The team of Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have been dong a number of studies on social media and business (see for example: Thinking Like A Blogger: Is Blogging An Attitude That Can Be Taught? ). This is the same definition used in the prior 2008 study.   MORE >>

Since it had been two years since I’d been to an Information Today Conference, I was really excited to attend Computers in Libraries and it did not disappoint. It was a fantastic learning and social experience with a much more diverse array of sessions than in previous years. And how many of them are MY library users? really like this idea. MORE >>

Here is a new article about Wikipedia; and a now-free issue of Libri that has a number of good information literacy and information behaviour articles. Libri has the most recent issues priced, and older ones free. One that is now free is vol 58 no. 2010) "Evaluating quality control of Wikipedia’s feature articles by David Lindsey." MORE >>

CNBC just posted a review of the top 10 companies now using Twitter. The list was compiled for CNBC by Ben Elowitz, CEO of the social media firm Wetpaint and author of the Digital Quarters blog. The criteria is based on financial measures Ben developed with with Charlene Li’s Altimeter Group , titled EngagementDB. Comcast : Cable guy goes social. MORE >>

Some ideas take a while to come to reality. Urban Signals is a New York-based company whose iPhone app notifies you when compatible singles are nearby and would like to meet. The iPhone app is free to download but requires a monthly subscription after the first month. Back in 2002 I wrote about proximity dating in my book Living Networks. MORE >>