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"CoTweet allows multiple people to communicate through corporate Twitter accounts and stay in sync while doing so. With CoTweet, you can: * Engage people throughout your company - Share the job of being on duty. Tap the collective wisdom of people across functional areas like marketing, PR and customer service. Assign tasks and track follow-ups. * Focus on the conversations that matter - Know when you need to jump in. Track your exchanges through simple case management. Schedule updates to make company announcements. * Keep your brand human - Automatically include signatures in your updates to identify who's talking and keep conversations personal."

Nice basic article on Ning, viral networks and the economics of SNSs from Fast Company

"The FTC is planning to hold marketers liable for false statements published on blogs and social networks-meaning companies or bloggers could get sued for saying a product was good if it really wasn't."

The largest online database of social media policies from companies, governments, non-profits.

The material in this talk is the basis for his later writing in the book Here Comes Everybody.  | "In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning."

Article on the different strategies of Google v. Facebook and the different strategies of mining biographical and other user data as practiced by the two companies. From Wired.

"So much for "free" as the future of business - as far as Ning goes, anyway. The company accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, and they apparently want more of a return than Ning is able to provide as a free service."

"These are the post-bureaucratic realities that tomorrow's employees will use as yardsticks in determining whether your company is 'with it' or 'past it.'"

"Altimeter has conducted a research project to find out how companies are connecting social technologies to the overall buying process as well as analyzing how they increase revenues for brands."

From August 2010: "The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday that a California marketing company had settled charges that it engaged in deceptive advertising by having its employees write and post positive reviews of clients' games in the Apple iTunes Store, without disclosing that they were being paid to do so.

Discussion of Ning's successes in the aftermath of the big changes in 2010.

"Import posts from your site or blog, or copy/paste from a manuscript. Edit content and drag it into chapters, then congratulations ... you're an eBook author!"