as a platform for collaboration and sharing farming information in local communities. "The Organic Farmer shows the value of using SMS and radio together. While text messaging offers a method of interaction with listeners, John says, "We can't rely on SMS alone, since we can't send a whole paragraph, only the basic information." Radio provides a platform to explore topics in depth, but John suggests, "Radio is not a stand-alone medium - radio must be supported by other tools. SMS allows us to do that.""

UNSOCIAL addresses a key need for more advanced networking tools to drive real-time relationships for business. Through its location-based networking and smart-tagging platform, UNSOCIAL connects users with business professionals they should meet based on shared information and proximity, making it the ideal tool to find and be found at business events, tradeshows and conferences. In the rapidly growing tech arena of mobile, location-based services and events marketing.

Some great points on social media from the New Zealand State Services Commission wiki. Make it findable. Search is good, but tangible evidence that the discussion is happening is better. 'Most viewed' or 'latest discussions' are simple ways of showing that evidence, and are based on how people click their way through your site. Make it navigable. Create linkages between related contributions, so that one contribution leads to another, which leads to another, and so on. This breaks down isolation between participants, gives them a sense of discovery and encourages them to respond to new things they've found. Tagging and tag clouds are one great way of making user-generated content navigable, by helping people see connections between their ideas and the ideas of others. Make it portable. Prompt people to bring the discussion into their own context -- at home, at work, or on other sites. This will draw in more people to the discussion and help everyone feel connected to what's happening on their own terms. APIs, widgets and gadgets are key tools for doing this. Make it personable. It's important to know that there is a someone -- not a something -- behind the ideas. Social media, like blogs, are compelling because they have personality and a sense of authenticity behind them. Seek ways for people to add personality to their contributions.

Alternative to Instagram on iOS

Social networking is generally more common in higher income nations; however, this is largely driven by the fact that wealthier countries have higher rates of internet access. People in lower income nations who have online access use social networking at rates that are as high, or higher, than those found in affluent countries.

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street protests, this year has been full of political turmoil and unrest--and if there's one recurring trend we've noticed, it's that the most timely, powerful coverage doesn't come from a cable news channel, but from normal people on the ground floor.

I can't think of a better example of Deep Social Networking that the case study in this video. Skip ahead to around 7:00, especially from 8:30 to the end where they talk about Ushahidi.

I encourage everyone to this out! Especially in light of the draft paper we are working on.

Regarding the paper, given that Indonesia hit hard by the tsunami of 2004, the readers might respond well to this case study involving social media and mobile.

"the iPad has the fastest adoption rate ever, even faster than the DVD player in 1997" -unbelievable!

Fast Follow allows you to get Tweets from your favorite Twitter users on your phone by sending one simple message, even without a Twitter account

Hey everyone, Fast Follow is available in Indonesia!

People are realizing the desktop computing era is over, just as all of us have known all along :)

This is an important development in social networking that would allow collaboration between people living in very remote areas with limited Internet access.