While convincing people that LinkedIn is a good professional tool is not hard, many folks are not using Facebook for anything other than communicating with friends or playing games, and are not using Twitter at all; articulating the business value of Facebook and Twitter to those people can be challenging. Twitter. LinkedIn. MORE >>

Tomorrow morning I am giving the keynote at City of Port Phillip’s inaugural Breakfast Briefing session for the year in St Kilda, Melbourne, on the topic of Building Business in a Connected World. Building Business in a Connected World. Here are event details and registration. View more presentations from rossdawson. MORE >>

Most of you know that Twitter can be used for much more than just announcing what you ate for breakfast. Many of you already know Twitter’s value in business, but you can still take it further and use it to land gigs, market your business, grow your network and gain free publicity — all in 140 characters or less. Marketing. MORE >>

The GigaOM team took 10 areas and examined how connectivity has profoundly changed them and will continue to change them in the future. Twitter ZipcarWe’ll dive into these ideas in even more detail at our GigaOM RoadMap event on Nov. 10 in San Francisco. Drive the next always-on gadget. Katie Fehrenbacher. Jessica Stillman. MORE >>

Finding it hard to keep up with contacts spread across email, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn? Connected is a new service that connects to your various online accounts and consolidates your contacts into a constantly updated online address book, with a single, easy-to-navigate interface. CNN connected gist social CRM MORE >>